Posted on 11/22/2022 10:25:43 PM PST by Cronos
...The unnamed woman could be seen near the top of El Castillo – or Pyramid of Kukulcán – in the Mexican state of Yucatán dancing while an enraged group of people shouted abuse at her from down below.
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.
...The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a statement a few hours after the video was released on social media, noting that the monument had not been damaged.
Fines for climbing the temple can range from $2569 to $5138, depending on the damage caused to the structure.
Article 47 of the Federal law on Archaeological, Artistic and Historic Monuments states that a punishment of one to ten years in prison can be handed out if a person is found liable.
...The video gathered mixed responses on social media.
'Good, I'm glad this was the outcome cause people really are disrespectful,' one person said.
'Few things more embarrassing than entitled tourists,' said another.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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…
How do you say ‘Karen’ in Mayan ?
Be-yotch.
God, how I long for the days when I could have done such an obnoxious disrespectful thing.
Exhilarating!
Sections of the hotels we stayed at were indistinguishable from the surrounding ruins.
Glad we survived the exotic excursion.
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.
I’ve done that in 2002, when it was legal. There used to be a thick chain running down the middle of the stairs to help you descend. When you get to the top, the little enclosure there is much smaller than you’d imagine. All you see when you look around is jungle canopy stretching out to the horizon in every direction, with a few power line cuts visible. While at the top, a thunderstorm came up, which made me nervous holding the chain on the way down. Not far away is a taller unrestored pyramid in Coba which I also climbed.
Covid hit in 2008?
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)
“Che pesqueta”
Ja ja! I usually see them pat their elbow in a gesture that means “muy codo” — very cheap.
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?
“A Mexican? WTH is a Mexican doing in Mexico?”
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Usually leaving.
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...
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