Me alegro por haber tenido la experiencia de estar en una ciudad maya. Siempre me ha interesado la conquista de los mayas, y pude ver uno de los sitios que he estudiado. - I'm happy that I got to the chance to be in a Mayan city. I've always been interested in the conquest of the Mayans (at least since 5th grade history class) and I got to see one of the sites that I have studied.
The Great Temple of Kukulcán (the snake god)
Traté de imaginar cómo se veía hace ochocientos años, pero es imposible visualizarlo perfectamente. - I tried to imagine what the city looked like eight hundred years ago, but it's impossible to visualize it perfectly.
The Temple of the Warriors
Estar en el puro centro de una ciudad maya me impresionó y ahora puedo entender mejor el asombro que los españoles sentían cuando veían esta sociedad por primera vez. La grandeza de los edificios acompañada por la belleza de los adornos es increíble hoy en día: sólo puedo imaginar cómo se veía antes. - Being in the very center of a Mayan city impressed me and now I better understand the wonder that the Spaniards felt when they saw this society for the first time. The magnitude of the buildings accompanied by the beauty of the decorations is incredible today: I can only imagine how they looked before.
Mayan glyphs as well as a sculpture.
Carving of Mayan warriors.
On the way to see the cenote (sink hole), some venders called out to my friends and me screaming "princesas mayas! Vean lo que vendemos; son muy buenos precios". "mayan princesses! Look at what we are selling! They are good prices!"
Ok- does light hair, blue-eyed me really look like a Mayan princess?
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