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Friday Midday: Town of Acanceh

↓ Woman in a traditional dress.
A long petticoat, almost always lace, hangs several inches below the dress's hemline.
Note that these cargo tricycles are everywhere. ↓
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00cr trad dress

↓ Another traditional dress, we usually them with saw a shawl like this. ↓
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02 trad dress with shawl

↓ Loaded truck and speed bump sign.
When the truck had passed, we saw this next scene behind it... ↓
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03 truck

↓ Pig’s head and other unknown pieces of meat for sale at this home's front gate. ↓
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04 pigs head

↓ Wedding photo in a store. Very old looking, and very common site.
The man depicted in the photo was right there too. ↓
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05 old wedding photo

↓ Wooden framed cart being pushed by a motorcycle.
(Like the tricycles we've been seeing, but heavier duty.) ↓
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07 wood cart

↓ Building bleachers for the coming religious festival.
-- Cutting the wood plank with a hooked machete-looking thingy. ↓
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08 building bleachers

↓ Across this empty city block to more bleachers under construction. ↓
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09 across the square

↓ Multi-level bleachers with shade roofs; microwave and cell tower. ↓
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10 microwave and cell tower

↓ And directly across the street – their local pyramid.
We would have stopped of course, but we were too hungry. ↓
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11 pyramid

↓ Street scene with another tricycle and another shawled woman. ↓
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14 shawled woman

↓ Our translator who got us dinner.
We thought she worked there, but she was just a friendly customer who got to practice her English on us. ↓
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15 friendly person

↓ Two of our cooks in this little restaurant. The food was great too! ↓
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16 two cooks

↓ Third friendly cook at this establishment. ↓
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17 third cook

↓ Church towering over the big empty lot.
It must be their town square, but usually these have been park-like. ↓
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18 church

↓ The front view of another dressed up woman.
I finally got brave and asked for permission to snap a picture.

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19 wheres joe

↓ A parasol. Not an uncommon site. Oh, there's another trike. ↓
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23 parasol

↓ Elevated water barrels at the front of every house.
I expect there is a truck that comes around to fill them. ↓
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24 water barrels

↓ Bus stop where we got on the freeway at Ticopo. ↓
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32cr bus stop

↓ Map showing entire top half of the Yucatan peninsula.
This was from Kristine at The Flycatcher Inn. She marked our route for us. ↓
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33 map 1

↓ Close up of where we are now – the bus stop at Ticopo. ↓
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34 map 2

Chichen Itza this afternoon...


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