The focus of this article is a Christmas trip to the Yucatan Penninsula. Unfortunately the photographs of Valladolid, Ek Balam, Chichen Itza and Cenote Dzitnup were lost when I broke my portable hard drive. What is left is basically from a few days in December, 2005.

After staying in Vallodolid for a few days, we continued on to Tikul, with every intention of visiting a few of the Puuc Route sites. Our little rental car and the state of one road in particular that was being refurbished, made that impossible, and we only got to see ... (more)