Saint Greg's Sailabration - LIVE - Carnival Glory March 5th-13th 2022

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Once we arrived in Kohunlich we had another opportunity to use the facilities prior to starting the tour. The driver gave us more waters before we started.
 

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Kohunlich is actually a mispronounced version of Kohun Ridge. Kohuns are the type of palm trees in the area.
 

 

[WhaleTailFlCruiser]

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

If they do this show here I’d like to see it. Missed it in playa del Carmen.

anyone seen it here?

Yeah it’s pretty cool they usually do it in the morning and then afternoon again

[WhaleTailFlCruiser]

5 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

Once we arrived in Kohunlich we had another opportunity to use the facilities prior to starting the tour. The driver gave us more waters before we started.
 

I did that one during my B2B last year will be interested to see what you think

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On the short walk from the entrance to the ceremonial area we encountered many howler monkeys.
 

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Kohunlich has three temples, a ball court, and many residential buildings. 20 thousand people lived in Kuhonlich and the surrounding areas.

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Back when people lived here these buildings were covered with stucco and most were painted red.

 

This is the first of three temples

 

 

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These are residential buildings. 
 

 

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Across from the residential area is the palace 

Back in December in Xunantunich on that large structure El Castillo we talked about how that building was originally smaller and over time they just added onto it and it became what it is now on the third or fourth iteration. You can see an example of that on a smaller scale here where they added onto an older building with newer stones in front of the older stones.

 

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[sanmarcosman]

35 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

Kohunlich is actually a mispronounced version of Kohun Ridge. Kohuns are the type of palm trees in the area.

AHHHHH 

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This room had a balcony looking out onto the plaza. In the middle of the plaza is what’s left of the podium area. This is where sacrifices or other ceremonies and celebrations would take place. 

 

 

Edited March 10, 2022 by Saint Greg

[Saint Greg]

On the other side of the plaza you can see steps which were used as seating. Down below the balcony was more seating that was destroyed when the first people who entered this area in the early 1900’s dynamited that area looking for an entrance to this building. It’s believed the balcony actually came out further but that portion was destroyed by the dynamite.

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In the back there are a couple of tunnels which were not in use. They had a shortage of limestone in this area so they would in some cases take stones from older buildings to build new ones in this case they either left these areas hollow to save on the stones or they removed stones to build up other areas. These tunnels have started to collapse which is why they’re roped off now.

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This is the side portion of the palace area.

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As soon as your excursion bus stops and picks you up you'll soon be back on the Glory!

Edited March 10, 2022 by sanmarcosman

[Saint Greg]

This is the podium area of the plaza

 

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On the other side of the plaza is The stela temple. We talked a lot about stelas when I was in Coba. They had many of them there. I stela was found in front of the stela temple which is where the name comes from. 
 

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When the sunset from the stela temple is line perfectly with the center of this temple, it is April 13th which is the start of their agricultural season. In Chichen Itza they used the sunrise instead of the sunset. Theirs started March 21st.