[blam]

There's a smaller pyramid at Coba that still hasn't been cleared out of the jungle like this one.

Anyway, I was up on that thing one morning just after sun up and I was looking down as if I was the king and gave out a big yell...just as I did a French accented guy came around the corner (startled me) and said with disgust in his voice, "You must be an American." I said what makes you think that and he said "You people are only into power." Then he left, lol.

(I did think about kicking his wimpy butt, but that would make him correct, eh?)

[Talisker]

lol, well said.

[wbill]

I did think about kicking his wimpy butt

You should have just given him a push. Not too much room at the ledge on the top, if memory serves.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lakeshark]

We were there as a family fairly early the day we went, before it got crowded. The kids were running up and down those steep steps and I went into that room at the top where I surprised a woman doing a meditative version of what looked like Tai Chi (oriental martial art/dance/meditation technique).

She looked at me with an embarrassed grin and decided it was safe to tell me how much more advanced the civilization was that built this pyramid. She went on and on about how inferior our culture was to theirs, so, being a bit mischievous, I pointed to where they did their sacrifices and said "and that's the side they threw the bodies off after cutting the hearts out, it's said they often sacrificed thousands in a day."

The look on her face....

Priceless.

[1010RD]

My wife and I visited Copan and it must have been their off season. No one was there and we had the “city” to ourselves. It was awesome and much less developed than the Mexican sites.