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Mexico has widely different climate regions, so there is always someplace wonderful to explore. The best time to visit Mexico is any time of the year because there’s a place in Mexico for every season. Where and when you go depends on the type of activity you want to do. Throughout most of Mexico, the […]

One option is to visit Chichen Itza as a day trip from Cancun. The distance is 196km. The travel time from Cancun to Chichen Itza is one hour and 20 minutes.Mexican Peso MXN, 1 USD = 18 MXN

Hyatt Regency in Merida is a luxury option. Alternatively there are some good hotels in Chichen Itza where many stay a few nights to explore the site intensely. The Mayaland Hotel is close to the site.

Chichen Itza is only two-hour drive from Merida, the capital city of Yucatan State. One option is to fly Emirates to Los Angeles and then Aeromexico to Merida via Mexico City.

Every year thousands arrive to see this phenomenon through their own eyes and to rejoice the way Mayans did a millennium ago. A carnival atmosphere fills the area with sounds of drums, traditional music and cheering crowds”, tells Fabio seeding inside me thoughts of another trip.However, I get an idea of the spectacle when I

One of the most intriguing features of this monument is the optical illusion on two yearly equinoxes when the play of light and shadow on the northern staircase represents the shape of a serpent which descends along the steps to join the serpent head at the base. According to Mayan legend, this magic represents god

During its heyday in the 11th century, Chichen Itza, like Petra in Jordan, was a thriving city where over 35000 people lived.Many of the domain’s structures were built then, most striking is El Castillo, a 30m high stepped pyramid with a temple crowned at the top.It ranks today at the top of Mexico’s tourism display and

Chichen Itza is amazing, not just because of the unprecedented human ability to create something of an unimaginable engineering scale but also for demonstrating the integration of architectural ingenuity with myth and science, legends and history. This becomes clear when I wander through the sprawling complex where almost a millennium of heritage is displayed by

“We were very happy when Chichen Itza got selected as one of the Seven Wonders of the World”, tells our Mayan guide, Fabio, as we walk towards the main entrance of the wondrous site, located in the Yucatan province in south-eastern Mexico.“It was a recognition of our glorious ancestral past”.In 2007, Chichen Itza joined the Great Wall