TRAVELER

How safe is it ?

Next year I want to visit Latin-America including Mexico and Brazil.

However, people tell me that its not safe.  My landlord for example, said she and her husband were travelling with a guide and another couple in a mini bus towards ChinChinitza when a policeman stopped them, and asked for money!!!

I'd like to know what impressions people have after travelling in Mexico in regards to safety.

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Aztec Empire

Mr. Javid,

The Aztec Empire lived at the same time as the Persian Empire. The Peruvian Empire lived in Peru. The Aztecs built their city in the middle of Lake Texcoco which was filled with deadly snakes. They did sacrifices by cutting heads off to their gods as offerings. That was one of their major sports. They went down the hill once the Spanish Catholics under Cortes burned their city down and killed thousands of them. The intermarriage between an Indian interpreter and a Spanish general formed the modern Mexicans or Mestizos (Half white/Half Indian). Only 20% of Mexicans are Spaniards today. They had an advanced calender and was based on 20 month cycle. Obviously, Pizzaro attacked Peru and ended Inca Empire, Magellan attacked Phillippines, Balboa discovered Pacific Ocean, Amerigo Vesspucci named AMERICA, and Columbus discovered West Indies and named the Natives INDIANS because he believed that he sailed into INDIA. The Aztecs should not be called INDIANS.

Traveler AND Photographer of the year

Hi JJ,

Thanks again for sharing with us.  You make me want to travel again soooo bad but I can't for now and am thankfull to you for bringing the ancient world to me through your lens.  Also, pic # 75 is exactly how I was going back down from Sheytan kooh in shomal on my visit back home and my nieces and nephews were laughing so hard making it harder for me to keep balance :))

God Bless you :)

A Couple of Things...

I got a couple of things I wanted to point out, and I figure this is as good as any other time for them.

1- Back in the day when I did an interview with Dr. Milani about his book, Eminent Persians, You thought I was Farrokh2000, and since I had not registered yet I thought that you went ahead and “zahmatesho keshidid” and registered me yourself, giving me that name.

So I said yes to your question asking me if that was my login and I also went ahead and registered with that name for google videos to upload the interview! So, please fix the name issue if it is not too much trouble.

2- I've known you online and through my correspondences with you for over a decade now. Just for what you are doing with this site for us and yourself, if not for the fact that we are both the same age and fathers to wonderful daughters of the same age, I like you very much. I have no doubt that if I were to have the privilege to actually meet you in person and hang with you a bit, I'll like you even more.

That's why when I ran into this: //iranpoliticsclub.net I totally lost it!!... Did you know about them?! I pinged their server and it is in the US! As a US citizen, can you not sue those bi#&^es for slander, amongst other things, or at least force them to take it down? Mr. Khalaji was very successful in shutting Hoder up, and at that, Hoder was a Canadian resident at the time…Do we have a lawyer in the house?

lucky you!!

Pictures are amazing!! Beautiful views, great history..

I sent the link to all my friends J, thank you for sharing this with us. I envy you, khosh be halet :)

Blistering Barnacles ... ;0)

JJ you are more and more becoming the re-incarnation of Tintin in Real Life. I'm Jealous ;0)

Have Fun ! ...

But Mind the Sun ! ;0)

Magnificent heritage

Just imagine if  Mayans & Inca,s were still on their own & isolated , bet their progress wouldn,t have been far off behind the western men .

Good job JJ

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sid sarshar

teotihuacan is an aztec name, but the ruins are not!  as you can see on the link provided above by jahanshah, there is a debate who originally built the ruins.  the original inhabitants are persumed to be either toltec, totonac, zapotec, mixtec, or maya people.  these structures were built sometime before christ and fluorished around "between 150 and 450."  aztecs came about, at earliest, in the 14th century.  (see //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec) by the way, mayans did live in the east of mexico (e.g., yucatan) where you can find chichen itza, tuluum and of course cancun! ;)

Looking good JJ jan!

Glad to see you having fun and thanks for the images. However, I love the way you used to include the info on each slide. Time permitting, please do the same in the future.

Damet garm.

Aztecs, not Mayans!

Teotihuacan was occupied by Aztecs, not Mayans.  Mayans lived in west of Mexico into Gutamala…..

JJ, Be sure to visit the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico city.  It is the best Mesa American Museum in North America if not the world.  Also, Visit the Virgin the Guadalupe church, it is just like going to Emam Reza Shrine in Mashhad.

Thanks

Thank you hamsade ghadimi. I hope to see other famous ruins as well. And you're right about the renovations. I think they were done around 1910 when they were not very concerned about the historical integrity of the structures. They that's not the case these days, so I heard. And thanks for the correction of the price of the ticket: its about $4 not $45 :o)

thanks

jahanshah, thanks for sharing the informative pictography of mayan ruins in mexico.  i've been to couple of ruins in mexico (chichen itza, tuluum) but none were as big as this.  although; i don't think any mayan ruin can rival the hedonistic nature of tuluum.  it's the only mayan ruin i know that is located by open waters. you can never be bothered by the heat in tuluum as you can go swimming in the beautiful caribbean anytime you get hot. also, i found tikal in guatemala to be bigger in terms of area and possibly pyramid heights: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal  i have to dig up my old pics of tikal and post them here.

one unfortunate thing that i noticed in these pictures which reminded me of visiting iran's historic sites is the way that some of these sites have been "renovated."  you can see concrete patches all over the structures clearly (something you don't see in tikal).  when i was in arge-e karim khane zand in shiraz, i saw couple of construction workers stripping beautiful kashikari haphazardly in a room in the castle.  i was horrified and asked them what they're doing and they said: "darim no-sazi mikonim!"  i guess in countries with much pressing problems, historical preservation takes a back seat.

cheers

p.s. in pic #4, i believe you meant 51 pesos = 4 dollars and not 45; if not, i have some pesos to sell you for real cheap.