Yucatan - December 2007
Chichen Itza
Principal Plaza
Great Ball Court

The Great Ball Court has 3 interesting temples (the North Temple or the Temple of the Bearded Man, the South Temple, and the Temple of the Jaguars and the Shields) incorporated into it, along with some graphic and gruesome carvings along the walls of the ball court of people getting their heads cut off.


The ball court has unusual acoustics, which the guides love to show tourists like us :-)


The Great Ball Court is the largest Mayan ball court that I have seen among all of the Mayan cities that I visited.  Again, I did not feel anything at the Ball Court.

The Great Ball Court, seen from the Pyramid of Kukulcan, in the Principal Plaza at Chichen Itza
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