Cholul

Cholul is a village just a kilometer or so outside the beltline highway that surrounds Merida. We thought it a charming place and the yellow church, although not open, was photogenic. In the picture below, Kent is with our neighbor, a young schoolteacher here in Merida. She was very helpful in navigating us out of Merida on our first time taking out the car since we arrived.

It was Sunday and many in the village were gathered in the shade of the trees on the square in front of the church.

One of the walls which surround the houses of the wealthy who live here.

Another wall around a rich man's estate. From a peek through the gate, the inside grounds looked exceptionally lovely and well cared for, but the outside was ignored--except by iguana.

Not all the people in Cholul were wealthy. This is one of the traditional Mayan houses, oval in shape. Some are not stone, but a kind of daub and wattle and have thatched roofs.