Simply stunning. Pictures can’t really capture it, and nowhere near enough room to give you a guided tour. Instead, a few photos interspersed with some interesting random thoughts from Raphael, our guide.
Oops – not sure what happened here. Some might say “simply gorgeous” – others may beg to differ ….
This one is intended to remind me to tell you that if you clap your hands right in front of the steps, the echo resembles the sound of a bird. Amazing but true.
Just to maintain the standards ..
Here is the arena for the famous Mayan game. Aim is to get a 2-3kg ball through the high hoop. 7 players per team, and no hands allowed. Games took between 1 and 5 days and the scorer of the winning goal was executed (seen as a real honour apparently).
This one shows the slight incline in the wall of the arena. It means that when you clap it is echoed 7 times – true. So generated an even better atmosphere.
This is a wall depicting skulls – not real ones but presumably showing those who were executed.
This one reminds me about wheels. Apparently they were well aware of wheels and have been shown on children’s toys, but can’t be used by grown ups for work because it would be disrespectful of the sun god. So all the rocks to build the temples were dragged by hand.
And they predicted the sun and planets all lined up in 2012 – eat your heart out Galileo and Copernicus – and others!
Looks like an observatory – mainly because it was.
The University.
