There are several ways you can visit Chichen Itza ruins. One way may be through a travel agency at your hotel. The Tours to Chichen Itza include air-conditioned transportation from your hotel. Halfway there is a stop to buy regional handicrafts. It is important to always keep close to your group.

Once reaching the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, the tour guide will explain the areas to be visited. Once you get to the Kukucan Pyramid (also known as El Castillo), the tour concludes and the group has some time off to take some pictures of Chichen Itza. Then there is a buffet included in the tour. Then you will be taken to a cenote (outside the ruins of Chichen Itza Archaeological Site) and then back to Cancun.

There is also the option to visit Chichen Itza ruins on your own, by bus or minibus. You pay an entrance fee and if you’re interested, you can hire the services of a tour guide there.

The nearest town is called Pisté, where the buses stop and where you can to stay overnight, eat and enjoy the warmth of its people, most of them descended from the Mayans and still keep their dress and customs.

You can also rent a car to go to Chichen Itza ruins. Rental cars cost about $ 50 a day. The toll road costs about 250 pesos mx. But it’s still cheaper because you travel a lot faster and more convenient than a tour and without stopping. The entrance to the Chichen Itza ruins costs $ 51 pesos.

The ruins of Chichen Itza Archeological Zone were inscribed on the List of World Heritage by UNESCO in 1988, 7 July 2007, was recognized as one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World,” by the recognition of millions of voters around the world.

An equinox is either of the two moments in the year when the sun is exactly over the Equator and the day and night are exactly the same length. Both solstices and equinoxes are simply stages of Earth’s orbit around the sun.

On December 21 we entered the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the shortest day of the year and we are moving towards the spring equinox, around March 21, after the summer solstice on June 21, finally the autumnal equinox, about Sept. 23, and then winter solstice again.

The spring equinox, which in the western hemisphere coincides with the start of the season of the same name, is about March 21 when the sun moves northward over the line of Equator.

The autumnal equinox occurs around September 23 when the sun crosses the Equator in its movement south. The exact time of equinox varies each year because of leap years.

The ruins of Chichen Itza archeological site and Dzibilchaltún are the two best places to appreciate the equinox. This is an archaeo-astronomical phenomenon, where Earth is illuminated by the sun the same way in the northern hemisphere and in the south.

On the evening of 21 March and 22 September during the spring and fall equinoxes, respectively, there is a solar projection consisting of seven triangles of light, inverted, as a result of the shadow of the nine platforms of the pyramid, at sunset, simulating the image of a snake down through the banisters of the stairs of the north staircase of the Kukulcan Pyramid or El Castillo at Chichen Itza.

This phenomenon of light simulates a snake descending majestically through the banisters of the stairs of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza. The first shadows of the pyramid begins to draw isosceles triangles that make up the body of the feathered serpent that seems to move slowly downward until the head of the snake reaches bottom of the balustrade.

When the last of the triangle reaches the base of the balustrade, all spectators stand up and raise their hands to absorb the positive energy that emanates from this phenomenon. All this process takes approximately 45 minutes.

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