Danielle Carcia’s blog Vox 2008-03-19T21:49:11Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398c3afed0003/ RECENT UPDATES!! tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300f48cfff2a70001 2008-03-05T03:03:51Z 2008-03-19T21:49:11Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom sorry it has been so long since ive posted..especially mom and aunt edye. Internet has been scarce so i posted some of my more interesting blogs from the past few weeks. i will try and write more so you can see and even update pictures but we have...

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]]> Tulum--the prettiest City tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300f48ce1443b0003 2008-03-05T02:56:47Z 2008-03-05T04:09:16Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Above is my favorite picture of this site. It is absolutely breathtaking. Tulum is an East Coast city and therefore had much different architecture than we are used to seeing. East coast style is a very pla...

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]]> Loltun Cave and Mani tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398e2d8530005 2008-03-05T02:56:25Z 2008-03-05T04:14:42Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Loltun Cave and Mani (above picture is of me banging on a part of the cave that then makes an echo) After my disappointment with the last cave we went to at Oxkintok I was not excited to go to Loltun Cave even though I knew of much of its legiti...

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]]> Kiuic (first Jungle Experience) tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300f48ce144210003 2008-03-05T02:55:16Z 2008-03-05T04:44:54Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Leaving Merida a city of over 1 million people for the middle of nowhere jungle was a very strange bus ride. I was excited to see something new, but scared to see something so drastically different than what I have been used to for the past 5 wee...

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]]> Chichen Itza tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300f48ce132cf0002 2008-03-05T02:54:19Z 2008-03-05T03:48:54Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Chichen Itza Chichen Itza is the first site we have been to that dates to the Terminal Classic time period of 800 AD to 1100 AD. However, Chichen isn’t one of our normal sites; it has recently been named as a “new wonder of the world”...

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]]> Leaving Merida tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398e2cf700004 2008-03-05T02:53:36Z 2008-03-05T03:51:48Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Leaving Merida Merida itself however, was a LOVELY city. I enjoyed everything about it from the central square to the nightlife to the buses. I adored living in a city and feeling independent and it was something I will probably not ...

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]]> MACAY tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398e2cf580004 2008-03-05T02:52:35Z 2008-03-05T02:52:35Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Today a group of us went to the Museum of Contemporary art in Merida. I am not much of a museum person, and so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The only museums I have been to are those for Science, the Salvador Dali exhibit in Philadelphia and the ...

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]]> Bus Conversation tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398e2d7f90005 2008-03-05T02:51:54Z 2008-03-05T03:01:23Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Today on the bus, I was sitting with Will (a guy from England) when an older Mexican man wearing a sombrero and striped button down shirt moved from the front of the bus to where we were sitting and said, “can I practice my English with you”. Imm...

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]]> Country Lines and Thoughts tag:vox.com,2008-03-05:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398e2cf410004 2008-03-05T02:50:58Z 2008-03-05T02:50:58Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Something that I have been thinking about lately is the fact that for as long as I have known about Mayan People, I am pretty sure that I have always thought they were from Mexico. Now however I realize that I am very much mistaken and in fact th...

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]]> el palacio de gobernador tag:vox.com,2008-01-24:asset-6a00e398c3afed000300e398d578080004 2008-01-24T00:09:13Z 2008-03-05T04:17:16Z Danielle Carcia http://daniellecarcia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Today in culture class we went on a tour of many buildings including the Palacio de Gobernador of the Yucatan. The building is less of an actual building and more of a courtyard with murals on the wall (over 20) representing the history of the Yu...

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