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It's taken from the top of the main pyramid at the archaeological site of Coba, about forty miles northwest of Tulum.
Coba is one of the few places where you are allowed to climb the towers. Coba is harder to get to than many sites, but it is worth the drive.
Coba would have been twice the population of Paris when the Romans conquered the city. It is exciting to see it slowly being uncovered from the jungle, and you get a thrill you won't get from Chichen Itza which is completely exposed.
Coba is one of the few places where you are allowed to climb the towers. Coba is harder to get to than many sites, but it is worth the drive.
Coba would have been twice the population of Paris when the Romans conquered the city. It is exciting to see it slowly being uncovered from the jungle, and you get a thrill you won't get from Chichen Itza which is completely exposed.
Yes.
All my life I waited to get to Chichen to climb Kukulkan and by the time I got there it had been closed to climbing because a tourist fell from it to her death. It isn't as steep as the one at Coba and is much more broad but it's easy to get dizzy coming down.
It's probably a good thing to close them all to prevent erosion (she says now that she's had her turn. )
Something I don't understand about this one is the rise on it. It must be at least two and a half feet between steps and unless you have very strong knees and long legs it's nearly impossible to climb standing straight. It was intended to be climbed to make announcements to the people living in the area around it. The Mayan were short people. So why did they make it so difficult to climb?
You are correct that the site is enormous. There are men there who make their living driving people from area to area by bicycle. Ours was full of good information. He even stopped by a tree from which Mayan bees were exiting and explained to us that they are of a variety that doesn't sting.
Something I don't understand about this one is the rise on it. It must be at least two and a half feet between steps and unless you have very strong knees and long legs it's nearly impossible to climb standing straight. It was intended to be climbed to make announcements to the people living in the area around it. The Mayan were short people. So why did they make it so difficult to climb?
Most steps that you are used to in the USA have a 7" rise, but I don't think you are thinking this through.
You are not talking about lumber, but about rocks that weigh tons being assembled by people who did not have the wheel (or by extension pulleys). The pyramid is at Coba 42 meters high, while the pyramid is only 24 meters high in Chichen Itza (with a 6 meter temple on top). If you double the base area of a pyramid you need 4 times as much stone.
Even a long steps at a much more gradual angle in only one direction might easily double the amount of stone required. I don't think that they were much concerned about it being easy to climb.
On weekends barbacoa places sprout up like mushrooms after a spring rain in CDMX. They make it in Hidalgo and the trucks come to town on Friday. It is inherently not a good covid-19 situation since most have long shared face-to-face tables, but most have improvised some plastic barriers.
Una buena. Tarde familiar. De bistec o canitas acompañado. De una. Serbesita en CDMX... :OK:
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