Yucatan Journal: October 6 - November 1, 2007

Donald and Teresa Yates spent a month in Yucatan in 2007. This day-by-day account of their travels there is the result. From Ek Balam, the country's "newest ruin," where their guide is the grandson of one of the "knowledge people" who once ruled it, to Mayapan, the last Maya city to be abandoned, inhabited now only by the howler monkeys that were the patron gods of its poet-kings, they give us their impressions and present their favorite images of a culture that is very much alive if you know where to look and the right questions to ask.