I always wanted to do that!
It’s annoying the way Mexico shut down climbing the pyramids when covid hit. It still hasn’t let it resume. Now they are drifting into that whole “sacred” thing.
Another good thing, probably gone forever. And a woman walking up stone stairs and dancing on hundreds of tons of stone block didn’t “damage it”... really? Did you have an engineering team go check it?
Idiocracy... I am with the woman on this.
I walked up it, decades ago.
It’s only recently been not allowed because someone fell.
And, the woman is Mexican, not a foreign tourist.
Slutty Spaniard tourist posed for ‘immodest’ photos on the Muslim controlled Temple Mount in Jerusalem and some pious Christian on FR claimed she was just looking for Jesus. I’m sure that must be the case here…
God, how I long for the days when I could have done such an obnoxious disrespectful thing.
Tourists were allowed to climb this pyramid at one time. I climbed it and still have the photos to prove it.
But, IIRC, there was nothing stopping you from falling off. I knew a group who visited another Mexican pyramid, and a boy fell off and died while they were there. :-(
If the rules have changed, she should’ve obeyed them. No reason to physically assault her, though.
Rented a jeep in Cancun and drove there. Climbing it was allowed in the 1980s.
Did so with my girlfriend.
Also climbed alone to the top of a structure next to it, and some vulture swooped around in the purpose to make me lose my footing.
Dickered with a vendor over the price of a Mexican blanket, and got called a
“che pesqueta.” (cheapskate)
We all climbed it in the old days.
New York lady at the top
heard me huffin and puffin and says “I call it the Mayan
aerobic stepper”.
Most women wisely came down one step at a time sitting down.
I heard they closed it because someone tagged the inside of the top.
I went to a site on a cruise tour from Costa Maya in Mexico but south near Belize maybe 6 years ago and it was great.
I think bigger than Chichen Itza and we climbed everything.
A Mexican? WTH is a Mexican doing in Mexico?
Climbed it back in 1981. Tough set of steps - high rise-to-run ratio
Was she wearing a “Kuck Fukulkan” tshirt? I’d have been...
They look like stairs to me.
No pictures of any “KEEP OF THE PYRAMIDS” sign anyplace?
Maybe park authorities can cut her heart out as a appeasing sacrifice to the Aztec gods?
Sounds as if there is lots of pagan people with a thin Christian veneer in Mexico.
Christian on the outside, pagan blood thirsty on the inside.
Nothing has changed since the days of the Emperor Maximilian when Empress Carlotta said Mexico was still a pagan country.
When I visited the same site about 30 years ago, climbing up was encouraged and celebrated.
People are becoming such sensitive pansies...
“Ascending the 82-ft pyramid at the Chichen Itza archaeological site – formerly one of the most important centres of the Mayan civilisation – has been prohibited since 2008.”
I climbed that, back in the 80’s. It was filthy and full of trash and graffiti. The whole ‘park’ was that way, too.
I’m glad to see someone taking measures to clean that place up.
The unearthing and restoration of that location continues and it's remarkable how they have been able to reclaim and reassemble it from the jungle growth that was taking over that area for the past thousand years or so.