How We Spent our Christmas Vacation

Uxmal

Uxmal is arguably the most impressive restored ruin in the northern Yucatan, its only serious rival is Chichen Itza. Both of these ruins are fantastic. The spacious layout of the building sites and open plaza type areas surrounding the structures, give Uxmal the feeling of grandeur it keeps one thousand years later. To have the opportunity to roam around this ceremonial center is a once in a lifetime experience, lucky those people who can do it more than once.

This view from the Great Pyramid shows the Nunnery Quadrangle to the left, The House of the Magician center and the Palace of the Governor to the right.

The Nunnery Quadrangle is composed of four buildings surrounding a large courtyard. Each building was constructed at a different time, is a different size and has a different level of decorative detail. This view is looking over the South Building toward the Great Pyramid and the Palace of the Governors.

This wonderful detail shows a serpent form over the mosaic-stone pattern on the facade of the west Building in the Nunnery Quadrangle. The West Building is the richest in decoration of the four buildings in the Nunnery.

If you would like to see additional photographs of the increadible site, go to Uxmal 2.

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