• Category Archives Guatemala
  • Tikal

    The pyramids at Tikal are very tall

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    The other buildings are too

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    They stick out of the jungle.

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    Most of the buildings have boring names like “Temple V”

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    Because they don’t really know what the buildings were

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    Of course they never really know what the buildings were when they find them

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    But usually the archeologists make up a name that turns out to be wrong.

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    I don’t understand why you need a degree in archeology to give temples the wrong name.

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    That seems easy to do.

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    This temple’s name is Chester

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    There was some wood left in some of the buildings

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    But most of it has rotted away

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    This is a stone bed

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    This is Kerri and Matt and Chester

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  • More Tikal

    This is a tall pyramid

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    There were a lot of them.

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    Kerri is up high

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    Matt is down low.

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    We couldn’t climb all of the pyramids

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    That would have been a lot of stairs

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    Most of the ones you can climb have modern wooden stairs at the back to protect the temple

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    And a wooden platform at the top with railings so you can’t fall off

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    But that side doesn’t make good pictures.

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