CANCUN TRAVELS

MY HUSBAND AND I TRAVELLED TO CANCUN WITH MY MOM.  I WAS WITH MY MOM AND MY BROTHER'S FAMILY.  I WAS WORKING IN THE FOREST SERVICE WHEN WE MADE THIS TRIP. CANCUN IS A LOT LIKE OTHER PLACES IN MEXICO WHERE PEOPLE ENJOY THE OCEAN.  CANCUN MEANS NEST OF SNAKES.  THIS ISLAND WAS FIRST KNOWN TO THE MAYA WHO DEVELOPED MANY ANCIENT SITES WE VISITED NEARBY.
AFTER CONQUEST THE POPULATION DIED OFF FROM DISEASE AND PIRACY, AND FAMINE LEAVING SMALL SETTLEMENTS IN COZUMEL.

BY 1970'S ISLAN CANCUN HAD ONLY THREE AND A COCONUT PLANTATION AND ONLY 117 PEOPLE ON ISLA  DE MYERES.  BY 1974 THEY DEVELOPED IT AS A TOURIST PROJECT.  NOW IT IS A FISHING VILLAGE AND HAS MANY RESORTS.  THEY HAVE MANY DRUG CARTELS AND SMUGGLING ROUTES ACCORDING TO U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENTS.

WE TOURED MANY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES SUCH AS CHICHEN ITZA.  HERE WE STAYED IN THE QUARTERS WHERE THE ORIGINAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAD LIVED.  WE FLEW TO MERIDA WHICH HAS A WALLED CITY WITH A MAJOR PORT OF CAHA.  THE RUINS ARE 12 METERS HIGH ON THE EAST COAST OF YUCATAN BY THE SEA.  COBA SHOWS TRACES OF TEOTIHUACAN.  TULUM IS A BEAUTIFUL SITE THERE THAT IS EXCELLENT FROM THE CARIBBEAN SEA.  IT HAS A WALLED CITY ON THE CLIFFS.  I REMEMBER SEEING SOME OLD PICTOGRAPHS.  TULUM WAS 1 OF THE LAST SITES INHABITED BY THE MAYAS.  IT WAS ONCE OCCUPIED BY SPANISH WHO BROUGHT DISEASES HERE. 
IT WAS ONE OF THE LAST CITIES BUILT BY THE MAYANS.  SPANISH DISEASES APPEARED TO HAVE CAUSED ITS DEMISE.  TULUM HAD BEEN A CITY FOR TRADING OBSIDIAN.

MOSTOF US WALKED ABOUT 1 MILE TO COBA INTO THE ANCIENT CITY OF PYRAMIDS.  IT HAD SOME VERY TALL STELLA. THE STELLA ARE LARGE CARVED ROCKS WITH VARIOUS FIGURES OF IMPORTANCE AND SOME SCENES OF ACTIVITIES DURING PREHISTORIC TIMES.  THEY HAD ANIMALS THAT THEY KILLED AND SOME THAT THEY REVERED ON STELLA.

THERE WERE SEVERAL PYRAMIDS THAT WE CLIMBED.  COBA HAD BALL GAMES AND IT WAS AN IMPORTANT SITE.

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