English: In 1977 a friend and I stayed in the town of Telchaquillo Yucatan for a few days (at least 3, maybe more). It was the closest town to the ruins of Mayapan, walking distance.

We were rented a thatched hut ("na") where we hung our hammocks, rented from Fausto and Maria family.

The main street was a narrow paved road with one lane in each direction (most people tended to drive down the center except when one needed to pull to the side due to uncommon oncoming traffic) that went through the center of town. The main route has since been upgraded and moved to away from the old town and become Highway 184 (not yet so designated at the time).

There was a sizable unexcavated overgrown pyramid by the center of town. I got permission at the house of the owner of the land to take a look.

We bathed, such as it was, at the town cenote. A few nights later when we'd traveled elsewhere and had the luxury of a room with a shower, I proclaimed it "even better than a cenote".

Shown on map are: the road going from Tecoh (and beyond to Merida) in one direction and Mayapan ruins in the other, with the crossroads for Xkanchakan. The town plaza with the town Cenote. Rough outline of the large pre-Columbian pyramid.

Numbered on map:

• 1 - Government building
• 2 - Loud speaker - music was broadcast through it most of the day.
• 3 - Small store "Tienda Cine". I saw no evidence it had been a cinema ("Cine"), but perhaps at one time it was a very small one; otherwise I am at a loss to understand the name. In addition to the few goods sold, it had a foot-powered sewing machine used by local women.
• 4 - Homestead of "Fausto and Maria" a few thatch huts, a small stone/concrete building, a water well. They raised turkeys which ran around the area.
• 5 - House of the owner of the pyramid, where one could ask him permission to see it. The far side of the pyramid was on someone else's land, so he could not give permission to walk on the whole structure.
• 6 - Catholic church, at the time still unfinished/unroofed, perhaps unchanged since John Lloyd Stephens' description c. 1840. When I returned to Telchaquillo in 1981, the church had been roofed.
• 7 - Another store, "Tienda la Aguila Negra".
• 8 - Baptist church, constructed of corrugated metal sheets. Much of the town went there, I recall thinking it might have been reaction to the Catholic authorities never having authorized finishing the town church.