We established a base at "The Lodge", a deluxe hotel just at the entrance to Uxmal. It opened only last year, and had very reasonable prices for a hotel with a large room with fan, an extra-deluxe bath (complete with extra-large bathtub), a pool, TV and restaurant. We used this hotel as a base to visit other sites nearby (Sayil, Kabáh, Xlapak and Labná). Two other luxury hotels are on the site - the Hotel Villa Arqueológica and the Hotel Hacienda Uxmal. Other low cost accomodations can be found along the road near Cárdenas.
The name of site translates as "Place of the Ants". It is a small site.
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A Maya house similar to those built a thousand years ago. |
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Gran Palacio - a large palace with more than one hundred rooms and showing a number of Chac masks on the upper levels. |
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The Grand Palace, showing an image of the "upside down diving god", who also appears at Tulúm. |
