{"id":2949,"date":"2012-03-09T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:14:33","slug":"mexico-uayma-and-izamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2012\/03\/09\/mexico-uayma-and-izamal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico 2012 – Uayma and Izama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next town on our way – Uayma. We got to know about it from polish couple we met at the Hostel. That is one of the main reasons I like hostels – you meet people while having breakfast, they are usually very open to interactions and sharing their impressions. We would have missed this very different and impressive Uayma cathedral:<\/p>\n

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And I can say for sure – as many more churches we saw – none of them had anything like those flower…Interesting how some artist came to a very original decor, having in my that there was no internet way then…<\/p>\n

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Here is the town itself – heading towards our car. We wanted to have the Maya lady in her national dress standing by the entrance to municipal market:<\/p>\n

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And the roads looked like this, like a tunnel through an endless yellow blooming meadow:<\/p>\n

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In a couple of hours or so we reached the next destination -Izamal – a town in yellow color! I would say that Izamal means Amber, but as if it is named after Amaryllis, the flower, which I have never seen in yellow…why not Daffodil?<\/p>\n

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As we entered through this gate – all the buildings were the same color:<\/p>\n

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No problem to park the car, lots of “estrangeros” driven in horse carriages, a little tourist town which has a main point – the Cathedral:<\/p>\n

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The Cathedral, The Anthony Convent as it is called, is not as big or impressive. But the front yard, as I call, is the second after Vatican’s St Peter’s Basilica’s yard by its size:<\/p>\n

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Pope Paul II visited this town in his times and held a mass in this yard, so that Mexicans built him a monument. Here is the entrance to the Cathedral with “the dance of shades”:<\/p>\n

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The cross Maya people adjusted to their own taste – draped with their national floral embroidery:<\/p>\n

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A cloister inside – not yellow?!:<\/p>\n

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And the decorated gates:<\/p>\n

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The Cathedral with its yard is beautifully situated on a hill in a place where ancient Maya pyramid stood – as we noticed it was a common practice for the catholic missionaries to disassemble pyramids and build churches using the same stones. Here are some more nicely decorated houses:<\/p>\n

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Books say that there are still some Maya ruins intact in the town, but had no time to look for them. were heading to Merida!<\/p>\n

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Next town on our way – Uayma. We got to know about it from polish couple we met at the Hostel. That is one of the main reasons I like hostels – you meet people while having breakfast, they are usually very open to interactions and sharing their impressions. We would have missed this very … Continue reading Mexico 2012 – Uayma and Izama<\/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-2949","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\/2949","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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}