The Yucatan Day 2
Anticipating a slightly delayed opening time, we arrived at the gates of Uxmal at 8:10. The early visit was a good idea, as during the hour we spent there, we saw fewer than a dozen people (and half of them were employees of the site). Much of what can be seen at Uxmal today was built throughout the ninth and tenth centuries, during the Late Classic Maya period, but the city was allegedly founded over three hundred years earlier. Legend has it that the main pyramid (or the “Adivino”) was built by the mythical Dwarf King overnight.