A university student in Memphis poses the question: Did the Ancient Maya have extraterrestrial help to achieve their civilization? Ever since I was a child wondering at the night sky, I have hoped and wished to see a UFO. I … Continue reading
A four- to five-hour trek by road and a one-hour speedboat ride down the broad Usumacinta (which forms here the border between Mexico and Guatemala) brings the intrepid traveler to the riverbank-city-ruin of Yaxchilan, strategically located on a forested oxbow-peninsula, … Continue reading
Visitors to Palenque can spend days bedazzled by the many ancient buildings in various states of picturesque decay and reconstruction. Set on a jungled hillside overlooking the plains of Chiapas and Tabasco to the north, the ruined city is sometimes … Continue reading
Teotihuacan is pretty convenient to Mexico City. A short bus-ride from the Bus terminal Norte, for 36 Pesos, and the ticket seller gave me my first lesson (on this trip) in caveat emptor: “The bus leaves in three minutes,” he … Continue reading
Dazzling churches! Frida & Diego! Great cuisine! Pyramids! Sublime sculpture! Hieroglyphs! Mysteries! Howler Monkeys! Dawn chorus of a million birds! Dark, vaulted chambers, stone walls sweating, ceilings hung with bats! Leafcutter ants! Army ants! Biting ants! Stinging ants! Malarial mosquitoes! … Continue reading
1 June 2011 Tomorrow I set off with two friends for Mexico City. For twelve days, we journey slowly across southern Mexico, eastward, toward what the Aztecs called “The Land of the Red and the Black”… For the Aztecs, these … Continue reading
