This page is our selfie tour of Mexico to view the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse and
some Archaeological Sites
If really interested, each picture will link to a full size version on this page
so come "back" to here
Getting there
KLM Business lounge at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Background of model Dutch Houses
Welcome to Business Class
Not quite sitting next to each other, though
Mexico City - Barcelo Reforma Hotel
After a long set of flights
We spend some time in the Swimming Pool of the Barcelo Hotel
A free day in Mexico City (25000+ steps!)
Some interesting artwork - obscured bu us
Lunch in "Pirates"
Main Square - Mexican flag flying
Monument to the Revolution
Place de La Republica
Xochimilco - Floating Gardens
A boat trip through the Gardens
At the Entrance / Exit
Coyoacán
Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul)
Frida Kahlo portrait on house end
Back to Mexico City and Dining at Noreste Grill - Carne and Salsa
Teotihuacan - MesoAmerican Temple Site: unsure if Mayan or Aztec
Site entrance leading to...
...The Temple of the Sun
Temple of the Moon
The plaza in front of the Temple of the Moon
Back in Mexico City
Adelita Café - below the Monument to the Revolution
Torreon - Eclipse Day
At the Eclipse Site
Chapingo Autominous University
(Agricultural University)
Iglesia Cristo De Las Noas, Torreon
Coba Archaeological Site
Entrance to the site
Nohoch Mul Pyramid
Cancun, Yucatan Peninsula
On "Cancun Pier" - some taken up by a restaurant
Paddling in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea
El Rey Archaeological Site, Cancun
Heavy rain puddled up some of the site
Tulum
Behind L-R: Temple of the Descending God and El Castillo
From the right:
"House of the Chultun" and the columns of "House of the
Frescos"
Chichen Itza
El Castillo (Pyramid of Kukulcan)
The Observatory
Merida
Plaza Grande, Merida with illuminated Catedral de San Ildefonso
Uxmal
Pyramid of the Magician
The Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid, but
closer
Palenque
Agua Azul Cascades
San Christobal de las Casas
A setting sun in the town Square
In the Hotel, waiting to depart - Suzanne liked background