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Experience Your Own Prehispanic Adventure while Celebrating Spring

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Each year thousands of tourists from all over the world join local Yucatecans in the city of Chichén Itzá for a pre-Hispanic tradition that celebrates the beginning of the harvest season. Millions will surround the Castillo, or the Kukulkan pyramid, as they watch in amazement as the shadow of the serpent god Kukulcan slowly snakes its way down the main steps of the temple from March 20th to the 21st during the Spring Equinox.

Travelers should take advantage of their visit to learn about the accomplishments of the Maya as mathematicians and astronomers, and see how their temples poetically fuse their sciences, religion and philosophy.

This is best seen in the city of Chichén Itzá, where more than 30 buildings make the city a centerpiece of any pre-Hispanic adventure. The city was a large and important mercantile and ceremonial place that flourished during the Classic Period (300-900 A.D.). Around the year 1,000 A.D. however, the city was abandoned by the Maya and re-inhabited by the Toltecs. Because of this, while the central area features a pure Maya architectural style, the vivid decorations near the Sacred Ball Court show a combination of Maya-Toltec styles. Other must see are: the Observatory, El Caracol (The Snail) and the Temple of the Warriors.

Close to Chichén Itzá are the archaeological sites of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labna, all home to intricate and monumental ceremonial centers including the Uxmal’s Temple of the Magician and the Governor’s Palace (600 – 1,000 A.D.).

While traveling though the rainforests of the Yucatan, complete your jungle adventure by visiting the lush tropical environment in the Balankanche Caves, the entrance to rituals of the Mayan underworld; Río Lagartos National Park, a biosphere reserve sheltering sea turtles and North America’s largest nesting ground for Pink Flamingos; and Cenote Ik Kil, a sacred underground freshwater lake.

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