More Uxmal

Look, we were there too!

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Even when the background was blurry!

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This is Matt in front of the building with all the doves nesting in the roof, which is called the house of the doves.

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This is the governor’s house

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This is some ruins

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These stairs make the most convincing chirping noise we’ve ever heard when you clap in front of them. Kerri tried to clap Jingle Bells.

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The big temple makes a chirping noise too. Any solid stone staircase will actually make a chirping noise.

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But they think the Mayans may have done it on purpose, whereas all the ones in Europe were by accident.

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This is another building that was named by another explorer who didn’t have a clue what the building was actually for.

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We stood in front of the big pyramid.

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Iguanas stand in front of things too.

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Birds stand on top of things

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But vultures don’t chirp, so the vulture wasn’t making the noise, the stairs were. They do sound remarkably like a quetzal though.

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Iguanas sometimes sit on top of buildings too.

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This tree has an eye.

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