Museo Maya D Cancun

Visited Mexico for the first time, Dec 2018. Visited Cancun. Here are a few/several photos from in and around Cancun.  Loved the warm weather, warm people and the great food there. Would love to visit again. Especially to escape the Canadian winter.

Below are photos from our visit to the Museum in Cancun devoted to the Mayan artifacts. There is also an archeological site attached to  the museum. We needed a couple of hours or less to see the museum and the site. We went here the very first day. We took a bus from our hotel and it was a quick and inexpensive trip. (12 pesos per person, one way...less than one Canadian dollar). 

 Above are three huge mythical beings.. elaborately decorated in various patterns and colors.
Below are some of the ancient things of the Mayan people. 

I love these gentle earthy colors of pottery.

Below are a couple of photos of the remains of the buildings on the archaeological site attached to the museum. It was calm, quiet, with lots of trees growing around and silent workers sweeping the leaves away. The huge trees cast shade over this site and one could hear a few birds in the trees. This peaceful oasis of calm   is in such stark contrast to the rest of  'colorful, bustling and touristy' Cancun !

 I saw this huge (about three foodball size) textured lump of mud up on . a tree in the archaeological site and when I googled it , discovered that these are termite nests. For more details, see http://www.backyardnature.net/yucatan/termnest.htm. 

I had read of dappled sunshine in poetry. In this lovely garden AKA archaeological site I actually realized what is dappled sunshine and how lovely it is. 

 I loved the varied colors of the lime stone walls caused by weathering, sunlight, rain, algae. I saw these lime stone walls in the various ruins I visited when in Cancun and fell in love with their uneven rugged beauty. Limestone, unlike marble and granite has texture...holes and uneven surface caused by the wearing out of the stone. 
I realized after seeing limestone in  both  modern and ancient constructions around Cancun that : (1) Lime stone is abundant here. (2)  Cancun has such beautiful white sands on it's beaches because of the limestone everywhere here...probably disintegrating and reaching the sea and the beaches. . (3) The carvings and sculptures of the ancient Mayans done on limestone has disintegrated as this stone is susceptible to weathering much more than other rocks such as granite and marble.  The carvings  in temples in India carved out of granite, marble, soapstone have lasted longer and are more 'intact' than the limestone carvings here.  Imagine the beauty of the Mayan carvings if this country had granite instead of limestone! (4) Climbing the pyramids in the other ruins I visited was no easy task...the limestone steps were uneven as parts of the limestone have disintegrated with age and are uneven which makes stepping on it painful after a while. (5) the disintegrating limestone has lead to the formation of Cenotes all over this region.