Monday, January 11, 2010

Featured Itinerary of the Week - Mexico DF Chiapas, Yucatan and Mayan Brook


This week, Witur user marilena2 takes us to beautiful and historical Mexico.  The itinerary starts in gorgeous Mexico City and Teotihuacan.  and moves on through Chiapas, San Cristobal de las Casas, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Pyramids, the Riviera Maya, and Cancun.  Each stage is full of rich descriptions of events and history, and the pictures are well worth looking at, even if you can't plan a trip to Mexico any time soon. For example, marilena2 says of San Juan Chamula:

We then went to San Juan Chamula: green mountains and red lands, corn and vegetation...This community hardly speaks Spanish. You must visit the church, of course with a local guide: you will see all sorts of figures, small statues with traditional clothes, before you join San Juan's sculpture. Amerindian are celebrating their rituals, with candles, incense, food and drinks. You must be very respectful, you can't take pictures and there are poeple constantly watching you. This community produces a very typical and beautiful handicrafts, you will find many young girls selling their creations. In the cemetery you will find a special amosphere: this people are used to spend time with their dead.


Just reading the story of marilena2's trip is fascinating.  To view the itinerary, click here.

1 comments:

Danine said...

I love Mexico and hope to get back some day. This itinerary looks interesting!

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