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Where a large selection of ancient pottery and idols may be seen still in the positions where they were left in Pre-Columbian times.
Balankanche is an ancient Maya cave site lying at short distance from the archaeological Maya-Toltec city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan. For more than two thousand years, it has been the focus of rituals dedicated to the Maya rain god, Chaac, and, in the Post-Classic period, also to his Toltec counterpart, Tlaloc. The cave complex was visited by Edward Thompson and Alfred Tozzer in 1905 and has since 1932 been explored and studied by various Mexican and US scholars. Small buildings and platforms surrounded the cave's entrance; inside, stairs, walls, altars and ritual displays of ceramics and small stone implements were discovered. The site has been made accessible for tourists.
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Beautiful cenote where you can jump from the "cliff" into the sparkling waters. Changing rooms, showers, lockers available. About 3 km from the archaeological site.
palace with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
circular temple on a rectangular platform, also sacred to Kukulcan, served as an astronomical observatory. .
El Castillo
The most famous landmark of Chichen Itza. This was a temple-pyramid dedicated to the Feathered Serpent God, Kukulcan. It is nicknamed "The Castle". Sculptures of the Feathered Serpents run down the sides of the northern staircase, and are set off by shadows from the corner tiers on the Spring and Fall equinox. (Since 2006, you can not climb El Castillo.).