TRIP TO MEXICO, JANUARY 2000
Yucatan Peninsula

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Popocatepetl
Chichen-Itza
Akumal lagoon
Coba pyramid
cave near Akumal
Tulum ruins

 

Popocatepetl (in back) spewing ash in a minor eruption.

Ixtlaccihautl is in foreground.

(Taken during flight from Mexico City to Yucatan peninsula)

   Chitzen-Itza

 Beth on pyramid  

   Chichen-Itza, view from the pyramid.

 Gran Cenote (the great sinkhole)

at Chichen-Itza

 

 Chuc-Mul  

 

 Lagoon at Akumal.

Great snorkling.

Beth sitting on limestone

Beth on a pyramid in Coba 

 

   Looking up through a sink hole in a cave near Akumal.Tree roots grow through crack in limestone into the cave.

 A small sinkhole on the surface above the cave we were just in.

Photo taken looking vertically downward.

 

 

 Tulum.

Mayan ruins on the coast near Akumal.

   Tulum

 The flow of ground water in Yucatan indicating a buried impact crater centered at Chuxulub.  

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