Estelas Yaxchilan

Estelas Yaxchilan

One of the architectural beauties in some Mayan sites, are the Estelas (I don't know if there is a word in english).

Used to mark a date or event, or to honor a ruler, king, warrior.

The Amazing thing about them is the great level of details they have, the esthetical balance, all the artistic feeling they convey.

And sometime, some of them are huge, big.

Definitively the work of amazing mayan artists from the past.

And here are two of the Estelas, that can be seen in Yaxchilan.

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Jessica

Yaxchilan Pyramids

Here are a couple of pyramid tops from the Yaxchilan Archeological Site.

It's a nice archeological site, bit of climbing.
According to what it said, the rulers of Yaxchilan, also ruled over Bonampak.

Nice decorations on the Pyramids tops.

Must have been a really nice place, and with lots of riches due to a very fertile land, and being next to the Usumacinta River.

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Jessica