Chichen Itza & Tulum Travel Guide

Travel video about destination Chichen Itza & Tulum in Mexico. On the Mexican peninsula of YUCATAN, the Maya founded Chichen Itza, ‘City of Pyramids’, in the fifth century.Relief-type pictures and sculptures describe the customs and gruesome rituals of this submerged yet advanced civilisation. Stone pillars and mosaic tiles show the highly-developed culture of the Maya people and complex images illustrate their advanced knowledge of astronomy, mathematics and architecture. Here, the harmony of god-given life was maintained only by the strict fulfilment of all the divine commandments. This, however, called for many human sacrifices…