Mayapan is a "small" site located relatively near Merida. Although it only covers an area of about 4 square kilometers, it contains more than 8,000 structures. Below: general view of Mayapan.
Students going up the pyramid; student going down the pyramid. This pyramid is in the same style as the one in Chichen Itza (Temple of Kulkulkan).
Unexcavated area at Mayapan.
Our lunch was at the Hacienda Ochil, one of many henequen plantations in the area. Many of the plantations were owned in abstentia by wealthy Spaniards who never visited the New World; others kept the plantations for country homes and lived in Merida. Mayans worked on the plantations, usually in a "serf" role. Eventually, the Mayans rebelled against the system by leaving the plantations and refusing to work at them anymore.
Below, two views of the Hacienda's arches, showing Moorish influences on the architecture.
Later, we visited the Merida Cemetery (Cemetario Generale) - a city in itself! There was another Korean grave (below), a concrete Mayan thatched hut (below), a mini-cemetery of workers from a rope factory (coils of ropes under their crosses), and enough to keep a visitor busy for at least a whole day!
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