Episode 13: Campeche and Merida, including Kabah and Uxmal
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Episode 13: Campeche and Merida, including Kabah and Uxmal
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In this episode I reach the Yucatan Peninsula and find it extremely hot! I go to the fine colonial city of Campeche and then to Merida, the capital of Yucatan state. I couch surf with a slightly odd fellow and go on a day trip to visit the beautiful Mayan sites of Kabah and Uxmal in the Puuc region.
Notes:
1. La Malinche translated from Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs) to Yucatecan Maya (the language of her employers). Jeronimo de Aquilar, the shipwrecked friar, then translated from Maya to Spanish, obviously - not English as I say in this podcast!
2. The square city planned by Foster and Partners is Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. It aims to be a model for sustainable urban living, based on the planning principles of an old walled city with narrow streets. It seems that, to an extent the plan has worked and the temperature is significantly cooler than the surrounding desert. Geoffrey West, in his book, `Scale`, argued that a square city was a terrible idea because cities should evolve organically, in line with the needs of their inhabitants.