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nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:03:51 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:56:47 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:56:25 -0800

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)

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:16 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:54:19 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:53:36 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:52:35 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:51:54 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:50:58 -0800

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

nobody@vox.com(Danielle Carcia) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:09:13 -0800

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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