Yaxchlilan II
Tags: Chiapas, Maya ruins, Mexico, Yaxchilan
Date: March 19, 2019
Another beautiful building in Yaxchilan:
It contains a statue, probably of one of the late rulers called Bird Jaguar IV:
His head is sitting in the corner:
A carving over the doorway:
Another carving clearly showing the Maya hieroglyphs:
More ruins:
Yaxchilan has a place called the labyrinth. It is a relatively large indoor area with corridors on several levels. Here is the entrance:
Apart from bats, we also found a few other critters inside:
This last one is a tailless scorpion like the ones we saw in the caves in Puerto Rico.
Even more pictures of the ruins:
After a nice trip to the ruins, it was time to head back:
