Tuesday at Coba

After spending about one and a half hours at Tulum we drove another 30 minutes into the interior to Coba. Before going to the archeological site we had an early lunch in the small town outside Coba. This is where I stayed for three nights almost twenty years ago.



Coba was a huge city of 50,000 or more people scattered over a very large area. It is now mostly a scrub forest. Phil should have taken some pictures of the forest, but did not. Behind Alexander and Fred is Nohoch Mul the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan.



Alexander climbed Nohuch Mol to scan the flat Yucatan landscape. The expanse of forest provides some sense of Coba´s isolation. When walking beneath the trees many shapeless piles of rock can be seen which were once carefully wrought limestone buildings. While Coba is almost certainly the most significant site we will visit, it is also the least fully known and very little restoration has been done.

We spent about three hours at Coba. We left Cancun at 7 AM and returned about 3:30 in the afternoon. All three of us were plenty tired. Alexander and Fred both had cheeseburgers for dinner. Fred asked for an Old Fashioned, but was given straight brandy on ice. Wednesday we all get to sleep in.