Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City, 5452 m (17900 ft).


Downtown Merida.

Paseo de Montejo.









The monument to the flag.





The museum of anthropology.







Tercera Orden church.



Independence square.

City hall.

Casa de Montejo, built by the Spanish conquistadors in 1542.




The cathedral.

The Maya ruins of Dzibilchaltun.

Sacbe 1. This was a 20 m (66 ft) wide paved road.

Probably some kind of solar clock.

"The house of the seven dolls".

The sun shines through the doorway on the spring and fall equinoxes.











3 stelae lined up north-south.





"The standing temple".

Xlacah cenote (sink hole).



The open chapel.





The central plaza.

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