Your Ultimate Guide to Ancient Maya Temples
This post “The Maya Calendar” is an excerpt of the second edition of my book “The Maya Sites – Hidden Treasures of the Rain Forest”, a travel guide to the most important Maya sites on the Yucatán peninsula – in México and Guatemala. The second edition will be published as print and ebook in spring … Read more
This article about the book The Ancient Maya by Robert J. Sharer and Loa P. Traxler, is the first one of a series of articles about Maya books that I plan to publish during the next months. Obviously, with 931 pages and a shipping weight of 3.5 pound, this is not the book you easily … Read more
Here you find more than 100 rare and famous travel quotes and sayings for your inspiration. ————————— Have a plan and stick to it.Heinrich Harrer The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world. – Alexander von Humboldt Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop For my part, I travel not … Read more
On the second part of the trip we are leaving the main tourist areas. The area becomes more “exotic” from here on. Most sites were founded during the preclassic area of the ancient Maya civilization. Many of the Maya monuments that you will see on this tour can easily be older than 2000 years. Edzná … Read more
The third and last chapter of this article will guide you deep in the pre-classic period of the Mayan history. We leave México now and cross the border to Guatemala. In the second chapter we watched the Maya sites in Chiapas.The last station was Palenque. And here in Palenque I begin. Flores and the Lago … Read more
Mayapan is a historic site of the Maya in the northwest of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is considered to be the last big Mayan town in the history of ancient Mayan civilization. Mayapan was actually the capital of the Maya in Yucatán for a period of about 200 years. The ruins are located about 40 … Read more
Ixchel was the goddess of fertility of the ancient Mayas. She was associated with several different attributes like the moon, water, child birth or the rain bow. She was one of several Jaguar Gods to which the ancient Mayas did worship to. An image of the Dresden Codex shows an old woman with claws instead … Read more
This article is about the La Venta Museum Park in Villahermosa. La Venta was one of the main ceremonial centers of the Olmecs who are believed to be the ancestors of the Mayan culture. La Venta itself was located on an Island in a swampy area beside the river Tonalá near the Golf of México. Due to the construction of an … Read more
Yaxchilan is a Maya site in Chiapas in the south of México, located directly at the south bank of the Rio Usumacinta, that is todays natural frontier between Guatemala and México. The known history shows that Yaxchilan was settled from 359 AC to ~800 AC. A range from the pre-classic to the classic period. There have been … Read more
The highest Maya pyramids and the largest Maya city ever detected, El Mirador in Guatemala is not only a site full of superlatives. It is the most adventurous travel destination for people interested in the ancient culture of the Maya. El Mirador – A Real Treasure Hidden in the Rain Forest No streets, just mule trails … Read more