The archeological sites of the 5 states of the Maya area are waiting to be visited by travelers with 2012 Maya World Passport which is available online as an option for these coming vacations.
July 10, 2012, MEXICO CITY, Mexico.
It is in big cities that the high degree of development of the Mayan civilization settled and now converted into archeological sites; some of which are recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage and awaits a swarm of travelers this 2012. Maya World Passport was created by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in order to encourage visitors to visit these iconic Mexican sites.
There are ten pre-hispanic sites which are listed in this passport and they are: Izapa and Palenque in Chiapas, Edzna and Calakmul in Campeche, Coba and Tulum in Quintana Roo as well as Comacalco, Pomona, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Yucatan which also make up the vital choice for this vacation as they focus on the third part of cultural tourism.
Vacationers who head off to these kinds of places and collect the two stamps of each state (to be obtained at the box office of every archeological site), INAH will award them a certificate of recognition online, and when meeting the ten seals of the five states an AHAU certificate will be given, the highest title Maya rulers had a thousand years in the past, during the Classic period in 300-1000 AD.
Wondering where to get the passport?
You can visit the site to download the passport. The passport is obtainable at the ADO bus terminal in Mexico City, Puebla, Veracruz, Xalapa and Cancun, for those passengers going to destinations in the Maya area. One can receive the certificate as well as recognition by sending a photograph or a scanned copy of the passport to pasaportemaya@inah.gob.mx.
Additionally, visitors to the Mayan route have some other travel choices at the same time, for example the Comalcalco Site Museum in Tabasco, just recently renovated, or cities declared World Heritage by UNESCO, such as the fortified town of Campeche, or the Palizada Magic Towns (Campeche), Bacalar (Quintana Roo), Izamal (Yucatan), San Cristobal de las Casas (Chiapas) or Tapijulapa (Tabasco).
The mentioned passport is a part of the 2012 Mayan World Program, including numerous activities marketed by the federal government through the Ministry of Tourism, the state governments of Campeche, Yucatan, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, the Conaculta as well as INAH, in order to encourage a trip to the region.
The entire program is found on www.mundomayacultura2012.mx, which includes a series of activities for this year, the coming opening of archeological sites along with museums and national and international exhibitions, film festivals and symposia, as an opportunity to get closer to this age-old culture way of thinking, which set in their long count calendar the year 2012 as the start of a new age.
One of several highlights is the upcoming opening of the Archeological Museum of Cancun and the Mayan Ruins of San Miguelito, in Quintana Roo, likewise engaged on the renovation of the former Convent of Santo Domingo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, to house the Maya Textile Clothing Center, and updating the Lagartero prehispanic site, within the same state.
At the archeological site of Calakmul, Campeche, and a Chichen Itza Interpretation Room, a Regional Visitors Center will be open whereby a comprehensive restoration project of the monuments of the area regarded as the Great Leveling, are conducted.
Moreover, renovation work is taking place under INAH's supervision at Campeche, as the Museum of Mayan architecture, Baluarte de la Soledad along with the Hecelchakan Maya Museum of Archeology; there's also work taking place, the creation of Intercultural Reading Rooms in Campeche and Chiapas in order to strongly encourage reading.
The installing of wastewater treatment plants in archeological sites of Palenque, Chichen Itza, Tulum, Tankah, Dzibilchaltun, Uxmal and Coba, to avoid affecting the environment. Other actions in infrastructure are other infrastructures actions undertaken. With regards to spreading the news, a number of exhibitions associated with the Maya culture are displayed in lots of countries; included in this Maya: society and time, displayed at the Explore Park Exhibition Center, in the city of Medellin, Colombia, later to be displayed at the National Museum of Seoul, Korea, from the month of September to October.
Likewise, the exhibit The Maya, Secrets of the Ancient World at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec, Canada, and also the Children of the Feathered Serpent, which exhibited initially at the Los Angeles County in California, Art Museum and today in the Dallas, Texas, Museum of Art, in the USA.
The exhibition The Maya: time and power, is organized in the Guanajuato Regional Museum "Albhondiga de Granaditas" as part of the International Cervantes Festival.
Among the list of academic activities to be performed is the International Colloquium the Count of Time: calendars of the world at the National Museum of Anthropology, during this October, and an event entitled End of the Long Count, to be presented on December 21 in the Archeological Area of Uxmal, Yucatan.
Likewise, on Channel 22, in November the documentary The Jaguar will be shown, dealing with the mythology, iconography and also history of this iconic southeastern Mexican feline; an existing film series filmed in the Maya site, is going to be screened in October at the International Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato.
The cultural program will be complemented by Yucatecan trova concerts, a musical evening with Maya music at the National Auditorium, the show The Birth of the Fifth World, The New Baktun, by the Yucatan Folkloric Ballet, in the city of Merida "Armando Manzanero" Theatre, on November 16th and 17th.
In October, in the city of Morelia, several other events will be the World Cultural Tourism Fair, dedicated to the Mayan world, and astronomical observations in the archeological sites of the five states of the Maya area are scheduled for November.
July 10, 2012, MEXICO CITY, Mexico.
It is in big cities that the high degree of development of the Mayan civilization settled and now converted into archeological sites; some of which are recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage and awaits a swarm of travelers this 2012. Maya World Passport was created by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in order to encourage visitors to visit these iconic Mexican sites.
There are ten pre-hispanic sites which are listed in this passport and they are: Izapa and Palenque in Chiapas, Edzna and Calakmul in Campeche, Coba and Tulum in Quintana Roo as well as Comacalco, Pomona, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Yucatan which also make up the vital choice for this vacation as they focus on the third part of cultural tourism.
Vacationers who head off to these kinds of places and collect the two stamps of each state (to be obtained at the box office of every archeological site), INAH will award them a certificate of recognition online, and when meeting the ten seals of the five states an AHAU certificate will be given, the highest title Maya rulers had a thousand years in the past, during the Classic period in 300-1000 AD.
Wondering where to get the passport?
You can visit the site to download the passport. The passport is obtainable at the ADO bus terminal in Mexico City, Puebla, Veracruz, Xalapa and Cancun, for those passengers going to destinations in the Maya area. One can receive the certificate as well as recognition by sending a photograph or a scanned copy of the passport to pasaportemaya@inah.gob.mx.
Additionally, visitors to the Mayan route have some other travel choices at the same time, for example the Comalcalco Site Museum in Tabasco, just recently renovated, or cities declared World Heritage by UNESCO, such as the fortified town of Campeche, or the Palizada Magic Towns (Campeche), Bacalar (Quintana Roo), Izamal (Yucatan), San Cristobal de las Casas (Chiapas) or Tapijulapa (Tabasco).
The mentioned passport is a part of the 2012 Mayan World Program, including numerous activities marketed by the federal government through the Ministry of Tourism, the state governments of Campeche, Yucatan, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, the Conaculta as well as INAH, in order to encourage a trip to the region.
The entire program is found on www.mundomayacultura2012.mx, which includes a series of activities for this year, the coming opening of archeological sites along with museums and national and international exhibitions, film festivals and symposia, as an opportunity to get closer to this age-old culture way of thinking, which set in their long count calendar the year 2012 as the start of a new age.
One of several highlights is the upcoming opening of the Archeological Museum of Cancun and the Mayan Ruins of San Miguelito, in Quintana Roo, likewise engaged on the renovation of the former Convent of Santo Domingo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, to house the Maya Textile Clothing Center, and updating the Lagartero prehispanic site, within the same state.
At the archeological site of Calakmul, Campeche, and a Chichen Itza Interpretation Room, a Regional Visitors Center will be open whereby a comprehensive restoration project of the monuments of the area regarded as the Great Leveling, are conducted.
Moreover, renovation work is taking place under INAH's supervision at Campeche, as the Museum of Mayan architecture, Baluarte de la Soledad along with the Hecelchakan Maya Museum of Archeology; there's also work taking place, the creation of Intercultural Reading Rooms in Campeche and Chiapas in order to strongly encourage reading.
The installing of wastewater treatment plants in archeological sites of Palenque, Chichen Itza, Tulum, Tankah, Dzibilchaltun, Uxmal and Coba, to avoid affecting the environment. Other actions in infrastructure are other infrastructures actions undertaken. With regards to spreading the news, a number of exhibitions associated with the Maya culture are displayed in lots of countries; included in this Maya: society and time, displayed at the Explore Park Exhibition Center, in the city of Medellin, Colombia, later to be displayed at the National Museum of Seoul, Korea, from the month of September to October.
Likewise, the exhibit The Maya, Secrets of the Ancient World at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec, Canada, and also the Children of the Feathered Serpent, which exhibited initially at the Los Angeles County in California, Art Museum and today in the Dallas, Texas, Museum of Art, in the USA.
The exhibition The Maya: time and power, is organized in the Guanajuato Regional Museum "Albhondiga de Granaditas" as part of the International Cervantes Festival.
Among the list of academic activities to be performed is the International Colloquium the Count of Time: calendars of the world at the National Museum of Anthropology, during this October, and an event entitled End of the Long Count, to be presented on December 21 in the Archeological Area of Uxmal, Yucatan.
Likewise, on Channel 22, in November the documentary The Jaguar will be shown, dealing with the mythology, iconography and also history of this iconic southeastern Mexican feline; an existing film series filmed in the Maya site, is going to be screened in October at the International Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato.
The cultural program will be complemented by Yucatecan trova concerts, a musical evening with Maya music at the National Auditorium, the show The Birth of the Fifth World, The New Baktun, by the Yucatan Folkloric Ballet, in the city of Merida "Armando Manzanero" Theatre, on November 16th and 17th.
In October, in the city of Morelia, several other events will be the World Cultural Tourism Fair, dedicated to the Mayan world, and astronomical observations in the archeological sites of the five states of the Maya area are scheduled for November.
