Mexican Road Trip: The Road to Bonampak

by Richard Quinn | Jul 4, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 17: FROM CAMPECHE BACK TO PALENQUE The 17th day of our road trip started out exactly the same as our 16th day: we had breakfast at our hotel, the Hotel del Paseo (near the historic center of old Campeche); then we hit the road. Over the course of the previous...

Mexican Road Trip: Adventures along the Puuc Route

by Richard Quinn | May 31, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 16: Here a Puuc, there a Puuc, everywhere you look, a Puuc! On the 16th day of our road trip, we had breakfast at our hotel, the Hotel del Paseo near the historic center of old Campeche; then we gassed up the Jeep and hit the road. We had a lot of miles to cover,...

Mexican Road Trip: Edzná, and Campeche, Where They Dance La Guaranducha!

by Richard Quinn | May 12, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 15: Escárcega to Edzná, First House of the Itzás Escárcega is a small city of about 30,000, located at the junction of two Federal highways and a railroad. Very few tourists pass through the place, and those that do are mostly in a hurry, on their way to somewhere...

Mexican Road Trip: Circling the Yucatan, from Quintana Roo to Campeche

by Richard Quinn | Apr 16, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 13: All Roads Lead to COBÁ! On the 13th day of our road trip, we spent the morning making a follow-up visit to the Mayan ruins at Tulum. (See my previous post: Mexican Road Trip: Cancun, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya). As for the afternoon, our plan called for a...

Mexican Road Trip: Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá

by Richard Quinn | Jan 27, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 9: Uxmal: A Tough Act to Follow Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá? There wasn’t really a competition between these two Mayan cities, it was more of a question that I’d been asking myself. I’d seen plenty of photographs of both, so I knew more or less what to...

Mexican Road Trip: Mayan Ruins and Waterfalls in the Lacandon Jungle

by Richard Quinn | Dec 14, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel

DAY 4: AFTER THE ROADBLOCKS: THE ANCIENT MAYAN CITY OF PALENQUE As a photographer, my favorite subject has always been beautiful landscapes, of the sort that you find in our National Parks, but ruined buildings, especially those that are ancient and iconic, run a very...

Chichén Itzá: Requiem for the Feathered Serpent

by Richard Quinn | Oct 14, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Travel

The Temple of Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent, is the largest structure in the ancient city of Chichén Itzá. Often referred to as the Castillo, it is perhaps the most perfect example of a Mayan step pyramid to have survived into our modern age, and it’s so well...

Tulum: The City that Greets the Dawn

by Richard Quinn | Apr 17, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Travel

Tulum is not all that large, as Mayan cities go, but its spectacular location, right on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, makes it one of the best known, and definitely one of the most picturesque. This was a late post-classic Maya site that was at it’s...

The Mayan City of Edzná, First House of the Itzás

by Richard Quinn | Mar 26, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Travel

Edzná (Edz-nah, pronounced just like it’s spelled) is one of the best kept secrets in the Yucatan. The average tourist has never heard of this particular Mayan ruin, so you would think, based on its lack of notoriety, that there’s nothing special about it. In reality,...

Uxmal: Architectural Perfection in the Land of the Maya

by Richard Quinn | Mar 9, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Travel

Uxmal, (pronounced, oosh-mahl), is the most aesthetically spectacular of all the Mayan cities. The beautiful setting, the quality of the architecture, the state of preservation, the wonderful plazas replete with flowering trees. This place has it all, and it’s not...