Chichen Itza and Piste

Piste is the town that´s right next to Chichen Itza, it´s about 1-2 Km down the road. We arrived in Piste yesterday at around noon and went for an excellent BBQ chicken (pollo asadas el carbon) lunch. We´re staying at the Piramide Inn which has camping and a pool. Bonus! So we´ve finally got out our tent. We got up early today and walked to Chichen Itza. We made it before the crowds. What an amizing place. But unlike Uxmal, you can´t climb on any of the ruins. But after seeing how busy it gets a little later on in the day, I can only imaging what kind of erosion that much foot traffic would cause. We hired a private tour guide, a local Mayan. His second language was spanish and third English. He tought us some Mayan words, like Chichen Itza means Mouth (chi) Well (chen) and Itza was the name of the prominent family that lived there. We spent about 2 1/2 hours wandering around the place, it was huge. Then we wandered on home and I had another swim, Oh so nice.

Our bus for Tulum leaves at 8:10am tomorrow morning, so it´s up early to pack up. We´re both really looking forward to seeing the beach and yes, more ruins (on the beach).