beach in front of the hotel

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our favorite restaurant at breakfast

eggs or waffles anyone?

waiting for our tour at Isla Mujeres

our party boat hosts on the way back from Isla Mujeres

they're proud of their Mexican flag; it's huge!

saddling up for the zip line

yup, from here to there. This is the easy one

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The big zip line tower

yup, we came back from there

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underground ponds and streams (cenotes)

on the way to the Mayan purification ceremony; you can see candles in the back

one of the cenotes, the roof fell in a long time ago

after our Mayan lunch

a bouquet gift from the Mayan shaman

Market in a Mayan village

another cenote (sinkhole)

a stop in a Mayan village on the way to Chitchen Itza

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Chitchen Itza, a smaller pyramid

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our tour group

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a detail from a larger structure

a plant that grows on the trunk of the trees, red bloom

in front of the observatory

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the old observatory

an example of how they built bigger pyramids over the old ones, the curved corner on the left is an older structure

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1,000 year old wood

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El Capitan (the biggest structure in the complex)

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at the top looking down

a good view of the Yucatan Peninsula; one big jungle out there, totally flat

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