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rnetges: This is an amazing adults-only resort near Playa del Carmen, highly recommended!
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rnetges: Missing the canadian winter?
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rnetges: On the way to the beach...
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rnetges: Great place to relax and do your emails
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rnetges: Healthy breakfast (the bacon and eggs are just outside the picture frame LOL)
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rnetges: Main restaurant, by the pool and the beach
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rnetges: The main bar in the resort, would be packed at night.. great for people-watching!
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rnetges: Endless stairs, the setting sun would make shadows crawl down like the mayan serpent, very cool
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rnetges: Jaguar carvings, numbers and dates marked on the temples
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rnetges: Cool pyramids
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rnetges: This is the great pyramid of Chichen Itza!
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rnetges: Our guides were really knowledgable, from Maya descent
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rnetges: Most carvings depicted the sacred snake or the mighty jaguar
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rnetges: Chichen Itza archeological site
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rnetges: Human sacrifice anyone?
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rnetges: An altar to the jaguar god
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rnetges: Serpent head "eating the pyramid", view from the stadium
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rnetges: Mayans liked ball games, similar to a basketball net...
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rnetges: This is the ball game player.. note the similarities w/ a hockey outfit... could Canadians have descented from Mayans???
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rnetges: Whatever you do, don't lose that game!
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rnetges: The jaguar and the sacred circle
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rnetges: The human figure was an altar for human sacrifice... creepy..
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rnetges: The same temple used for sacrifices also depicted a baby coming out of the stones... apparently this was a 'circle of life' thing.