If you want Chichen Itzá to turn into a quiet library it’s not going to happen.
It’s one of the seven wonders of the modern world, you have the same experience if you visit the Vatican or the pissa tower.
There are many other sites in Yucatan that don’t receive as many visitors like ek’ balam and mayapan. Those are usually less crowded.
All of these had to be closed off because jackasses who tried to take away a piece of the monument, or because they didn’t tread well and fell down.
I’ve been there many times.
“My objection is to the authorities who have permitted this kind of presence at a heritage site”
Not allowing them would wreck the local economy. It will not happen.
No matter how much you try, Chichen Itzá will never be tranquil, it is visited by thousands of tourists every day, so it will always be crowded and full of voices.
Vendors are usually local indigenous people, and selling to tourists is their only source of income, it would be silly on their part not to take advantage of the situation.
Stucco is much more fragile and degrades rather quickly.
That’s why it usually hasn’t survived in these monuments and why it usually isn’t restored, it would cost way too much on maintenance.
They have it more much difficult right now, because Mexico’s president is Jewish, so they are basically calling her a race traitor
The worldnews subreddit is absolutely seething right now
He definitely has. A few years ago, San Salvador was known as the murder capital of the world, but nowadays it’s one of the safest places to live.