Yucatan Peninsula - (09. - 19. Aug. 2002): (The Yucatan Peninsula is a state of Mexico – and positioned at the Caribbean sea also as on the golf of Mexico and close to the Cuba island. The city Cancun is famous for beach holidays for US-tourists. And the city Merida (more in the middle of the peninsula) is its state-capital, artificially build by the Spanish conquestors – so the whole city is still colonial-stylish. Yucatan is very flat, very hot climate zone and covered by jungle, though the trees are only 15 m high, because the soil of chalk is not supporting bigger plants. Yucatan was the main-area of the Maya-reign before the Aztecs occupied it. And just short after that the conquestor came. Early Maya-buildings are dated about 600 BC. ):

Mexico City	Chichen Iza 1	pyramid	me on pyramid
me on pyramid	Jaguar-throne	serpent-head	me next to snake
jaguar temple	jaguar temple	ornaments	ornament walls
other pyramid	nurse house 1	sacred well	warrior-temple
human sacrifices	ball court	north-temple	skull wall
the church	round tower	facade	Uxmal
Uxmal pyramid	Uxmal pyramid 2	Uxmal plaza	front of snake-wall
lizard	temple	temple closer	Uxmal at fog
Sayil	me at Sayil	Labna	Chaac temple
Chaac wall	statues	relief stele	pink flamingos
pink flamingos 2	weird birds	mangrove	sweet well
Merida	Tequila cactus	main plaza	palm huts
from plane