Is it a Magician, is it a Gnome, is it a Divination?

Uxmal, a great Mayan city, where some of its majestic buildings still stand in the middle of the Yucatan territory.

This pyramid among other ruins in the Uxmal complex, is a beautiful and attractive building of 117 feet tall, some papers call it the Magician pyramid, but in Mexico this is named after "the one the practices divinations" (La piramide del Adivino). The Legend says that when a certain gong was sounded, the town of Uxmal would fall to a boy "not born of woman". One day, a dwarf boy, who had been raised from an egg by a witch, sounded the gong and struck fear into the ruler, who ordered him to be executed. The ruler promised that the boy’s life would be saved if he could perform three impossible tasks, one of which was to build a giant pyramid in a single night. The boy achieved all the tasks, and became the new ruler.

Uxmal is located along the Puuc route. Since puuc is a mayan word for hills, we can imagine this area of the Maya world as the most "hilly" among a bast territory of flatness that the Yucatan peninsula represents.

Along the Puuc route we do not just find Uxmal, but another cities as well, Kabah, Labna and Sayil. The Puuc cities represent a great deal of Mayan architecture, the buildings festooned with religious icon, reliefs and carvings.

Climbing this pyramid and exploring the other ruins in this archaeological site, would empower our curiosity as the past explorers and archaeologists did, when they did find for first time this footprint from the ancient. A big respect and admiration for those civilizations.

Cenote Ik Kil

I wouldn't come to you with definitions of what is a Cenote, since you can have a better one following the link. But this appealing natural pool is some of the wonders of the Yucatán peninsula.
Yucatan along with part of Central America was home of one of the greatest civilization, the Maya, the Mayan considered this water reservoirs sacred places as the only resource of water they had.
Today many cenotes are open to the public for a refreshing swimming or snorkeling, this particular cenote is called ik kil and is located close to the great city of Chichen Itza.
We hope we can be enjoying its clear waters this summer, on our "Ruins and beaches" trip to Yucatán.

El dia del amor.

Valentine's day, is an special celebration where people wish to each other LOVE, that is fine with me, even my Snape's inner spirit allows that. When my girl started pre-school I remember not knowing anything about Valentine's cards, until I asked Lauren what was that, and then I understood the big deal that this celebration means for kids, I bet is for the candy treats, because they pay little attention to the written cards.
I like to look at my children bags of Valentines when they come back from school, I think they reflects lots of the giver personalities, even if the parents buy them for them, I'm sure they look for something that goes with he/her thoughts. Some ones make them at home (like A&B, last year, but that was an art-craft for a non-school day).
Anyways, I got and email from some body I don't know, but I suspect Eduardo does, because my address is part of a large list where he appears. Talking about San Valentine's alternative day for guys, I replayed with all the sarcasm I usually use when talking with El Pollo because I thought I was writing to him, but noticed that I sent the e-mail to this guy I don't know, if he speaks spanish, then he would think I come from planet Vinager, (see how important is having sense of humor or knowledge of reallity?).
Oh well, I've been busy these days reading and planning a Yucatán trip-project.

Eres un amigo de Obama?

Chico!!! Action, now the new Amigos de Obama, (BUTt, they need to put caption in Spanish of his speeches) let's see if that works for him, in the race for Voto Latino!

The hispanic wall and Obama

The Newspaper El Pais from Spain says something like this, Obama faced a wall not anticipated, the hispanic wall, here something from an article I just read, I know is in Spanish, but you can use a translator to have an idea, try to read the whole thing too. I have to add that Obama didn't get close to the Latino community, I didn't hear in any news how Obama talks to Latinos, just that he sang "Mexico Lindo" in some radio-talk show, and something else, Obama and his speeches resembles a lot to old and all times Latin-american politicians, lots of promises and hopes and at the end (for our countries), nothing to be true or worst. We don't know if that is the case with Obama, but Latinos fear for a not happy ending.
But for all of you Obama followers, "El Pais" is making a poll, Obama or Clinton.

"El rechazo electoral a un candidato negro es un asunto que preocupa mucho a los portavoces de la comunidad hispana y cuya explicación exige un análisis muy profundo. En las últimas semanas, este periódico ha buscado en dos Estados de gran presencia latina, Nevada y California, algunas de las razones de este nuevo fenómeno y ha encontrado respuestas sensatas y creíbles: la competencia de negros e hispanos por los mismos puestos de trabajo, la guerra que las pandillas de las dos comunidades libran desde hace años en los barrios de las grandes ciudades, el trato despreciativo que algunos negros han tenido hacia los hispanos durante mucho tiempo, las enormes diferencias culturales entre las dos etnias... Los expertos y los líderes políticos hispanos se niegan a hablar de racismo. Aseguran que se trata de desconocimiento, de prevención o de venganza, pero no de racismo".