Yes, this is where Logan spent most of his time... I'm sure in time this would become boring, can't imagine when that would be, but I'm told it would be.
I'm fine with living like this for awhile, a long while.
Thursday was our excursion day. Our taxi driver, Alejandro Raul Chan Pacheco, picked us up promptly at 8 am and we headed in-land for a tour of Coba.
This is what most people come to do and see, climb the steps of Nohach Mul.
This structure is the tallest in the Yucantan Peninsula at 138 feet tall.
At the top.
The white arrow is pointing to the round building called the observatory and in the far far distance is the lake, Macanxoc, which the ruins surrounds. We walked almost all of Coba, although at one point we hired a taxi to take us back to a fork in the pathway. The Taxi is really was a bike that had a seat for
two on the front of it.
A view looking down the steps. No, I did not take this picture, I'm sure I would have tumbled down those steps if I had. The rope in the middle of the steps is helpful in climbing up the steps, but not so in climbing down. Most people scoot down on their bums, Logan grabbed my hand and I felt I was holding on pretty tight and we walked down the steps...ever so slowly. At one point some girls who were scooting their way down asked me how I could be going down the steps without the rope, Logan told them he was my rope. One of the girls replied "AHHH, that is the most romantic thing I've heard", and so it is, he is my rope. Love him. I wanted to say to death, but honestly, that could have happened going down these steps.
Okay, I have an issue with these Mayan ball courts. We've seen three of them, similar look, two sloped slides, a ring in the top center, but they are all different in length, height, space between the sloped formations. They say the Mayan's play a game of hip ball, shooting the ball through the ring at the top, the losing team being beheaded. Really?
I think it's the Mayan form of Blunko, and someone stands at the stop and drops a disk down the side or tosses it into the center ring. Better yet, they tie a rope through the center ring and run back and forth for some unknown reason.
The backside of the ball court, or the consession stand.
More of the ruins.
Loved the pathway. We arrived early enough the crowds weren't there yet and I'm happy I took this picture when I did, cause a short time later the crowds were forming and there were people everywhere.
I can't wait till someone comes up with some type of hologram that depicts what took place in everyday life while you're passing through an area. They say Coba had 55,000 people in it.
This is the observatory which you can see the tip of from the top of Nohoch Mul.
Just a cool looking tree root.
We were in Coba three hours and hot and tired. There are some nearby cenotes that are a relief from the heat. This one you get to through a hole in the ground and descend...well a long ways down a stairway. They have it lit with lights so you can see the blue blue water.
Our escort, Alejandro who watched over our things and took the blurry picture above standing near the entrance to the cenote.
I was fascinated by the huts these people live in. I was noticing while driving out of the little town of Coba that it looks as if the goverment is putting in block housing for these people, they're stylish not just a concrete box. And I remember on one of our Alltournative excursions they talked about some of the money raised going to the Mayan people to help build block houses so they had a place of protection from the hurricanes and storms.
But what was interesting is that next to every block house, was a house made of twigs, which appears where they preferred to live. The twigs offer privacy yet let the breeze flow through, unlike the cinderblock houses that just heat up during the day.
Today is our last full day here, the winds have calmed down finally
and the sea looks more inviting than ever.
