Pyramids of Ancient Latin America

Pyramids of Ancient Latin America – Whether you have historian tendencies, or you are just the average traveller, tourist, or intrepid explorer, you will each experience these ancient ruins in a different way.

Introduction

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Known as “pyramids”, and sometimes as “temples”, or “temples atop pyramids”, or just “structures”, Latin America is strewn with many impressive ruins with some city foundations dating as far back as the 4th century B.C. Most were built by the Aztecs (such as Mexico’s Teotihuacan), the Incas (such as Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu in Peru), the Maya people (such as Palenque, Tikal, and Copán), or built by the mother of them all, the Olmecs.

Some visitors will literally walk around with a flashlight and magnifying glass to decipher the ancient reliefs and inscriptions such as the name glyphs on tablets inside the Temple of the Foliated Cross, at Mexico’s Palenque.

Those of us who didn’t care to bring along our magnifying glass and reference diagrams, will wander around the ruins and appreciate them, each in a different way. Whatever your reason for visiting, or the way in which you appreciate these ruins, one thing you should not forget to do is to get to a peaceful spot with a good view over one of the most prominent sections of the ruins.

This should preferably be with no strangers around you. Be still. Try to imagine back to when the city in front of you was at its height of productivity, at its apogee, when tens or hundreds of thousands of Aztec, Inca or Maya people were occupied with their daily chores. What an ant nest it would have been.

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Machu Picchu – Peru

Teotihuacan – Mexico

Palenque – Mexico

Tikal – Guatemala

Copan – Honduras

Ollantaytambo – Peru

This article appears in the July 2015 issue of Globerovers Magazine.

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