Chihuahua, Mexico
Trip through Chihuahua starting from Presidio, TX.
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Izamal YucatanThe Kinich Kak Moo Mayan pyramid 3DR SOLO Drone GoPro Hero 4 Silver HD 1080/60FPS
The Kinich Kak Moo pyramid is the most important, with a 200 by 200 meter base and a height is 34 meters. The building was dedicated to the Sun, a deity that came forth on a daily basis to collect its offerings, said to be seen in the form of a macaw of fire. To the southeast is another great pyramid called Itzamatul. The southwestern side of the main plaza is bordered by another pyramid known as Hun Pik Tok. The public space is closed by the Temple of the Kabul in the west.
Izamal (Spanish About this sound [isama'l] (help·info)) is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, 72 km (about 40 miles) east of state capital Mérida, in southern Mexico.
Izamal was continuously occupied throughout most of Mesoamerican chronology; in 2000, the city's estimated population was 15,000 people. Izamal is known in Yucatán as the Yellow City (most of its buildings are painted yellow) and the City of Hills (that actually are the remains of ancient temple pyramids).
Izamal is an important archaeological site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is probably the biggest city of the Northern Yucatec Plains, covering a minimal urban extension of 53 square kilometres (20 sq mi). Its monumental buildings exceed 1,000,000 cubic meters of constructive volume and at least two raised causeways, known by their Mayan term sacbeob, connect it with other important centers, Ruins of Ake, located 29 kilometres (18 mi) to the west and Kantunil, 18 kilometers to the south, evidencing the religious, political and economic power of this political unit over a territory of more than 5,000 square kilometres (1,900 sq mi) in extension. Izamal developed a particular constructive technique involving use of megalithic carved blocks, with defined architectonical characteristics like rounded corners, projected mouldings and thatched roofs at superstructures, which also appeared in other important urban centers within its hitherland, such as Ake, Uci and Dzilam. The city was founded during the Late Formative Period (750–200 BC) and was continuously occupied until the Spanish Conquest. The most important constructive activity stage spans between Protoclassic (200 BC – 200 AD) and Late Classic (600–800 AD). It was partially abandoned with the rise of Chichen Itza in the Terminal Classic (800–1000 A.D.) until the end of the Precolumbian era, when Izamal was considered a site of pilgrimages in the region, rivaled only by Chichen Itza. Its principal temples were sacred to the creator deity Itzamna and to the Sun god Kinich Ahau.
Pre-Columbian stucco head, 7 ft 8 in (2.3 m) high, as drawn by Catherwood
Five huge Pre-Columbian structures are still easily visible at Izamal (and two from some distance away in all directions). The first is a great pyramid to the Maya Sun god, Kinich Kak Moo (makaw of the solar fire face) with a base covering over 2 acres (8,000 m²) of ground and a volume of some 700,000 cubic meters. Atop this grand base is a pyramid of ten levels. To the south-east lies another great temple, called Itzamatul, and placed at the south of what was a main plaza, another huge building, called Ppap Hol Chak, was partially destroyed with the construction of a Franciscan temple during the 16th century. The south-west side of the plaza is partially limited by another pyramid, the Hun Pik Tok, and in the west lie the remains of the temple known as Kabul, where a great stucco mask still existed on one side as recently as the 1840s, and a drawing of it by Frederick Catherwood was published by John Lloyd Stephens. All these large man-made mounds probably were built up over several centuries and originally supported city palaces and temples. Other important residential buildings which have been restored and can be visited are Xtul (The Rabbit), Habuc and Chaltun Ha.
After more than a decade of archaeological work done by Mexican archaeologists at Izamal, over 163 archaeologically important structures have been found there, and thousands of residential structures at surrounding communities have been located.
Spanish Colonial era[edit]
After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán in the 16th century a Spanish colonial city was founded atop the existing Maya one; however it was decided that it would take a prohibitively large amount of work to level these two huge structures and so the Spanish contented themselves with placing a small Christian temple atop the great pyramid and building a large Franciscan Monastery atop the acropolis. It was named after San Antonio de Padua. Completed in 1561, the open atrium of the Monastery is still today second in size only to that at the Vatican. Most of the cut stone from the Pre-Columbian city was reused to build the Spanish churches, monastery, and surrounding buildings.
Izamal was the first chair of the Bishops of Yucatán before they were moved to Mérida. The fourth Bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa lived here.
Spanish Wells new Hotel/restraunt/bar
Planet Kapow 09 : Chihuahua to Posada Barrancas
AND THEN: a sleep like death, a sleep of nothing but sweet engulfing darkness.
We awoke to find ourselves in the city of Chihuahua, a few hours northwest, sore to the bone and hungry as we'd never been hungry before. Chihuahua was a big shaggy dog of a city, impossible to dislike despite the constant sounds of fucking wafting into our cheap hotel room from the pay-by-the-hour rooms down the hall.
The San Juan Hotel had its faults, certainly, but what it also had was a fantastically shitty dive bar attached to it, the place where everybody in town met up over a couple of 40oz bottles of beer to start the night before drunkenly staggering to their cars and heading off to the next shitty bar. Which, from a traveling point of view, is exactly what you want in a bar that's literally outside your door - everyone happy and excited, psyched for the night ahead, dressed up and made up and at the exact point of drunkenness at which it seems like inviting to your table two sleepy-eyed white dudes who don't speak your language terribly well is a really great idea.
We spent a couple of days in Chihuahua, wandering the wide avenues of a town that just oozes good vibes and fun times. And history, too - the place has figured in most of the major events in Mexico's history, and the chubby-faced bandit-turned-hero-general Pancho Villa practically has a cult here. Dude invaded the US just for the fun of it back in his heyday. But Copper Canyon beckoned, and we boarded a mariachi-filled bus to Creel, where we planned to catch the train through the canyon to the coast.
Creel had a bit of backpacker life, and it was nice to talk to a few travelers for the first time since La Paz, but really it was a bit of a one-trick pony, its bars shutting too early and its hostels pushing far too hard on the guided tour garbage. But its one trick was a stunner: Creel was surrounded by beautiful yellow fields dotted with weird rock formations and Raramuri villages and lakes and lonely churches on dirt roads. From the back of a bicycle it was perfect, though the thirty kilometres of pedaling did nothing for legs still ravaged from that walk through the Chihuahuan wilderness. But a bicycle and a wide blue sky and an empty road: this is a great thing.
So we rolled from the Valley of the Erect Penises to the Valley of the Frogs to the Valley of the Mushrooms; and then we boarded one of the last trains left in Mexico - the Transferril Chihuahua Pacifico - to Posada Barrancas, on the edge of the canyon.
It's too immense to put into words; too immense to take in, even when you're there, staring directly into it. Especially when there are hummingbirds darting out from it, over your head, hovering and disappearing, and local villagers descending into it, completing the daily six-hour trek out of and back into the canyon, just to attend school. You can reel off figures of size and depth, but nothing compares to the staggering feeling of trying to look at something that's just too big to look at.
We'd heard talk of a cablecar at the canyon, just little bits here and there, nothing concrete. It was new, we knew that much. We eventually caught sight of it after rounding a headland and spent the next few hours marching through the scrub to find it, mystified as to the lack of signage. But there was good reason - it was brand spanking new, and hadn't even opened yet. The cable stretched for six kilometres directly across the canyon, and, even better, there was now a zipline traversing the entire canyon as well.
But we were a week too early. The cable cars were running, but they were empty, just beta testing. We got talking to the American engineer who was heading the project, an affable guy who told us all the ins and outs of the design, the two of us nodding our heads over-enthusiastically, throwing questions at him, trying to steer the conversation in the direction we wanted, until -
So... I said.
So... Adam said.
The engineer looked at us.
So now you're testing the cars, right? I asked.
The engineer nodded.
Do you maybe need people to test the cars? ventured Adam.
The engineer smiled, and our hearts leapt.
No.
Four tracks in this video - the first is the mariachi classic Camino Real de Colima by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, off the Viva Mexico y sus Canciones compilation; the second is a recording of the mariachi band that played on our Creel-bound bus; the third is No Hay Nada Mas from Mos Def's career-best The Ecstatic album; and the last is the traditional Arboles de las Barrancas, here performed out of the blue by Texan garage-rock scumbags Black Lips, from the Rudo y Cursi soundtrack.
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