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July 9, 2007
Chichen Itza, Mexico
This famous and sacred Mayan site, located in the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mexico, is about one thouand years old and showcases the Mayan-Toltec civilisation. The Kukulcan temple, also called El Castillo and the Temple of the Warriors, are both focal points of Chichen Itza.
Some facts you probably did not know:
The word Chichen Itza means at the mouth of the well of the Itza, which seems to indicate its location near a limestone swallow hole (depression filled with water).
Chichen-Itza was once part of a hacienda that was purchased by a man named Edward Thompson who had visions of building a hotel. Fortunately history -- the arrival of the Mexican revolution -- nixed that plan.
Image: The Kukulcan Temple, which is part of the Chichen Itza complex. Photograph: Marte Rebollar/AFP/Getty Images
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