In Atlantis the Pyramids Had Three Sides?

In a blog post entitled, The Lost City of Atlantis, Joe Schmidt claims that the Atlanteans had three-sided rather than four-sided pyramids. Following, please find an excerpt from his online article:

The Atlanteans powered their city with crystals that stored the Sun’s energy and stored information. The Atlanteans were the original pyramid makers and their pyramids had only three sides unlike the newer pyramids which had four sides.

The Lost City of Atlantis posted by Joe Schmidt

Yucatan Peninsula Travel Movie Begins

Today I did a good first draft of the preview of the sequel to the Yucatan Travel Movie. It is called, Yucatan Peninsula Travel: From Merida to Palenque and will go deeper into the Yucatan than Yucatan Travel: Day Trips from Cancun.

Intriguing PC Game about the Lost City of Atlantis

This looks interesting – a computer game about an archeologist looking for descendants of Atlantis. I have to warn you, though, that if you go to the link below , the web site is full of very annoying, impossible to get rid of pop-ups.

Archaeologist Samantha Swift travels the globe searching for the lost tribes of Atlantis. The descendants of the lost city have spread out over the globe and each one holds a special key that, when brought together, can tune into the Senses and unite the tribal elders with the spirit world.

Samantha Swift and the Mystery of Atlantis PC Game

Mu Author’s Descendent Studies Churchward’s Writings

You have got to check out this amazing blog site. It is written and maintained by Jack Churchward who is a grandson or great-grandson of James Churchward, considered by many to be the authority on the Lost Continent of Mu. James Churchward’s first book was called, Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man and was published in 1926.

Jack obviously enjoys studying his ancestor’s writings and thoughts . . . and also comparing these writing with modern-day scientific discoveries. In many cases, Jack shows how James’ writings have been disproved by modern science.

We constantly see a great deal written about the ruins of Yucatan and Central America. These writings appear to be exclusively guess work. Herewith is a short synopsis of the history of Yucatan, based on Maya writings, Maya inscriptions, Hindu records, Egyptian records, and Greek writings, and geological phenomena.

Synopsis of the Earliest History of Central America and Yucatan

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

I enjoyed this YouTube video which combines the music of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Schaherazade with intriguing sketches drawn by Frederick Catherwood used as illustrations in John L. Stephens’s Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, published in 1843. I enjoying seeing some of the ruins I had visited while filming the Yucatan Travel Movie such as the palace at Sayil. Compared to the sketch of the unexcavated ruin which appears to be semi-buried under a hill of dirt, the present-day ruin is lovely.

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan YouTube Video

Yucatan Travel Movie Audio Almost Finished

Really happy today because the audio tracks on the Yucatan Travel Movie are almost all finished and well balanced at last. I’m just waiting for Miriam Balsley, the narrator, to arrive next week to add a little bit to the narration.

Mysterious Stone Spheres are a Map to Atlantis?

I love it how just about anything weird and inexplicable is often attributed to Atlantis. Take a look at the following excerpt. The rest of the article goes on to say that director of the University of Kansas’ Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program John Hoopes says that because of the mysterious nature of the huge spherical rocks, they have “inspired a lot of crackpot theories, most notably that the spheres are an archaic guide to Atlantis.”

I’d have to agree with Hoopes. How could anyone possibly get a map from these stone spheres?

The mysterious, almost perfectly spherical stone balls dotting the Costa Rican landscape may soon be up for UNESCO World Heritage status. But who built them circa 600 AD? Are they a map to Atlantis, or something even weirder?

The Mysterious Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

Check out the site for a photo of the spheres and some delightful, amusing, occasionally ribald comments by clicking on the above link.

Song: The Battle for the Yucatan Peninsula

A 17-year-old St. Xavier High School Senior from the Louisville Kentucky area won a $16,000 academic and “travel adventure” scholarship for a project that included a musical composition, played on violin, about the Yucatan Peninsula.

The application process included creating a project related to this year’s expedition. William wrote a musical piece called “The Battle for the Yucatan Peninsula,” or “La Batalla por Peninsula Yucatan.”

Achiever: William Thompson-Arjona | St. X student wins travel scholarship to Spain

His travel scholarship includes a trip to Spain and then to Yucatan to follow the path of the Conquistadors. In the online Courier-Journal.com newspaper article, William Thompson-Arjona describes the three attempts the Spanish made to conquer the Yucatan.

In the Yucatan Travel Movie, we go to Valladolid, a delightful colonial town that tourists seldom visit. Today it is a peaceful place but in the 1800s, it was the place where the Caste War began. In the Caste War, the Yucatecans tried to throw off the yoke of the Spanish conquerers . . . and almost succeeded.

Reserve Rooms Now: Hotel Discounters Price War

If you’re planning Yucatan Travel in the near future, you might want to check out the following Miami Herald article on price wars among hotel discounters. I reserved a number of Cancun hotel rooms, which were highlighted in the Yucatan Travel Movie, through online hotel discounters.

Four major hotel discounters and deal-finders are enjoying record popularity, all because of a substantial drop in both individual and group bookings at America’s hotels.

Fierce price war breaks out among hotel discounters

Beach Sand Replenishment at Cancun

A triangular strip of sand that looks like a number seven (7) attached to the the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula provides the world-reknown white sand beaches of Cancun’s hotel zone. Unfortunately, these beaches, so vital for the Yucatan tourism industry, were badly eroded during the devastating category five hurricane Wilma in 2005.

The Post-Bulletin says that:

As a result, local government started a $71-million beach restoration project in September 2009. Most of the work was done by the beginning of this year. All told, more than 1.3 billion gallons of sand was pumped from the ocean.

Travel Scene: Cancun Completes Beach Restoration

This is good.

The Yucatan Travel Movie visits Yucatan Peninsula travel locations within a day’s drive of Cancun.