The state of Campeche, a jewel hidden from Yucatan, Guatemala and Chiapas
In traditional tour of the Yucatan peninsula, the state of Campeche is, if goes well, flown over by plane or crossing by bus to reach the Chiapas or Guatemala. This region offers unexpected beauty, starting from the capital of the state.
Campeche is a sonnacchiosa as beautiful colonial town, protected by UNESCO, where you can admire, among other things, the archaeological museum housed in the Fort San Miguel. This small building exhibits treasures found in Maya sites in the area, one of the most important and unexplored in the country. The large collection of jade masks and video installations and explain the attractiveness tourists to visit Calakmul, the capital call in the Mayan language “snake head”.
Calakmul is a magical place, within a nature reserve, over 70 square meters of buildings swallowed up by jungle and the visit is often accompanied by flocks of urlatrici monkeys and other animal species, we recommend that you go at dawn for fans of Bird watching.
And the show that he enjoys from over 45 meters of the Great Pyramid is impressive, forest as the eye can see interrupted only from the tip of other pyramids that interrupt the majesty of this “green sea”. The excavations are still underway and the findings impressive: a tunnel 20 meters long decorated with a bas color in a pyramid that dates from 450 cristo forward for the time being the oldest in the area.
Tags: Archaeology, Mexico