{"id":2888,"date":"2012-02-22T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:14:03","slug":"mexico-cuncunul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2012\/02\/22\/mexico-cuncunul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico 2012 &#8211; Cuncunul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess hardly anyone heard of such a town, but it is on the way back from Chichen Itza to Valladolid. We noticed a street from the main highway going deeper into some Maya pueblo and decided to drive into it and walk around. Here is the main square:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2889\" title=\"DSCF3676\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">As all town squares it has a Municipal building and a Church:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2890\" title=\"DSCF3651\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It also has a cenote. but a fenced one, without stairs, not developed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2891\" title=\"DSCF3655\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And several fenced streets:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2892\" title=\"DSCF3657\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Some houses are very poor and shabby, some are not bad at all, all intermixed , not like in the US divided into very distinguished rich areas and poor areas:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2893\" title=\"DSCF3659\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2894\" title=\"DSCF3667\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Notice the nice metal works on the windows. In those pueblos two things amazed me most &#8211; #1:their passion for colors and diligence in painting their fences, houses, poles, trees, whatever:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2896\" title=\"DSCF3661\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Notice here under the palm tree &#8211; even the lines between stones in the wall are painted green&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2897\" title=\"DSCF3668\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2898\" title=\"DSCF3671\" src=\"\/impressions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCF3671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And #2: they are never short of concrete&#8230;This will better be illustrated in the following blogs, so continue with  me on this amazing trip!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess hardly anyone heard of such a town, but it is on the way back from Chichen Itza to Valladolid. We noticed a street from the main highway going deeper into some Maya pueblo and decided to drive into it and walk around. Here is the main square: As all town squares it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2012\/02\/22\/mexico-cuncunul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexico 2012 &#8211; Cuncunul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}