Cobá
Ruins
Quintana Roo, México
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A walk from
Chichen Itza, actually from Yaxuná, located just south of Chichen Itza,
to Coba would take about two and a half days in the hot tropical sun. Yet the
ancient Maya made this walk on a regular basis. A sacbé, Maya for
"road," actually "white road," connects the two cities. On the other hand, a
walk around the ruins of Coba could also take a couple days.
What a wonderful city Cobá
must have been. Located around one of the few surface water lake systems in the
northern Yucatán, a days walk to Tulum on the Caribbean coast, it's no
wonder Coba ruled the northern lowlands throughout the Classic Period.
Cobá is actually a metropolis made of several closely built centers
connected by a series of sacbés. Today most of the site is still
largely covered by jungle although restoration to several areas is underway,
most notably the Ballcourt in the Cobá Group.
