Scenes from the Book!

        Last week we traveled to Chichen-Itza and stayed at the Hacienda Chichen, the actual hacienda mentioned in "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan". This hacienda is right next to the Chichen-Itza archaeological zone, so close that we could see the Caracol observatory from our breakfast table.  Our cottage was built by Edward Thompson, a former private owner of the Hacienda Chichen. After checking in we walked approximately 300 meters from our cottage to the back entrance to the Chichen-Itza ruins.



     The West Gate of the Chichen-Itza property has a new feature, as Old Chichen, Chichen Viejo, the old city of Chichen, has been discovered to have had walls around it and four stone Mayan Arch gates at each of the cardinal points, north, east, west and south. The West Gate is the only one that has been restored so far. We met our guide and began our tour of  places at Chichen-Itza that are mentioned in "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan".

   
Of course the most impressive site at Chichen-Itza is El Castillo, as it was called by the Spanish, or the Temple of Kukulkan as it was known to the Maya. This is the massive temple in the center of the property that has the famous Equinox snake-shadow which decends the stairs to touch the earth and then re-ascends again.  This structure is much more impressive to see in person than you might imagine.

I then could hardly wait to get to the Temple of the High Priest and the Mysterious Round Structure in front of it, as these two ruins represented a pivotal scene in the book. Every detail is just as I had described it, the right distances, angles, etc. It gave me an eerie feeling to be standing in one of the most exciting scenes of "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan", as if the characters would come running down the steps of the pyramid at any moment!

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