Movie Trailer: Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza

Curious about what to expect when traveling in Yucatan, Mexico? My video, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza explores familiar travel destinations, such as Cancun, Tulum, and Chichen Itza, as well as little-known gems such as Ek Balam, Valladolid, and Izamal. Here’s the official trailer of the travelogue:

Yucatan Travel Movie now available for easy, inexpensive download & rental on Amazon

I am pleased to announce that the movie, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, is now available on Amazon for inexpensive rental or to buy downloadable.

Whether you’re interested in traveling to the Yucatan or you’re an armchair traveler who enjoys watching videos about foreign locales, you’ll enjoy Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza.

It is an authentic, genuine video made with a camcorder showing what you can expect if you travel to the Yucatan. Narrated by Miriam Balsley, who loves to travel in Latin American countries, she takes you both to well-publicized tourist destinations and also to relatively unknown gems, giving you a flavor of the wonderful, rich experience of travel in Yucatan.

Whether you’re after Mayan ruins, delectable native cuisine, shopping for crafts, or enjoying the turquoise water of the Riviera Maya, Yucatan Travel is for you.

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The Riviera Maya is in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula

The Riviera Maya is located along the northern Caribbean coast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo

In the map on the right, the Riviera Maya is the northern part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Riviera Maya extends along the extreme eastern coast of Quintana Roo along the Caribbean Sea (also on the right).

The popular Mayan ruins of  Coba and Tulum are in Quintana Roo as well as the modern tourist towns of Playa del Carmen and Cancun.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook.

The Land of the ancient Maya

The Yucatan Peninsula showing the location of Mayan ruins sites

As you can see from the map of the Yucatan Peninsula on the right, there are Mayan ruin sites in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco (where Tabasco Sauce comes from), and Chiapas.

There are also Mayan ruins in the countries of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

Of course, the ancient Maya–the ones who wrote the Mayan prophecies and made the Mayan calendar–did not think of the area as the map looks today with separate Mexican states and separate countries.

For them, it was all the land where they lived with different centers of power where large populations lived. These are today’s Mayan ruins sites.

And today, even though this land is separated into different countries and different Mexican states, it is still the land where the Maya live–the modern-day Maya who are the descendants of the ancient Maya.

The Maya have lived in this area for thousands of years.

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Cancun did not become an official part of Mexico until 1974

Cancun is in Quintana Roo, Mexico’s youngest state.

Quintana Roo is where Cancun is. Lots of people don’t know that Quintana Roo and Cancun did not even become a part of Mexico until 1974.

Although Quintana Roo was a territory of Mexico since 1905, it did not become an official state until October 8, 1974.

It is Mexico’s youngest state. Quintana Roo, like Yucatan, is a Mexican state in the Yucatan Peninsula, and is one of the states in Mexico where the Maya live.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 Book and End of the World 2012 EBook

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Where the Maya Live in Mexico

The Yucatan Peninsula

With all the information on the End of the World 2012 Mayan Prophecies, many people don’t know where the Maya live.

They live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which looks like a thumb sticking out from the “hand” of Mexico.

The top of the thumb is the state of Yucatan. Then, on either side, in the middle of the thumb are the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 EBook and the End of the World 2012 Book.

Carol Chapman director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie.

The Location of Yucatan in Mexico

A map of Mexico showing the location of Yucatan.

My husband and I love travelling in Yucatan. It is in southern Mexico. We find it very safe and enjoyable.

We love to go to Yucatan in the depths of the winter, because it is so wonderfully warm there.

If you look at a map of Mexico, it’s like a hand and the Yucatan is like a thumb. So, that’s the whole Yucatan Peninsula.

Excerpted from the End of the World EBook and the End of the World Book.

~ Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie

Many people believe the ancient Mayans died away

The Maya live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which is in southern Mexico, and also includes parts of northern Central America.

With all of the buzz about the Mayan Prophecies for December 21, 2012, some people believe that the Maya are a dead race–that there are no Maya alive today. I guess these people believe this since the 2012 Mayan prophecy was made by the ancient Maya, there must not be any modern Maya. Not so.

There’s so much talk about the Maya, but there aren’t many people who know who they are. The Maya are an indigenous group. They live in Central America in Mexico. As of the year 2000, there were seven million of them. They are the largest indigenous group in the Americas. According to some sources, they may be the largest indigenous group in the world.

They suffered under the Spanish who tried to annihilate them in the “Caste War.” It started in 1847 and lasted for 54 years ending on May 5th, 1901. The Spanish slaughtered the Maya, trying to totally get rid of them.

But the Maya people themselves are very determined and steadfast and are producing lots of babies. I have that on good authority that they are replenishing their numbers.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 EBook and the End of the World 2012 Book.

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the  End of the World 2012 Movie

Yucatan travelogue is also superbly discounted on Amazon for “Black Friday”

For travelers and armchair travelers alike, the Yucatan Travel Movie: Cancun to Chichen Itza is also superbly discounted on Amazon right now, from $16.95to $14.99.

New Page on this Blog: “Carol Chapman’s Videos” featuring the Yucatan Travel Movie

Yucatan Travel Movie DVD Case Front Cover

There’s a new page on Carol Chapman Live called, “Carol Chapman’s Videos.”

Our first feature is the Yucatan Travel Movie. For a full description including Bonus Features and About the Actor, Writers, and Director, please click here.

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