[moparmatt]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Take some cool pictures of the Mayan Temples. Just becarefull, the natives may think you're stealing their souls.

really now, were all gonna be toast by 2012 anyway (as the Mayan calendar suggests)


uh oh, im caught as a lurker

[GFDuke]

Well unfortunately i din't have a full charge on my digital camera battery when i went there but i did manage a few with it.

I copied this info from the website........

The earliest date lifted from the site is A.D. 564 (the inscription on a stele) This places Tulum within the Classic period, though we know that its heyday was much later (1200 - 1521 A.D.) during the Late Post-classic period. Tulum was a major link in the Maya's extensive trade network. Both maritime and land routes converged here. Artifacts found in or near the site testify to contacts that ranged from Central Mexico to Central America and every place in between: copper rattles and rings from the Mexican highlands; flint and ceramics from all over the Yucatán jade and obsidian from Guatemala and more. The first Europeans to see Tulum were probably Juan de Grijalva and his men as they sailed reconnaissance along the Eastern coast of Yucatán in 1518. The Spaniards later returned to conquer the Peninsula unwittingly bringing Old World diseases which decimated the native population. And so Tulum, like so many cities before it, was abandoned to the elements.


I thought i'd throw one in of the wife and i on the beach at our resort. Pretty cool birds. lol

If anyones interested in the history of the ruins and more photos check out this link.
Mayan Ruins/Tulum, Mexico

[Witchdoctor]

Very cool stuff bro ... Looks like it was a blast .....

Not bad temps in the North East to come back to ....

Welcome home .... same old same old here ....

The Gulfies have invaded the bot, but I am sure you have already seen that

[Splave]

AWESOME, great pics duke. Must have been epic

[RomDominance]

Place hasn't aged a bit! Sorry, bad joke, but it looks the same as when I was there 10 yrs ago. Oh and btw, the Ferengi docs did a great job making you both look huuumaaan. How many strips of latinum did it take to get those birds to stay for the pic? Glad your back safe and had a great time old friend, you deserved the break.

[GFDuke]

Thanks guys. It was a fun time. Pic cost me 20 sticks of Latinum. I forgot to bring my camera when i went golfing. But for alll the golfers out there this is the course i played. its a Robert Trent Jones course and is actually scheduled for its Grand opening in May. The place was immaculate. I would eat scrambled eggs off the fairways. They were that tight. The bunkers were deep and soft. There were no fried egg shots. If you hit a bunker you were burried.
I had a fair round and shot a 87 from the whites. But still i felt i did good considering i never played it.
http://www.rivieramaya-golfclub.com/

PS the wife took some underwater pics with the waterproof camera while snorkeling in Xel-Ha and i'll get those up as soon as we get them back.

[ReverendMaynard]

great pics Duke. Nice to hear another golfer in the group 87 even from the white is impressive on a new course. I'll keep that place in mind when we book our next vacay.

[Kal-EL]

Very kool pics Duke, and you folks had a nice bit of sunshine there on a beautiful beach
Does it feel wierd walking around the ruins and knowing that a very long time ago people were being sacrificed to the sun god?

[ocgmj]

Great pics Dukester, Looks like you had a blast.

[GFDuke]

Yes it did Kal. I actually saw the tables where they did the sacrifices. A Very creepy/weird feeling comes about you.
This is where they did human sacrifices to the gods.