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Friday Afternoon: Chichen Itza

↓ 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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41 people

↓ 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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68 individual pillar

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