I’ve been lucky enough to see some great places. The Meso-American sites are spectacular. I’ve visited Teotihuacán (nobody knows who built it) near Mexico city and climbed the Pyramid of the Moon because I was too wussy to climb the Pyramid of the Sun. I’d love to see Machu Pichu in Peru since that seems to be one of the great engineering feats of the world.
One of my daughters was just talking about Machu Picchu, but I don’t know if I could handle the altitude. I told her we’d go to Rome someday ... but that’s what my mother told me, and we didn’t make it. (Dad was sick, and I had a baby.)
A couple of my church choir members are from Ecuador. Life in the Andes is totally different from what we’re used to, even if the towns look like European civilization. The altitude really makes a difference.