Posts in Tag: pre-Columbian history
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Tikal – Guatemala’s Mayan Masterpiece
This is my final post on our visit to Guatemala as part of Victor Romagnoli’s Central American odyssey for Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. Visiting every country on this vast isthmus that stretches almost 3,000 kilometres (1840 miles) from Colombia to Mexico has been an eye opening experience to say the least. I now understand […]
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Cholula – The World’s Largest Pyramid (Really!)
This morning on our continuing tour of Central Mexico with Adventures Abroad guide extraordinaire Victor Romagnoli we visited the amazing murals of Cacaxtla. This afternoon we are moving on to the nearby city of San Pedro Cholula where we will visit another astounding pre-Columbian sight, the Great Pyramid of Cholula which is the largest in the […]
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Central Mexico – Go With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from the inaugural Adventures Abroad tour of Central Mexico with veteran tour guide Victor Romagnoli, featuring the Day of the Dead festivities. All I can say is that it was eye-opening in every sense of the word and although I’ve travelled enough to know that one’s impressions of a […]