Chichén -Itzà
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Hello Traveler Friend! The photos you'll find on this page were taken by us, so you won't find some monuments in the archaeological site of Chichén-Itzà here. That's because , as we explained in our travelogue, we have not been able to visit many things. The same goes for descriptions: since we had to document ourselves on the internet , we have left out the things we have not seen; you will agree with us that it would have been quite pathetic to insert, for example, descriptions of the interior of the temples, when we were not allowed to enter. For the same reason, we preferred not to tell historical facts in detail: we'll tell what we have seen and what we have learned "on the field", not what we've found online.
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The Kukulkan pyramid is also known as El Castillo. It is the main monument of the Chichén Itzá site , in fact it is the first building that you see when arriving. This temple, built by the Maya between the 9th and 12th century, is dedicated to the god Kukulkan ("god-feathered snake").
The pyramid consists of a series of square terraces and stairways on all four sides, which reach the top of the building. On the sides of the north balustrade, sculptures of plumed serpents have been built. Each side of the temple has 91 steps, for a total of 364 (number of days in the year).
The Temple of the Warriors is a great one stepped pyramid , with rows of columns on the sides depicting warriors.
At the top of the pyramid, indicating the entrance to the temple, There is a Chac Mool statue, once used as an altar for sacrifices.
The square surrounded by pillars is called "The big market".
The ball game field of the archaeological site of Chichén-Itzà is the largest in the whole Central America, 166 meters long and 68 meters wide. The surrounding walls are 12 meters high. Some stone rings with carved figures of intertwined snakes are hung on them.
The internal base of the walls is oblique, and bas-reliefs representing the teams of the participants in the game are carved on it.
On the south side of the playing field there is a ruined temple while, continuing the east wall, we find the Temple of the Jaguar. On either side of the entrance to the camp there are two columns on which you can find the feathered snake .
The Sacred Cenote is also known as the "Sacrifice Well". Here, in the pre-Columbian age, human beings were sacrificed to the Mayan rain god Chaac, as well as objects, weapons and trinkets. On the seabed, during the early 1900s, gold, ceramic and jade artifacts were found, and obviously human remains with wounds compatible with the act of sacrifice.
 Cenote Sagrado |  Warriors Temple |  Kukulkan Pyramid |
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 Feathered Snake |  The Thousand Columns |  Us under the Pyramid |
 Varanus |  Tlachtli |  Kukulkan Pyramid |