Day Four

Today we went to Coba, a Mayan village and ruins in the jungle. No kidding, in the jungle :). It was amazing! The ruins date back to 300-900 AD. There are over 6500 ruins there but only about 5% have been rebuilt are in good enough condition that you can see what they are. We can't wait to show you all the pictures but here is the pyramid (oldest one in Mexico) we were able to climb. It is 140 (I think?) feet tall and we climbed 120 steps to the top.

Yeah, we made it! From the top is a beautiful view of tree tops, a couple of lakes in the distance and a long way down :).

Then we walked through the jungle to have a Mayan blessing from a shaman (medicine man). We couldn't understand anything he said but it was cool :).
After that we repelled down to a 2000 yr. old cave with a blue cenote (water) at the bottom. Dad was so excited, he was hoping they would let him jump into the water instead of repel down but they wouldn't let him :(. The water was cold but crystal clear. There isn't any rivers here. They are all underground. It was awesome but I was a little frightened, it was dark, there were bats down there and yes I got pooped on by a bat :)! So glad we did though, definetely not an everyday event. We took some pictures with a waterproof camera so I can't put them on here yet. Then we walked some more and took a zipline across a lake. So fun!!


Needless to say it was a great day and we had a blast together! Can't wait to tell you all about it. Love you!