Betty Brewer
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ArdraF said:Tell Terry he's taking a huge risk.
Ardra,
You would just die to see what he eats off the street vendor carts.
Betty
ArdraF said:Tell Terry he's taking a huge risk.
You would just die to see what he eats off the street vendor carts.
Betty Brewer said:February 10, 2008
Chichen-Itza
Today we toured the ruins of Chichen-Itza.<snip>
One thing that many "gringos" do not know is that the correct pronunciation is Chich?n Itz? (that is to say, the accent is on the second syllable in each instance). We found that arriving at the "new" CI at its opening hour allowed us to miss the tour bus cadre, and when those folks arrived, we went to the old CI, with no tour bus people obscuring every view. Plan ahead is the rule of the day!
Jim Dick said:Decided the trip wasn't worth the cost if we couldn't see Chichen-Itza. Thanks for the photos At least we now know what some of it looks like.
sptrain98 said:We found that arriving at the "new" CI at its opening hour allowed us to miss the tour bus cadre, and when those folks arrived, we went to the old CI, with no tour bus people obscuring every view. Plan ahead is the rule of the day!
Betty Brewer said:Jim,
A good call on your part to cancel I think. Chichen-Itza is NOT to be missed. We did go early, right when they opened and avoided the throngs of tour busses. The people I got in my photos were from our group and I wanted to show their faces to friends and family following along. It is a big place and was relativlely uncrowded until busses arrived. The only down side to going early is that not all of the vendors were set up. But by mid day we had a huge selection of souvenir stuff from which to choose.
vlady daddy said:I enjoyed following your Yucatan/Mexican 2008 journal and plotting Terry?s Datastormsuser.com coordinates for future reference. After 1,900 miles from the border of Texas to Cancun, 10 RV parks later and 21 of 46 days gone by, I have not heard of your caravan playing the Mexican Train Game.Did you get the official rules to the Mexican Train Game from the locals?
Hi Sue,suecarrier said:hey! trip well deserved, enjoy love ya's sis/sue carr