Edzna Maya Mexico Ruin
During this year’s January 2008 travel to Yucatan, Mexico, we visited a ruin I hadn’t even heard of before. It turns out that Edzna is the location Mel Gibson chose to stage scenes from his movie about the ancient Maya, Apocalypto.
Edza is located south of the popular ruins of Tulum and Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. Unlike the more popular ruins, convoys of buses filled with tourists do not descend on the archeological site. Nonetheless, we discovered it to be beautiful. The main pyramid was built in five levels and is filled with chambers you can explore. It is one of the few pyramids in the Yucatan you can climb. Most of the more popular ones have been roped off.
