Mexico

Our family visited Mexico just for a weekend opporchancity on our way back from Houston to Dubai in 1990. We visited Merida, capital of the Yucatan Peninsula, an area of land more famously known for Cancun, the Ibiza for Texans. In the area were the pyramids of Tikal, and various other Mayan ruins.

This is the hotel we stayed at in Merida, a fairly simple place but with lots of Mexican charm - ?karamba!

Games were played even in Mayan times - this was the first ever basketball court. There were no rules (as all games should be) except to get the pig's stomach through the hoop. The winning team had the honour of slaughtering the losers and lobbing the captain's head through the hoop too.

The pyramids deep in the Mexican jungle - as mysterious in their purpose as their Egyptian counterparts - perhaps built by the same space aliens? Some might say...

More pyramids. These ones were quite small compared to the pyramids at Giza, however Mexico holds claim to the largest pyramid, near Mexico city the Pyramid of the Sun. It is even more massive than the Great Pyramid of King Khufu.