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Horchata is my favourite but if you see resbaladera on a menu you should try that too (similar, but made from barley).
6 years agoProof of black coffee!
6 years agoSure, where “always” equals, some crazy when! I still maintain this is like mom’s claim to have never liked smoked meat...
6 years agoWow! Your experience of Chichén Itzá is very different that what I remember from 1983. I don't recall any souvenir or other stalls and I'm not sure there were any visitor services at all.
I was most interested in visiting this site and its cenote (the main reason I went to Mexico) because, as a teenager, I read every book I could find by Richard Halliburton. In "His Story of His Life's Adventures," which is mostly a collection of his letters to his parents, you find the following from July 1928:
"The ruins at Chichen-Itza grew on me. They're so extraordinary and so bursting with romantic history. The Mayas' form of sacrifice when they needed rain was to throw maidens into the Sacred Well to appease the rain god who dwelt at the bottom of it... I got the idea that it would be interesting to jump in myself, imagining that I was a warrior selected to jump as the bride was cast in... I jumped. It was a thrill as I was dropping into the silent water. The only inconvenience was getting out."
There's more, in his book "New Worlds to Conquer." He jumped in a second time to rescue his boots that he'd had to leave on a ledge near the bottom to climb out. However, this time his leap was recorded by a photographer.
Jacquie
Hope the ride goes well!
6 years agoNo problems with Occupational Health and Safety there!
MIKE
Correct
6 years agoThey gotta paint those walls!
6 years agoAfter studying its head scalation, it is definitely not a kingsnake. The large flattened rostral (nose) scale leads me to believe it is a burrowing snake. I found nothing in any Mexico or Yucatan snake lists that has such head scalation. I am stumped. Perhaps it is a rare specimen, or even a newly to be discovered species? I could be totally wrong, but on the fringe chance that it is, if possible, you should submit your photo to some Mexican snake authority to find out for sure.
6 years agoMom refused to even go up, although it was knees rather than fear that stopped her.
6 years agoI’m impressed you made it back down, I think my fear of heights would have done me in.
6 years agoI think this is a flamboyant tree. If it is they have bright red flowers in another season.
6 years agoDon't brush against those Bougainvillea! The thorns not only scratch, but for me, they leave a rash for hours.
6 years agoIf you ask, they might be able to get one made that says Los Grampies!
6 years ago
That’s great! Does it have recipes too?
6 years ago