Maya Ruins Checklist

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"Palenque is the only major ancient Mayan city to which I have not traveled." -- milena_shibush

Probably of interest to noone else here, below are the Maya ruins I've visited, as best I remember, in the order I visited them within regions. Some I've visited multiple times, but I only list them once.

Yucatan Peninsula: Chichen Itza, Kabah, Uxmal, Dzibilchaltun, Sayil, Labna, Xlapak, Bolonchen, Mayapan, Telchaquillo, Acanceh, Izamal, Etzna, Tulum, Balancanche caves, Xpujil, Becan, Chicana, Kohunlich, Akumal, Chacmultun, Ake, Coba, Loltun, Dzibilnocac, Dzibalchen

Chiapas: Palenque, Comalcalco

Guatemala: Kaminaljuyu, Tikal, Quirigua, Iximche, La Democracia, Zacaleu, El Quiche, Gumarcah ...I think I'm forgetting a few small ones in the Guatemala highlands. I flew into Tikal for a day, but otherwise have seen none of the Peten.


Belize: Altun Ha, Xunantunich

Honduras: Copan, Siboney/Calabasas, Campo Pineda, La Lima, La Travesia

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Favorites: Copan, Palenque, Uxmal.

Major ones I've never visited (and would like to): Calakmul, El Mirador, Yaxchilan

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You kick ass!

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

My favorite: Uxmal.

And you've been to more than I (eg, have not seen Quirigua, Iximche, La Democracia, Zacaleu, El Quiche or Kaminaljuyu). I did, however, visit Calakmul this summer.

Sigh. Really wanting to go back.

Kickin' Ruins

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I lived in Antigua Guatemala for a semester and two summers, and would take trips around the Guatemala highlands on the good old Blue Bird busses on weekends and time off. Sometimes I'd just take whatever bus came along first to wherever it went.

Kaminaljuyu is right in a neighborhood of Guatemala City, accessible by city bus. Part of the suburbs are built over part of the old site, but the center of the old ceremonial center is a park now. I was told that when they put in running water to that neighborhood, they found one of Kaminaljuyu's old underground aquaducts bisecting the site at a convenient point, so part of Guatemala City's water system flows through 2k old Pre-Columbian clay pipe.