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You can't climb the outside or inside of the pyramid at Chichen Itza. It's been closed to climbing since January 2006, which was a few months before Bush, Fox and Harper made their visit. INAH, the agency in charge of protecting the ruins, had been talking about closing the pyramid to climbing for several years, and after a San Diego-area woman fell to her death, they made good their promise. They also closed to tourists to the interior pyramid, which is reached by a stairway under the north-facing side.

Of all the sites, Chichen Itza is the one most closed off. If touching the ruins is important, skip it. There are barriers around most of them. https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g150812-i23-k4705866-Can_you_still_climb_the_steps_at_Chichen_Itza-Playa_del_Carmen_Yucatan_Peninsula.html

Why do women mess things up for the rest of us?

I was there in '03 and made the climb. It is quite dangerous; on the return trip. The 'steps' are QUITE tall and I came down by facing them and inching down each one, always keeping three of my hands or feet on them!

I climbed down inside Meteor Crater, in the late '60s. Returning years later, and finding the trail now closed, was told that a woman had tried to go down the trail and broke her ankle.

The owners decided to shut down the trail.

BTW; the woman was wearing high heels.

Sorry to hear they have xlosed so much of the Chichen Itza site. I got some great pixs from the top of the Pyramid back in the day.

Byt the eeriest part of the exploration was the descent into the interior of a pyrmid to a chamber with a statute of the Jaguar god. The passage way was very steeop and very small in diameter. Becaouse there was a long line of tourists going both ways, up and down, the oxygen was used up and it was hard to breathe. Great side trip from Cancun.