Pyramids Of Teotihuacan In Mexico - Avenue Of The Dead / Don’t Drink The Water & Real World Showcase
The Pyramids In Mexico
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of us Thursday, May 8th.
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I'm in Mexico City drinking a Piping Hot
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Caffeinated beverage with a $200 peso
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cap that I just purchased from a street
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vendor. About $10. Also wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt as well. Now, I know
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you're not supposed to drink tap water
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in Mexico. It's pretty well known for
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that. But I've also heard that if you go
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to an established restaurant and or
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coffee place, they should have purified
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water. But if I start feeling a little
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ill, I'll know what the culprit is.
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Going to be going to some pyramids
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today. Meeting up with the group here in
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about 30 minutes. Taking a van and/or
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shuttle or bus. A little bit of a
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commute on the outskirts of Mexico City
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and check out a little history. I'm
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inviting you to join me and let's see
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wherever else the the rest of the day
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leads before and after that. Shall you?
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I was supposed to meet the group right
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over there on the corner of that road. A
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lot of people ride motorcycles, scooters
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through town. I ended up buying this hat
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just because the sun is permeating here.
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Kind of reminds me of when I was in
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Ecuador. 7,000 and change feet
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elevation, which is 2,000 ft higher than
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the mile high city of Denver,
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Colorado. And the sun is permeating
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here, let me tell you. So, I was like,
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you know what? I should probably get
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some sort of hat. And if this doesn't
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work, I might buy a bigger one as time
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goes on. But for today, this is the one
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I'm sporting. And who knows, I might
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wear it the whole duration of my stay. 5
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minutes the bus should
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arrive. 84°
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of this complex. The first ruins of the
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day built in 1438 up to 1521, the year
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of independence. No, no, wait a minute.
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The year of the conquest of Mexico from
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Spain.
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in the surroundings of the city that
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belongs to the state of New York.
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All right, it's now 2:30. The van showed
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up about 1:15. About 15 minutes late.
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Traffic was really, really bad. So,
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that's understandable. Took about an
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hour to get to the front entrance and
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another 15minute drive up a very, very,
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very bumpy rocky road, making it 2:30.
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Now, plenty of hats here you could buy,
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too. They had an umbrella. I would
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definitely buy that as well, just to had
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some have some added sun
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protection. There's not a lot of going
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to be a lot of shade, I think.
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A lot of shops but no umbrellas.
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Just row after row of stores, little
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little stores right here next to the
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ruins.
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fascinate me when I go to these places
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where
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these very old relics of the past that
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the people that live here back in the
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day had no idea that tourists would show
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up or that people would be selling
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little knickknacks and
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souvenirs off to the side.
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This has the pyramid which on this
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temple rest Decorated with a
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multicolored mural on three sides.
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that is how they used to build the
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parties for the temple in the top of
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worship. Although his name is completely
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written,
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So, one of these is what Epcot and World
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Showcase base the Mexico pavilion on.
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It's out here somewhere. I'm sure when I
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see it, I'll catch my eye.
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Very intricral archaic drainage system
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right here.
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Use these sunglasses on till you go
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inside.
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stone columns profusely carve
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representations of quatalls and
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owls. It's an
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owl. That must be a quitsaw. Whatever
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that is.
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Okay, this is
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fascinating. They used to use this as
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like they filled us with water and they
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uses a reflecting pond to the mirror to
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look up to the heavens to the sky and
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then they would drain the water through
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that
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closer. I just asked the guide. They
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said
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the the one that's at World Showcase,
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the one that they used as the one they
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recreated at World Showcase is the last
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one we're going to look at. And it's not
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the ones I'm looking at right here. It's
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a bigger one or a one in a different
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spot. But look at the size of this
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thing. That is amazing. It's a pyramid
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right there. Huge. That's probably the
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biggest ruin I've probably seen. I saw
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some in Ecuador or know I saw some in
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Bise that were amazing but they weren't
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tall and you can see Venus up there. So
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probably they were trying to represent
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Venus but Venus related with the
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fertility or the moon the cycle of the
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moon 28 day cycle of pregnancy and blah
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blah. Okay. So when the archist made uh
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like a research around here, they found
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baby skeletons buried on the corners of
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the structure, that's when they said
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that this was like the offering to the
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fertility. See, and then they found that
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stone in the middle in the middle of the
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plaza related with the goddesses of the
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water known as
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Charu. So they said it was the
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fertility. So they were trying mainly to
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represent the fertility in this plasma.
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Okay. with that temple. That one is
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smaller than the sun. This one is 49 m
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high, 120 steps to the top and 100 m by
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side. Okay? So, it's smaller, but it's
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completely solid. There's no space
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inside. Okay? That's what I was telling
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you since the beginning. All these
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structures in we call them in a way
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pyramids. The main usage of these
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structures were bases for
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temples. This was not not like a like a
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tombs or burials like in Egypt.
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That's the main difference between Egypt
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and Maine. But a lot of people says that
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Tiwakan and Egypt are like a sister
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sister cities or brother cities. Okay.
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Are in the same position with the same
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distribution of the buildings but in the
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other side of the world. So how they
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build exactly the same? Did they happen
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the same time as well? No, Egypt is
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older even older than this one. This is
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amazing.
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There's all these vendors out here
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selling different things. One of the
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items they have are little noise makers
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that make animal sounds. This is what
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that growling noises keep that keep
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permeating the soundsscape are
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the system that they designed system
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they are fully downhill when the ring is
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from north to south flows down the river
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and the river is located road right here
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originally the architects first
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discovered it was called the avenue of
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death cuz they assumed that these were
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all tomb man I don't even know what that
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sound is they assumed that these were
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graves or tombs and then years later
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come to find out that none of these are
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hollow except for the first couple spots
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we walk through all these are completely
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solid
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And it was not what they originally
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thought they
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were. Here you go. Avenue of the Dead
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mistakenly thought that the ruins were
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burial
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mounts. Definitely see how you would
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think that's what this is, though.
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largest mural found here on property.
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It's called the Puma mural, but it's not
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a puma or a jaguar. Oh, no. It's a puma,
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not a jaguar, even
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though even though people assumed or
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thought it was a
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jaguar. There it is. Look at that.
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That's cool. still there. They've
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covered it with this newer
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one Jaguar scary. Thank you. Yes.
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Gracias. the guide a little bit more and
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he was saying that the houses so the
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only people that could live inside the
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city which would be this portion the
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avenue of the dead and then you'd walk
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all the way down there was the high
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priest and the rich people would live in
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the city that first spot that I showed
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and then these they re realized they
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were not tombs but they would use these
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for religious ceremonies where they
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would climb up the stairs and they would
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perform the ceremony on the top that's
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what all these stairs are for they would
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not walk up these to go over to their
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homes that were on either
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side. But look at this thing. Look at
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that huge one right there. Look at that
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thing. Massive.
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This one is one million cubic meters of
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completely. There's no They found a
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tunnel
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underneath where they used to make
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offerings to mainly to the to the
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nation.
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with human bones, human skulls,
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ceramics, potter kind of things. But
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there's nothing else in there. Wow.
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Okay. And according to archaeologist,
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these people were trying to represent
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like a volcan. This is the largest
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pyramid here in this particular little
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city, temple of the
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sun. And you can climb these
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stairs. Look at this.
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He's back home.
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Sun was behind the clouds for a bit, but
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now the sun's back out.
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Oh, noise makers. Yeah, we're on the
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eagle. Eagle and Jaguar. Thank you. I
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give you a good price. Oh, thank you.
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Only 25.
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Okay. Thank you. Gracias.
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It's pretty inexpensive. 25 pesos is
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like really nothing. We're going to go
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back to the van. Then we're going to go
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over to the temple area. So, those are
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like the pyramids. Now, we're going to
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head over to the temples. I'm glad
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there's it's the sun's back out again,
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but there has been a little cloud cover.
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So, you do get a little you do get a
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little
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mellow sha uh cloud cover from time to
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time, blocking the sun for brief
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moments. I'm going to hear those jaguar
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sounds in my
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sleep. Okay, let's go to see this part.
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This is the last part of the tour.
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There it
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is. That's it. Oh my gosh. You can climb
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up it.
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So
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evidently that used to be an active
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volcano. Now it's just a
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mountain. And obviously the top portion
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of the temple is
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gone. That's it. It's also unusual.
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That's the only one they'll let you
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climb is that one. Can't climb it at
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Epcot,
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though. Climb it here.
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There's no Grand Fiesta Tour boat ride
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in this thing, though.
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Obviously, this is way older. It's not
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all intact like it once
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was. But it is
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fascinating. This is what they utilized,
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this spot of all of
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Mexico to be the landmark at World
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Showcase.
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Right. A second. There's a back portion.
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Oh, it's back around here. Holy
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crap. Holy crap. The things are still up
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there. Okay, this is a newer one. There
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it is. Holy. That's awesome. Oh my gosh.
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Look at this.
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100% that's it.
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And obviously
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there it is right there. Even has the
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little uh little carvings, the faces
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just like
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that. Man, that's really neat. Can't get
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any closer than this. But they built a
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newer one like this. That's why you can
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climb it. So, you cannot climb that one
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right there. It is
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prohibited. In fact, there's a sign
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right there that says prohibited. I took
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a photo. You kind of zoom in a little
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bit. You see some of the faces in there
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and the staircases over on the other
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side of that face. Man, that's
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awesome. Kind of wish this other newer
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one where they put that that one in
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front of it. But I guess this one wasn't
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used
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anymore cuz that's the front right
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there. You can even see those
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stairs. I was way up. I thought this was
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the front of it. I thought it was just
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changed over the years. But since
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they're letting people climb up this,
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I'm going to see if I can go up where
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the other guy is and actually get the
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front
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view. Maybe. Maybe not.
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I could probably get the top and look
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down. Kind of get that same angle. So,
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the reason they built this one is the
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cycle of life is 52 years. Kind of how
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there are 52 weeks in a year now for a
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year and then the the year cycle ends.
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Well, the cycle of life during this time
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frame was 52
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years. So, they built this 52 years
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according to the guide after the other
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one on the other side was built. He's
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giving me three minutes up
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here. There it
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Maybe not. Go down here a little closer.
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Look at this. Holy crap. What's
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happening? What the
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Yes.
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Wow. That's it. Cycle of life covered up
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by this new one. New
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Orin. Amazing.
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Amazing. That is That is really really
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cool. That is really cool. So, it's a
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storm rolling in, I guess. So, got to
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get out here. Get back to the
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van, man. That was neat. Look at that.
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Right. Not getting down. You got to
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tread lightly cuz this thing is
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steep. Very
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steep. That guy's got the right idea.
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Shuffling down in the
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Heiny. There it is. Boy, I was deceived.
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They thought this was it and they just
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kind of removed some things, but nope.
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It's the one behind
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it. And that's it. The guards kicking us
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out. We're the last guests in
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here. All right. Got dropped back off
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back in the Oh, look. There's a rainbow.
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Look at that.
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Beautiful rainbow up