The Pyramids of Teotihuacan

One quick addition to the bus post- I forgot to include the bus driver who pulled over the bus not to pick someone up but to get up out of his seat and spit out the door. Again, no one even batted an eye.

Anyways... haha... today Margaret (one of the women I'm staying with) took me to the pyramids. I really didn't know what to expect except... that they were pyramids. They are the tallest step pyramids in the world. The people disappeared and they have no idea what happened to them. They were thought to be mountains because they were covered with grass and everything until a little ways back when they discovered what they actually are. I climbed both of them. One of them is to the sun and the smaller one is to the moon. On cloudy days they would give people opiates and drag them on the Avenue of the Dead passing the sun temple and sacrifice the people in front of the moon temple. It was apparently a struggle between the moon and the sun to see who was brightest. So there is your history lesson for the day. Here are some pictures.

These are all the larger pyramid... the one to the sun.

And that is a lot of steps... that I climbed I might add. At almost 8000 ft. Let's just say I felt like I had never ever climbed steps before in my life lol. And they are big ones... and narrow :)


I'm on top of the sun but you can see the moon behind me.

And this is the moon.

and the moon again. You can see where they used to make the sacrifices.

And this path is the Avenue of the Dead.

And a look at the sun from the top of the moon.