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Today was day one of the motorcycle group ride to Monticello. We started from Socorro, made our way to Magdalena, visited the VLA and enetered the Monticello box. We spent the night in Truth and Consequences. Tomorrow we ride again.
Chaco is remarkable for its monumental public and ceremonial buildings, and its distinctive architecture. To construct the buildings, along with the associated Chacoan roads, ramps, dams, and mounds, required a great deal of well organized and skillful planning, designing, resource gathering, and construction.
Imposing as it may have been, Tulúm was built around 1200AD as the Mayan civilization declined and lacks the elegance of earlier structures. For instance, whilst earlier Maya buildings typically had vaulted roofs, the ones in Tulúm were often flat and have consequently fallen much sooner.
The layout of the site is unusually structural, with parallel streets surrounded by walls originally five meters high and seven meters deep. Most of the walls can still be seen, indeed the present day entrance to the ruins is as it was in ancient times, through a gate on western side of the fortifications.
Today was day one of the motorcycle group ride to Monticello. We started from Socorro, made our way to Magdalena, visited the VLA and enetered the Monticello box. We spent the night in Truth and Consequences. Tomorrow we ride again.