First time I heard about Calakmul was researching mayan pyramids at the web … Calakmul appears having the biggest and tallest one already discovered … Calakmul has the tallest pyramidal structure left by mayan civilization in all america … So I immediately knew I would like to go there, personally … The archaelogical site is […]
Mexico
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Latitude / Longitude 20.490504, -87.732283 Coba has one of the few pyramids in Mexico you can really climb. Most of them are forbidden, which is compreensive and annoying at same time. Coba is near Cancun, so, the site can be suddenly crowded. I arrived pretty late and 15 minutes later I had the pyramid for myself […]
Latitude / Longitude 17.043691, -96.767401 Monte Alban is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, located only approximately 9 km from the capital, Oaxaca city. Besides being one of the earliest cities of Mesoamerica, Monte Alban was the pre-eminent Zapotec sociopolitical and economic center for […]