Tajin Ruins

We went an hour by bus into the jungle to Panpantla where the Tajin Ruins are. Totally amazing!!
This is a World Heritage site where there is an entire Mayan ancient city of 128 structures. There is a rock wall around the entire city area and the rich and poor people lived on opposites sides outside it. All these huge rock slab monuments are for worship, as they are altars for the priests. They are solid rock. The Ball C0urt is sited north to south as it typically is. The players used shoulders, elbows, hips and knees to keep the ball in the air continuously and toss it through a rock circle high on the wall. The WINNERS were then sacrificed as this was a religious ceremony and their reward was that they were sent to a bettor place.
We watched a performance by the Papantla Flyers. Six men in native costume enter and do a chanting dance around a pole which five of them then climb. More flute playing and then four flip over backwards while the fifth turns the top of the very high pole so they are spinning and lowering themselves to the ground, upside down, taking about 10 minutes. I had to stand back about 70 feet because I don't look up well and shut my eyes as they spun. Interesting though.