Riveria Mayakoba, Mexico Day 3

Finally, Day three.  Mike and Steve got up early for the awards presentations, Debbie and I slept in (after all in is a VACATION!).  Mike received recognition for having sold $1,000,000 in product!  Congratulations!!!!

After a wonderful lunch we boarded a bus and headed south to Telum.  This is a city of the Mayan people built on a cliff top overlooking the ocean.  They estimate in was inhabited around 1200 to 1600 BC.  The whole city was surrounded by stone walls as you can see...Steve and Debbie are just entering into the opening in the above picture.  I found the ruins and history of this people fascinating.  They were a very bloodthirsty and superstitious people.  They worshipped the sun, wind, rain, etc.  They were pretty short we determined by the height of the doorways into the buildings. 

Apparently Telum is one of the least restored ruins they have uncovered.  many of the buildings were crumbling.  The interesting thing is the buildings weren't used for shelter.  It is so hot there, and it is 20 degrees or more hotter inside the buildings.  The buildings were for storage and worship.  There were about 30 family units that lived at Telum.  Only the rich were allowed to live inside the walls of the city, the poorer people and servants lived outside the walls.  There were several cenotes inside the walls that brought them water.  They had a temple.

You can see the decay of the stone very well in this picture.  It was so hot the day we were there...a hat was a necessity, but I think we all had a bit of heat stroke after an hour unprotected in the sun.

On the top border of this building about in the middle you can kind of see an upside down man that looks like a frog.  This is the God that caught the sun with his legs as it set and returned it to its rising place in the west.

There were soooo many iguanas there roaming around.  I was fascinated by them.  This one seems to enjoy the sun...go figure?

The building in the background you can see is their temple.  What a beautiful view of the ocean from the hilltop! 

I still can get over the color of the ocean and just how warm it was.  There were stairs down to the beach and many of the visitors took a chance to cool off in the waves.  On the clifftop there was an oceanic breeze....Ah..Heavenly!

Here we are looking a bit hotter and the wind kept blowing off our hats....can you tell which one of us has "hat hair"....Dad of course :)

That evening (after a long cool nap and a shower) we went to "Club AFES".  They had turned the island into an upscale club.  They had every delicous food you could imagine. The band tonight was playing pop music, and after dinner our entertainment was watching all the drunk people dance.  The main slinger was pretty good at getting them upfront, singing and dancing...interesting!

They put together this pyramid and covered it with white cloth.  After it got dark, they turned it into a light show of sorts.  Not only could they make it change colors, but they had dancing lights of differents sizes and shapes that would spin around the inside of the canopy.

We did have one more day there in Mexico, but due to Montezuma's revenge, we stayed indoors all morning taking turns using the facilities.  By afternoon we were sufficiently 'empty' to spend the afternoon at the beach.  We didn't get to go Horseback riding or snorkling...much to my sadness...but we did spend a nice slow day together enjoying the beauty of Mexico.  We have tons more pictures, but these are a few of the best!