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Tour Days Every Day of the Week Duration Full Day Price From ? $ Country Mexico Departure from Merida Trip Style Mayan Ruins and Nature Activities Hiking, Mayan Ruins Physical Demand Easy Season Year Round - Tour Information
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The Tour
A guided visit to the Mayan site of Uxmal and Kabah takes you along two amazing sites along the Puuc route.
Puuc means "hilly country," and is the name given to the hills nearby and the predominant style of ancient architecture found here.
Lunch will be enjoyed in the Mision Uxmal hotel.
09:00 to 16:00 hrs
Includes: A/C ground transportation, officially licensed bilingual guide, entrance fees, lunch in Mision Uxmal.
Doesn’t include: any other meals, beverages and drinks nor tips for guide and driver.
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Uxmal
Uxmal is one of the greatest Mayan ceremonial centers, all the buildings are beautifully carved and decorated. You will admire the pyramid of the Magician, Quadrangle of the Nuns, the Governor’s Palace.
Uxmal is considered one of the most beautiful pre-Hispanic archaeological sites on the American Continent, due to the proportion of its majestic constructions decorated with fine relief’s, whose precision and elegance astonish us today.
At 35 m (115 ft), the massive Magician's Pyramid (Pirámide del Adivino) is the tallest structure at Uxmal. The pyramid is also known as the Pyramid of the Dwarf; both names derive from a legend about a magical dwarf who was hatched from an egg, grew to adulthood in a single day, and built this pyramid in one night. Actually, it was begun in the 6th century AD and regularly expanded through the 10th century.
The pyramid is unique among Mayan structures because of its rounded sides, height, and steepness, and the doorway on the opposite (west) side near the top. Its limestone core was originally covered with smooth plaster and painted red with accents in blue, yellow and black. Beneath the Magician's Pyramid are five earlier structures; it was common for the Mayas to build new structures on top of old ones at regular intervals.
Magician's Pyramid
At 35 m (115 ft), the massive Magician's Pyramid (Pirámide del Adivino) is the tallest structure at Uxmal. The pyramid is also known as the Pyramid of the Dwarf; both names derive from a legend about a magical dwarf who was hatched from an egg, grew to adulthood in a single day, and built this pyramid in one night. Actually, it was begun in the 6th century AD and regularly expanded through the 10th century.
The pyramid is unique among Mayan structures because of its rounded sides, height, and steepness, and the doorway on the opposite (west) side near the top. Its limestone core was originally covered with smooth plaster and painted red with accents in blue, yellow and black. Beneath the Magician's Pyramid are five earlier structures; it was common for the Mayas to build new structures on top of old ones at regular intervals.
Kabah
Kabah is a Mayan site on the Yucatán Peninsula connected to nearby Uxmal by a ceremonial causeway, a raised pedestrian walkway 5 meters wide with ceremonial arches at each end.
Kabah is best known for its extraordinary palace that is completely covered in masks of the hook-nosed rain god Chac.This massive repetition of a single set of elements is unusual in Maya art and makes for an impressive sight.
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