{"id":569,"date":"2011-08-22T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:09:52","slug":"mexico-coba-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Coba Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one of the last days in Mexico, we went out to the Coba ruins.  They are about 50 km west of Tulum.  It was fantastic to visit inland ruins, especially to contrast with Tulum.  We enjoyed hiking through the jungle, but we missed info about closing time and were among the last few people being &#8220;shoed&#8221; out..  The Nohoch Mul pyramid was really fantastic:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#137\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2139.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here is Carrie (you can just barely make her out!) half way up the pyramid:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#141\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2145.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the top of the pyramid was a fantastic view of the jungle:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#153\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2159.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#147\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2152.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>As we walked through the jungle (on very good, wide trails) we would come across more ruins:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#125\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2126.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#124\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2125.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>We found this cool skull carving:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#130\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2131.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And we found proof of the original Mayan ipad!!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/#129\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/201108Mex\/imgs\/DSCF2130.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>(look at all those apps!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one of the last days in Mexico, we went out to the Coba ruins. They are about 50 km west of Tulum. It was fantastic to visit inland ruins, especially to contrast with Tulum. We enjoyed hiking through the jungle, but we missed info about closing time and were among the last few people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexico: Coba Ruins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-9b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}