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Post #39 December 30, 2018 * Yucatan flag MEXICO Merida, Yucatan (week 3) * Mayan Flag * Uxmal Mayan ruins from the 7th - 10th Century Similar to Chichén Itzá, but even better with all of the vegetation around the site and far less crowded.  UNESCO  site added March 30, 2015 Still smiling after hiking up the 72 stairs to the top * On the way to Uxmal we stopped at a Cenote  (sink hole) which was created in the underground limestone by a meteor that landed in the area There are over 2000 cenotes in the Yucatan  66 million years ago, after a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid  crashed into the ocean near what’s now the port town of Chicxulub, Mexico. The  impact brought the age of dinosaurs to an abrupt end , wiping out the vast majority of the iconic beasts along with about three-quarters of all life on Earth. All around the Yucatan...

Post #38 December 24, 2018 * MEXICO Merida, Yucatan (week 1 & 2) * The Yucatan Peninsula  encompasses 3 Mexican states,  Yucatan, Quintana  Roo  and Campeche & separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea * Holidays  in Merida “árbol de Navidad” (Christmas tree) by  Roger Allen Mosser Original colored pencil & graphite on paper,  drawing  inspired by Mayan artwork in the Yucatan   Wishing you and yours  the H appiest of Holidays,   Roger & Ron * The boys, channeling Holiday lights at the clothes line * Cathedral Ildefonso dressed up for the holidays * Passing by a neighbor's house,  shutters open More neighbors Coca-Cola trucks all lit up Coca-Cola is the other water in Mexico Dancers from  Guatemala at the Zocalo ...