Should you go to CHICHEN ITZA? How about EK BALAM?
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- One of the most popular destinations for tourism in Mexico these days is Chichen Itza, which brings in people from around the world. In this episode we look at the site from the perspective of ancient history fans, as well as the neighboring site of Ek Balam, which is far less crowded. If you are planning a trip to the Yucatan, this guide will help you make a decision whether you should go to one or the other or both.
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Recommended text: The Maya Voices in Stone
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More travel information about the sites we visited can be found here:
Ek Balam:
amazingtemples.com/en/mexico-...
www.revistascisan.unam.mx/Voic...
www.famsi.org/reports/01057/01...
Chichen Itza:
www.chichenitza.com/listingvi...
mediateca.inah.gob.mx/reposit...
www.jstor.org/stable/44478211...
www.jstor.org/stable/26309084...
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The Grand Museum of the Maya World:
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Where's the poll? Can you include a link to the poll in the description or something?
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After all of us deeply black rock desert huddled , uhm NO!
No poll for u ! Hahaha!
Really enjoying these videos. I also do a similar style! Looking forward to more
Awesome! Thank you!
Wow, I went there with family back in the 80’s and it was nowhere near that populated. We were even allowed to climb that Pyramid which was no easy feat. Climbing down was treacherous. You’re becoming one of my favorite channels on here, Dr Dave!
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Climbing Pyramid of the Sun is more difficult. It is 3 times higher, with steps 3 times higher than normal.
It brought tears to the old man’s eyes. Thank you. And a thousand blessings on your house
That was amazing! What really impressed me most is your ability to bite your tongue when that tourist thought the ruins were from the 1800's, and that the Europeans guided the design and building. I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut on that one. You are a better man than I.
Haha I think that maybe our educational system has had something to do with it.
@@WorldofAntiquity I couldn't agree more! Also, a lot of people have difficulties with grasping the concept of a thousand or more years. I'm an ancient coin dealer, and one thing that I've learned is that a coin from 1895 is just as old as 336 BC to most people.
I looked for a comment about the 1800's. Sure that is funny, but I would have kindly said something. With ADHD I can't ever stay shut, so I have lots of experience in saying nicely. :D Sarcastic tone is the last thing you want to mix with no self controll.
Man, with your production, quality and information, you deserved to be in the thousands of subscribers. Thank you for making this quality video that bring new light to a place we all should know more. I'll recommend your channel to all my friends. Can't wait to see you guys visiting other amazing countries, especially Greece, Turkey and Egypt, and maybe even central Mexico, that also have a lot to offer. Keep up with the great work. Greetings from Brazil
Thank you, Thiago. It's much appreciated!
Memory Lane! I was in Valladolid for a few days last summer when I was traveling Yucatán. I even ate at that restaurant! The art museum there is incredible. Ek Balam was really eye opening.
Dude, this is awesome... I definitely need to hire you as my tour guide when I visit, hopefully soon. Thanks for this inspiring video!
Thanks, Cy!
Went to Chichen Itza on 9/11 ! Went into the Middle temple too. And I climbed it twice, because the camera battery had ran out! Things were better in the past!
So awesome to see 😲 Thanks for the awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job Dave!
Watching your chanel is a real solace in these frustrating lockdown times. Thanks for doing these.
Aw, thanks. I am glad you're enjoying them!
Thank you for sharing;)
I was there in 2003/4 time..... it was awesome! RT'd as always, Doctor!
Thank You Very Much!! What a wonderful education!! I can't wait to visit as many Mayan cities as I can!!!
Two of my favorite Maya sites. Valladolid is a really wonderful, under-appreciated colonial City, which has several cenotes in town you can visit and swim in, gorgeous colonial era streets and buildings and some early, very fortress like churches make the area well worth an independent visit. I realize most people do Chichen Itza as a one-day side trip from Cancun; that doesn't seem like very much fun to me, to be honest. I would strongly recommend setting aside a couple days for the interior of the Yucatan -- a day for Chichen and a day for Ek Balam and Valladolid; there is plenty to do if you have the time to allocate even a third day. If you do go to Chichen Itza, I strongly advise going early --- spend the night in Valladolid or Piste, then show up at Chichen Itza as close to opening time as you can. When we did, we literally had a couple of hours to wander the ruins almost alone---and what a difference that makes. its a big, big site -- only Teotihuacan is bigger--there is really more than you'll have energy for in a day--and it gets very hot and dusty in the afternoon. We were able to wear ourselves out just as the park was becoming too overcrowded with tourist buses from Cancun, and we left first for a beer at the hotel and then a nice cooling dip in one of the big touristic cenotes next to the site ---these are worthy, but can also get crowded with tour buses from Cancun. The stucco detail preserved at Ek Balam makes it an absolute must see in my book ---I would put it way, way, ahead of Tulum or Coba on the list of must-sees---there is a cenote at Ek Balam ---a short bike taxi ride away from the ruins, that is must add addition to those of you with kids in tow, or those who just like to swim in cenotes ---the one at Ek Balam is an old one that is open to the sky, so its not spooky like some of the underground ones. Also worth noting is that there is a lot of really interesting Caste-war history here as well, for those who are into more modern history and ethnic studies.
Thank you for this! I'm I'm Valladolid now and will definitely hit ek balam tomorrow
Cool video. I hope to visit the Yucatan one day. I better make it soon, just watching these videos makes my knees ache.
I have a theory. I suspect the Mayans were aware of the “wheel”. I also suspect that it may even have been contemplated as a means of transporting goods. I wonder if it was not adopted as such for the sole reason that it would upset society as it existed.
Thanks guys, this has been one of the highlights of the covid-19 months for me. I feel for you both in that, I totally get the phenomenon of RUIN FATIGUE. My wife and I did a road trip from Olympia, WA. to the Panama Canal ( and back) in 2006-2007, visiting various sites along the way. We found that attempting to cram all of these ruins into one trip would result in me never wanting to visit a ruin again! The heat, the physical exertion, the sheer size of the areas involved requires stamina and determination. I must say that your aside about the fellow who thought the Spaniards pitched in and helped the Maya build a temple dedicated to the god Ixtalatl? gave me a good laugh (well we all know that Indians couldn't have built these without help! right?). And we know the Spaniards wanted to help out the guys they were slaughtering and enslaving, coz that's just the kind of guys they were! I understand why you wouldn't to correct the guy (especially on camera). A sobering thought, though, is that for so many, history is just a few inches deep and beyond that it's an academic crap-shoot.
It's good to hear these videos are being enjoyed. I am ready to go and explore some more, but alas, it looks like it may be a while.
I really enjoyed this video. I've been to Chichen Itza but with a licensed guide and so I saw and understood what they focused on. I appreciated how you put Ek Balam and Chichen Itza into historical context. (But I did not understand the music behind you speaking! Less music, more information!)
Great series, very much appreciated. I am compelled to add, I would have shouldered in with at least an 800 AD vocalization...
Love your channel…but where can I go for irregular videos about ancient cultures and forgotten civilizations?
Just to put a note in here: maybe my comment on your post about the tone of the debunking videos left a bad impression. But I really admire your work in here, and this being the first travel guide I've watched I need to say it's truly great!
Thanks, Mauricio. I appreciate that. And don't worry--I didn't take your comments as being rude.
@@WorldofAntiquity Ya. I agree with Mauricio. Sometimes your tone is a bit rude dude. But this one is amazing! Two Pahip-ku tah laks up!
@@immature4hisage I disagree! Having watched many, and coming from a sarcastic, understated culture - the enthusiasm of the presenter really shines. Just my opinion though, and we're all entitled to one.
Only extraterrestrials from an ancient advanced civilization could have possibly visited those ancient ruins without wearing a mask.
Lovely. Thank you.
When I was a kid I thought Chichen Itza was a food of some sort. I have no idea why.
The 24 fps makes me feel ill whenever you pan anywhere, at any speed though.
Awesome! where will you go next ?
Still deciding.
Music not suitable to subject. Noisy rock guitar in the background, pan pipes or a south American theam would have been more appropriate.
Unsure, but I thought a Palenque pyramid also had stairs going down into it. Did I hear in this video that Chichén Itza was the only place in mesoamerica where this occurs? Does anyone know about Palenque?
If you want to visit a site than you have to sleep in the town it’s in so that you are first there
21:24 I can't believe you went all the way there, and didn't clap at the bottom of those steps. WOW. Go look on youtube and see what you missed.
If you clap at the bottom of those steps it echoes, and the echo that comes back at you sounds like the bird the pyramid is named after. Now explain to me how they figured that one out. How they figured out how to change an echoes frequency to make it sound like a bird, how did they then figure out how to tune a pyramid to do that?
I clapped and it was amazing since you stand in an open field, not in a cave or mountains.
Ed ran into a TUMI KNIFE somewhere in a museum case around there.
What a wonderful upload, packed full of information. Why do more people not watch these ?. As i have said before David, just mention aliens or laser beams and you are all good. I have made a decision...i am going to stick to academia from now on, and forget about weird alternative theories. I have you to thank for that change in mindset David. I do have some advice for you...man to man kinda deal. Them round glasses are not helping you...get yourself a cool pair of raybans or something. I may not be an academic, but i am a cool mother brother and know what i am talking about. Your lovely partner will help you out in this regard i am sure. I hope you take that in the right way...respect and peace to ya.
I was thinking of switching them up. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@WorldofAntiquity Thank you for your reply and upload...academics rock !
@@WorldofAntiquityyeah get modern cool specs😂🎉! Those you have are too antiquated 😮
Was this filmed this year? That long line of people waiting to enter Chichen Itza and standing mere centimeters from one another without a single mask in view looks unreal. Thankfully they're outside, but still... By the way, this was a truly great video, thank you!
It was shot back in December. Sorry it took so long to post!
a well produced and directed video. never been, hear it's huge.
saw your ball court video, i know, ball court though? ain't watched it yet, so my ignorance - have you seen the modern day replays of the ball game (on yt)? not very dynamic. then historians have set fire to this historical pelota. oh my god.
And the ball is/was assumed to be solid, solid rubber. bruv these cats are dressing up, literally, capturing each other.
bouncing canon ball like rubber balls, alight, around the observatory?? scoring points?
I go into the game in my Coba video.
No mention of the echo from the stairs of the pyramid.... Why?
Didn't get it on video.
@@WorldofAntiquity Well that's just too bad. This level of engineering is just mind boggling, anyone can experience it and it's typically the type of thing that makes people's imagination run wild. When I was a kid I read about it in a book about "mysteries of ancient civilizations" but then I was just baffled when I witnessed that in real life. It was actually true. Back then before internet these types of books often just pointed out such facts without suggesting baseless explanations to fool some people and frustrate others lol.
Any opinion on this particular example?
you are like the SciManDan of archaeology. hope your channel does well, you might check out SciManDan to see how he gained so much popularity. best wishes
Simon who?
What precisely fascinated them about Venus?
The movements of Venus delineated the rainy season and the agricultural cycle in Mesoamerica.
Seems the bases are rectangular and then as the buildings go up the structures are highly Piggly, not as sophisticated.
Sorry, what do you mean by "piggly"?
@@WorldofAntiquity crooked, laid here and there. Is it possible that another culture built these cities and the Maya just added more stones? Similar observations of Inca installations, as well as other locations around the world.
Ah, the crookedness was mainly caused by the environment over the centuries. When the structures were first built, they were not so much like that. And there are various methods of dating the structures and the phases of the building, which helps us narrow down how old they are.
On 7:30 min very impressive facade is not old or ancient. You've been fooled. It was build almost from scratch about 10 years ago. I saw workers "reconstucting" it to amaze tourists. I wonder how many "well preserved" writing on walls and sculptures they have in Mexico.
It’s a reconstruction
@@WorldofAntiquity Reconstruction with imagination because there was nothing left from original design. But i kind of like it. It is better than Greece where we see mostly columns standing and stones on a ground.
So longyou cave mystery? Not sure where stone went and when? Huh? Could be the 2000 year old town made of stone bricks. Bet the volume of caves equals the amount of stone used in ancient town.
Whats so great about it?
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“The whitest kids you know”
No, no, don’t go to Ek Balam go to Chichen Itza!
There’s nothing to see in Ek Balam stay away, stay away
Ek balam ! SHIVA TEMPLE ! NOT PYRAMIDS ! DISCENDEND OF looters ,robbers be ready to be a BIGGER very Soon !
Very nice video ❤️❤️❤️ Subscribe Done 👍
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