Mysteries of Ancient Chacchoben | Plus Bacalar, and the Gran Cenote of Tulum

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Your Mom was right. This is a great video. Thanks.

[@freakrx2349]

I remember visiting Chaccoben and Tulum a couple of years ago. It’s still an incredible experience seeing the Mayan ruins

[@alexstewart9747]

Yay. Sightseeing and history lessons. Love it. Thanks guys.

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Our pleasure!

[@Armyjay]

Key Caulker is where I’ve stayed. It’s changed A LOT! There were no hotels, only sparse rooms and huts to rent. We had to pay a fisherman to take us there from Belize City as there was no dedicated transport back then. I love it.

[@mcgie2002]

Aaahh… Caye Caulker ☺️ Good memories

[@dougreimer2912]

Really enjoy your vlog of your travels in southern Mexico. My wife and I visited Chichen Itza, Tulum and Merida years ago and it was a memorable and fascinating trip.Your vids really expand that experience.

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Glad you liked it, Doug. They were fun places to visit!

[@jackcotner8981]

Visited there in 2000. Enjoyed the video (as I do all your excellent presentations).

[@joannwiley8026]

I just LOVE this video. Thank you for sharing it with us. I just wish I had the money to go. It looks amazing on video!

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Getting there is the most expensive part. Once you're there, it's fairly cheap.

[@joannwiley8026]

@@WorldofAntiquity Hopefully! One day, maybe! Thank you for answering! God bless you guys!

[@neva_nyx]

We visited Tulum in 2003. Parts were roped off then. Within a few months to a year, reports came out of excavations finding remains and offerings in the Grand Cenote.

[@esvegateban]

Man, did you miss Ek Balám? It has a HUGE crocodile jaw on top of a super wide pyramid. Kohunlich? It has enormous Mayan faces on the sides of a pyramid and some impressive stairs that lead to what feels like another city inside the city. Dzibanché and Kinichná are smaller but they have a very tall pyramid. Cobá? That one goes without saying you have to go, superb tall pyramid and with two underground cenotes you do after, incredible (oh, nevermind!). Oxtankah? That one has the ruins of a Spanish church inside the Mayan ruins! Chacchoben, incredibly, is the one I'm missing. I spend time in the zone regularly because an uncle built an hotel in Bacalar, yes, more beautiful (and cheaper) than the one you stayed in (I took some of the pictures that adorn the rooms and hotel, so of course it's more beautiful ;) ), if I had known I would have contacted you for a discount. Currently I'm not in the zone, and watching your video makes me wonder, yet again, what the devil I'm doing in central Mexico.

[@salinagrrrl69]

You are living the Corona commercial. I travel with via YT. Twaz sad to see the eroded stelle. 1970s I saw on the PBS station explores in an unexplored Maya city turn over a face down stelle protected from time & element. It was near perfect & beautiful. I still recall one explorer loooooong whistle at it.

[@pedrovlogsviajeros5521]

Hello worlds of antiquity. I have a question. What are the most impressive Mayan sites you have visited?

[@MrShankaPerera]

When I see you relax and enjoy the beach, the question came to my mind is, did our ancestors feel the same ? did they enjoy the nature as we do in the present day. btw, a nice video :-)

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Good point. Yes, I think they probably felt the same way.

[@joannwiley8026]

I bet they did.

[@freakrx2349]

That is a legitimate perk of establishing a civilization in a tropical environment.

[@nolathenerd6097]

David - you're a natural ! I loved that you showed where your car was going ; also that you were able to eat without getting Montezuma's revenge. Beautiful video, and interesting dialogue. Did mom tell you that she and your dad were also in Tulum?

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Thanks, Nola! No, I did not hear that. She and MY dad?

[@andypowell4538]

Mexico looks lovely thanks

[@johnpalmer5357]

Fantastic as always! Tweeted!

[@WorldofAntiquity]

Awesome, thank you!

[@salinagrrrl69]

An over all map of the MAYA of sites explored & unexplored would be great except it could be a guide for lootets.

[@WorldofAntiquity]

They exist.

[@patrickscarr]

Dr. Miano! Is that a tattoo?! OMG! I didn't know you had a tattoo! I never pegged you as the tattoo type. I couldn't see it clearly though, what is it? Also, are you and Cassy a couple? If not, you should be. She's much younger than you, but you still make a good couple. :)

[@WorldofAntiquity]

I just realized that was the first time I showed it on camera. Yeah, I got it about 6 years ago. It's a reproduction of an Assyrian sphinx.