Volcano

Volcano

Flying to go to family house in Xmas, the plane flights over this Volcano, that i think is the "Pico de Orizaba"

I know its not the poopocatepetl, since that is near another one, of which I also got photo, but since it had no snow, not that pretty.

Greetings

Kisses
Jessica

Water Cave

Water Cave

Almost a whole week without posting anything
Been over busy at work, hopefully things come back to normal

Didn't even finished posting old photos
This one is from one of the Cenotes around tulum. Interesting thing is the is part cave. Water quite cold there. but the blues, are just wow.

For the ones who know how to dive, is an entry point for cave diving.

Amazing beauties.

Kisses
Jessica

PS, I am waiting for the pics of september 15, to show how Jessica celebrated Independence day. But I forgot to carry camera that day.

Tulum Beach

Tulum Beach

Another view of another point of the beachs in Tulum.
With those blues there was only one thing to do, to jump into the water.
This time I did remember to put sun blocker, so I ended up with a nice tan, yes bit of sunburn, but not much, and more important, without the pain of it.

I so wanted to just stay there forever.
But the evil forces brought me back.

Kisses
Jessica

Tulum

Tulum

This photo is from the archeological site of Tulum, where the biological entity that restrain me spent his weekend.

Tulum is a very interesting mayan archeological site.

Someone once said to me it was rare for being the only mayan site, right next to the sea. (its not, I know of other two, one in belize, and another in Isla de Jania, but maybe they are not that close to the sea)
What it does have, is an outer wall to protect the city.

And the view from there is, just amazing, the blues of the caribbean sea, its amazing (I'll post one photo of just the sea soon)

One tip, if you plan to visit Tulum, the archeologial site, take a hat, or something to cover your head with you. The sun is way too strong there. And walking, jumping, going up and down, you might get heat stoke (sun stroke).

Kisses
Jessica.

Agua Azul

Agua Azul

This are the great Agua Azul Waterfalls in Chiapas
This panorama was made with the Canon PhotoStitch, using 4 photos of the Waterfalls, they are too big, that they don't fit in just one photo in my Camera. Thats why the sky looks a bit of different colors.

They are indeed one natural wonder one must see.

Yes, the water is not so blue in the pic, but being start of rain season I was told that is the reason.

Kisses
Jessica

WaterFall from Above

WaterFall from Above

Another experiment with long exposure

The Mixul-Ha Waterfalls

The Mixul-Ha Waterfalls

Near Palenque there is a place called Mixul-Ha where this waterfall is.
Great thing is that you can swim there ,as long as you don't go close to where the water hits.

Kisses
Jessica

Mini Waterfall with long exposure time

Mini Waterfall with long exposure time

This is an experiment with longer exposure times, this one was with 0.4 seconds, maybe not long, but enough to make the capture of the water movement look different.
Also shot a few with longer times, but without a tripod quite difficult to not get it blurry when doing more than one second.
This one the rocks look almost as clear as they were, love that green thingie on them.

And to think that waterfall is only like 15 centimeters tall at most.

Kisses
Jessica

Toucan

Toucan

One of the things I love of the few places of Mexican Jungle I been, is that every time I go, extra to feels the wilderness of the jungle, to see all those beautiful greens in all the trees, Is that every time I go, I see one live, wild, free animal.

This time it was a toucan. only from a down point of view, since it was, in the top of a very high tree. But to hear it call, see it jump among the branches, even got a couple of photos. Its amazing how many beauties the jungle keeps inside.

Kisses
Jessica, who still dreams of the jungle

Queen Fall

Queen Fall

So what did the biological entity did the weekend before the hurricane hit.
Spent time buying supplies, no, already had a few
Maybe preparing the house to support the rain, No, it really there was not much to protect.
Perhaps, going through the city looking for scape routes, Negative, the is only the bridge to go out the island.

You know one effect of a hurricane, is that it sucks all cloud and humidity in the surrounding areas, which made a promise of a clean sky.

So I decided to make a trip to Chiapas, wanted to go a bit far, but due to the long work nights during the week, couldn't wake up as early as I wanted, so the Palenque Area was as far as I went.

This time, instead of visiting the Pyramids, I decided to take the inside the Jungle trail.

There is in there a nice group of Waterfalls, of which the Queens Bath (named that way, since is believed that the Mayan Queen of Palenque used to bath there) is the prettiest.

But then, once arriving, surprise, it was dry, apparently rain season is really coming that late, the it was just the rock formation.

Yet that made an amazing spectacle in itself, to see the shapes the rocks have taken afters years and years of being rounded, shaped, modified by the pass of water.

I posted Black and white since I believe it shows the shadows and shapes in a cleaner way than color. Crazy Jessica

Kisses
Jessica

Mayan Drawings

Mayan Drawings

Near calcetok there is another cave, smaller one
The important thing about this one is that on the roof there are some drawings, in theory made by the Mayans.
This Cave is special because the entrance is oriented to the north. thats probably why they selected as a sacred place, and they made the drawings.

Calcetok Caves

Calcetok Caves

This photo is of the entrance of the Calcetok Caves
The Calcetok Caves are the biggest, longest caves in the peninsula of Yucatan.

they are very impressive.

They offer different guided tours inside the caves, from the simple walk in to the main vaults, to the all adventure tour which you have to crawl through the mud, climb walls, go down in cave holes. Of course you need an extra set of clothes.
Me thinks I must return later to do that.

The caves have seen various uses during the time.

During the early mayan times, Mayas used them as ceremonial place.
Later apparently was used as a sacred burial place , the guide tells about a place were they found 10 beheaded skeletons.
Later, during the "war of the castes", the people used them to hide there.

During the spanish colonia, they were also used as hiding place.

Now they are a big tourist attraction.

Kisses
Jessica the cave girl.

Henequen

Henequen

This are the Henequen fibers

Once dried the are used to do a lot of things. like ropes, bags, hats, clothes, furniture.

Ropes made of henequen are long lasting. And the fiber is flexible enough to bend without breaking.

During a lot of time henequen was a very prosperous industry, that created huge fortunes in Yucatan.

Then the synthetics fibers, plastics arrived, being cheaper and easier to produce, an in bigger volumes, and so Henequen was no longer profitable.

Hacienda

Hacienda

I am going to do a little pause of the Canada Trip pictures, to show about the pictures of this weekend Trip.

Why???

Because.

So this one was taken in an Hacienda in Yucatan.

The Hacienda Ochill.

Haciendas existed all around Mexico during the time of spanish ruling. Dedicated to agriculture and similar.

In Yucatan, the main product was Henequen, and large Haciendas were built around it.

White Heron Tree

White Heron Tree

And to end, this week of birds from Celestun and flamingos.

A beautifull white Heron

That white, it's so immaculate.

Kisses
From Jessica the crazy freak

Mangle Hawk

Mangle Hawk

I know this one is some kind of Hawk

So I call it the Mangle Hawk

Cormoran.

Cormoran.

I was told that this one is called Cormoran in Spanish.

Has a nice blue eye.

Duckies

Duckies

Some kind of Duck

Bye Pelican Bye

Bye Pelican Bye

Out of frame, but I actually like it that way

Flamingo Kiss

Flamingo Kiss

Not sure if it was a Kiss, or a fight.