Gadling goes to Chichen Itza (and so does everyone else)

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We visited Chichen Itza last December and allowed ourselves to be talked into a day trip to Ek Balam and Ria Lagartos.

I give an enthusiastic two thumbs up for Ek Balam which is a beautiful Late Classic site and, on the day of our visit, almost completely deserted. The climb up the pyramid is completely worth it. At the top there are amazing sculptures of human figures, very graceful and life-like, unlike many of the very stylized figures you see on stelae, pots, etc.

The trip to Ria Lagartos was sadly a bust. It was a very long way, very hot and the hordes of flamingos we went to see in their natural habitat had decamped for a remote area of industrial-looking salt flats. If you're going to make the trip, probably better to plan to spend the night somewhere nearby. We were racing against the night on the way home...not something you ever want to do in Mexico!

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