The 2012 Maya World Passport Will Take You To All Of The Maya Iconic Sites
by Linda Patterson
One can get the 2012 Maya World Passport online which serves as an option for these coming vacations to visit the archeological sites of the Maya area.
Mexico, 10th of July 2012.
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.
The ten pre-Hispanic sites listed in this passport are Edzna and Calakmul, in Campeche, Izapa and Palenque, in Chiapas, Tulum and Coba in Quintana Roo; Comalcalco and Pomona, Tabasco, and Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Yucatan; they are an important choice for this vacation period because they concentrate the third part of cultural tourism.
Travelers who go to these places and collect the two stamps of each state (to be acquired at the box office of every archeological site), INAH will award them a certificate of recognition over the Internet, and when meeting the ten seals of the five states an AHAU certificate will be issued, the highest title Maya rulers had a thousand years ago, during the Classic period (300-1000 AD).
Are you interested and wondering where to get such 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 component of the 2012 Mayan World Program, which includes a variety of activities promoted by the federal government through the Ministry of Tourism, the state governments of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, the Conaculta and also INAH, to successfully encourage a visit to the region.
The whole program is found on the site consisting of a series of activities for this year, the coming opening of archeological sites as well as museums and national and international exhibitions, symposia and film festivals, as an chance to be closer to this long lost culture way of thinking, which set in their long count calendar the year 2012 as the beginning of a new age.
Among the list of highlights is the coming opening of the Archeological Museum of Cancun and also the Mayan Ruins of San Miguelito, in Quintana Roo, likewise working 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, in the similar 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.
On top of that, renovation work is taking place at the Campeche museums under INAH supervision, as the Museum of Mayan architecture, Baluarte de la Soledad along with the Hecelchakan Maya Museum of Archeology; there's also work going on, the creation of Intercultural Reading Rooms in Campeche and Chiapas to really 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.
Additionally, 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 first at the Los Angeles County, California, Art Museum and then in the Dallas, Texas, Museum of Art, in America.
The exhibition The Maya: time and power, is prepared in the Guanajuato Regional Museum "Albhondiga de Granaditas" as a vital component 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.
At the same time, in November and on Channel 22 the documentary The Jaguar will be shown, addressing the mythology, iconography as well as history of this iconic southeastern Mexican feline; a current film series filmed in the Maya area, will be screened in October at the International Cervantes Festival in Guanajuato.
On November 16th and 17th, the 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.
This month of October, several other events will be held such as the World Cultural Tourism Fair which is dedicated to the Mayan world in the city of Morelia, and in November, astronomical observations in the archeological sites of the five states of the Maya area will be held.
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