Mexico - Tulum

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Una vista de Tulum frente a las costas del hermoso mar Caribe Mexicano.

Tulum is the site of a Pre-Columbian Maya walled city serving as a major port for Cobá. The ruins are situated on 12-meter tall cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Tulum was one of the last cities inhabited and built by the Mayans, it was at its height between the 13th and 15th centuries and managed to survive about 70 years after the Spanish began occupying Mexico. Old World diseases brought by the Spanish settlers appear to have been the cause of its demise. One of the best-preserved coastal Maya sites.

 Mexico - Tulum

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Tulum, es la más grande construcción Maya en la costa. Ubicado en Quintana Roo, México.

Templo Dios del Viento (God of Winds Temple) guarding Tulum's sea entrance bay

 Mexico - Xel-Há

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Vista aérea de la Laguna Xel-há

Xel-Há is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located on the eastern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, state of Quintana Roo. The etymology of the site's name comes from Yukatek Maya, combining the roots xel ("spring") and ha' ("water").

Xel-Ha Park is a commercial aquatic theme park and self-described ecotourism development located on the Caribbean coast. The park is named after the site of Xelha, the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, part of which is located within the lands leased to the park. 

The Maya site of Tulum is nearby, some 13 km to the south.

 Mexico - Playa del Carmen

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Playacar, un mundo de belleza y fantasía

 Mexico - Chichén Itzá

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Kukulkan

The Maya name "Chichen Itza" means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza." This derives from chi', meaning "mouth" or "edge", and ch'en or ch'e'en, meaning "well." Itzá is the name of an ethnic-lineage group that gained political and economic dominance of the northern peninsula.

Chichen Itza was one of the largest Maya cities, with the relatively densely clustered architecture of the site core covering an area of at least 5 square kilometres.

El Castillo (Spanish for "castle"), also known as the Temple of Kukulkan, is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries CE, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity closely related to the god Quetzalcoatl known to the Aztecs and other central Mexican cultures of the Postclassic period.

 Mexico - Chichén Itzá

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

El Castillo, Chac Mool, El Observatorio

El Castillo: Dominating the North Platform of Chichen Itza is the Temple of Kukulkan (a Maya feathered serpent deity similar to the Aztec Quetzalcoatl), usually referred to as El Castillo.

Chac Mool: is the name given to a type of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone statue. It depicts a human figure in a position of reclining with the head up and turned to one side, holding a tray over the stomach. The meaning of the position or the statue itself remains unknown.

El Observatorio: or "El Caracol" ("The Snail") is located to the north of Las Monjas. It is a round building on a large square platform. It gets its name from the stone spiral staircase inside. The structure, with its unusual placement on the platform and its round shape, is theorized to have been a proto-observatory with doors and windows aligned to astronomical events, specifically around the path of Venus as it traverses the heavens.

 Mexico - Riviera Maya

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Puerto Aventuras

Mexico - Riviera Maya

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Puerto Aventuras

 Mexico - Riviera Maya

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Riviera Maya

 Mexico - Riviera Maya

Holidays with Friends, August 2007

Di, Luis, Isa e Zé

Riviera Maya - 4 Tocadores

Mariachi is the best known form of folk music from Mexico. The name refers to the music, the musicians and the band/orchestras that play it. Mariachi began as a regional folk style called “Son Jaliscience” in the center west of Mexico originally played only with string instruments and musicians dressed in the white pants and shirts of peasant farmers. From the 19th into the 20th century, migrations from rural areas into cities such as Guadalajara and Mexico City, along with Mexican government’s cultural promotion gradually changed this Son style, with its alternate name of “mariachi” becoming used for the “urban” form.

 Morocco - Marrakech

Rui F. - Morocco - 02.04.2007

Marrakech - Muraille

Marrakech est entourée par une muraille couronnée par des tours s'étendant sur 19 kilomètres de long. Elles sont faites de pisé et ont une couleur rougeâtre caractéristique des bâtiments de cette ville. Les plus belles parties sont celles du quartier d'Hivernage et le souk de Bab-el-Khemis. Sur le chemin, vous trouverez également le magnifique jardin de l'Agdal.

 Hungary - Budapest

Travel with Su to Budapeste and Vienna - February 2007

Tabáni Terasz - Restaurant