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Friday Afternoon: Chichen Itza
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Like Uxmal, this is a big tourist site and has a big entrance sign.
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Unlike any place else we have been so far, this site has vendors -- miles of them.
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Lots of folks walking around. It is still a couple weeks before high season.
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Famous ball court. It has a little building at one end of its long playing field.
The camera is looking into the open mouth of a serpent. (We'll see him again.)
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The “press box” above the ball court.
I believe it was not centered along the side, but toward one end of the court.
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Hoop of ball court
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Ball court again. See the shadow of the hoop?
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At the far end of the ball court, this is the other end of that snake we saw before.
A snake with a head at each end!
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We've left the ball court.
Skull wall. Not really skulls, just carved stone.
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Where’s Joe?
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Another serpent with its mouth open,
and a tongue? hanging out; this one coming down the stairs.
They won’t let you climb this pyramid.
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It was hot. We appreciated the shade.
Temple of the Warriors in the background.
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Up close at the Temple of the Warriors all you can see are the pillars.
This is a late Maya city, when it was a more pugnacious society.
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Each pillar has a warrior carved on it; hence the name given to this building.
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Next, Sat morn