Izamal’s Pre- and Post-Columbian Wonders

Izamal is a small city and you don’t need a lot of time to familiarize yourself with it, but what you will need are sturdy legs. After climbing to the top of the ancient Maya pyramid Kinich Kakmó, and then up the stairs to the Convent of San Antonio de Padua, we had to find a bench and take a break.

Kinich Kakmó is just one of many pyramids which still define the horizon of Izamal, but it’s by far the biggest. This enormous pile of rocks and grass just keeps going up, up, up until you can see...