While our two fresh married Daniela and Patrick are
burning in the sun of Tahiti, swimming with dolphins,
turtle and sharks, we are getting in my brand new Ferrari
to go to Tulum, the maya citie 130 km in the south of
Cancun.
The "Wall" city of the maya is not comparable
with the impressionant Chichen Itza monument but it
has its own charms that make this place worth to see.We
passed the door that brings us behind the wall that
once protect the city from three side, the 4 th side
is a natural rock barrier from the see side.
This walls also dissociate the administrativ and ceremonial
zone from the residencial one.
Like most of the mayan site there is no exact explication
of the different signification of the monument and when
you listen to two different guide you will notice that
they says (sometimes) two different things. But for
Tulum it may not be so important because the impression
that here stay is not the beauty of the monument or
fact of historic suposition but the fantastic location.
We traversed the ruins guarded by this big leguane.
Sometime you can t realy see them until they move because
they fit so good in the sets ! The funny is that they
don t move until you are about 1 or 2 m close to them.
Then they begin to run... I realy like this kinds of
animals, they just let me remember of the lezards I
had when I was a kid. At this time I just dreamed to
have a big one like that and go everywhere with it.
A nightmare for my mother. But now my mother is posing
with this big one without fear.
We arrive at the Templo del Dios del Viento
(Temple of the Wind Gods) probably the best
place to admirate the site. On the right the monuments
with at the top El Castillo and just in front of it
the exotic bombastic blue Caribbean see. That s great
! Like tousend of tourist before us we can resist and
shot the remember picture of this place at this point
of view. That s the picture you can see on the top of
the page. Well something we don t realize here is that
the site was painted with red, blue and white colors,
today only few rest of the pigment can be seen in some
of the walls. Imagine how it could have been in this
500 to 600 people city. Maybie I have to make a 3d set
of the place or one Matte painting one day to simulate
the site in the past.
Well after this beautifull panorama we continue to get
to El Castillo the most elevate monument
here. We pass the Templo del Dios Descendente (Temple
of the Descending God), named gived because a plaster
figure descending from above. What that symbolize is
again depending on the interpretation and before saying
some stupid thing that will be controverses by some
people, I pass to go the the interesting part of the
Temples: the frescos. In one of the Temple they are
well preserved and scenes of gods such as (CHAK the
rain god) and various female divinities performing rites
among bean like vegetation can be seen.
Finaly before we rich the exit we pass to the square
at the center of the city. Then we walk out trying to
find a quiter place to swimm than this that exit inside
the site, and after 10 minutes of walk on this road
hit by the heavy sunlight we arrived in a beach with
some cabanas and a restaurant. Okay there was no electricity
at the moment we arrived but they manage to served welcome
cold drinks and some stuff to eat.
Then we get to the beach, swimmed in this Caribbean
see of my dream. The people on the beach where backpacker
and hippies. More relax, quitter and typical this place
is great for hanging on a hamac at 10 m from the see.
Going back to the car we saw a lot of different colored
birds, from yellow to a big blue...
We get back home with my Bettle and the girls buy some
stuff in souvenir shops allong the street. Karina figure
out how to handle with this the Mexican who just try
to sell they stuff for the dobble price. The night came
and we arrived back in the crowded city of Cancun where
the american nightlife will started again. |
