I really am fargin old. A LOONG time ago, my dainty fireball and Himself went there. We din' go to Chichen Itza, but some other site.
At that time, there were no mowed lawns or guides... you just got offa the bus
***, and could see the fargin thing about a half-mile away. Touristy stalls all around the bus stop in the middle of jungle nowhere. Jarring.
There was a yard-wide beaten dirt path wandering through the jungle leading to it. We noticed many clearly man-made overgrown mounds... also clearly untouched on either side of the twisty path. A mystery to me today.
After about a half-mile in, we came to the pyramid. Unlike Chichen Itza, it was not four-sided, but three-slope sided and the back slope a vertical to the top. I truly risked my alabaster arse in order to get to the very top: The only way was to rock-climb the sheer rear wall to get to the very top. Scary fun.
We were alone, and the place was dead silent.
We din’ know about the bird noise trick (maybe nobody did at that time!) but we sure as heck knew about the camera-click weird-o phenomenon: I had climbed alla way up to the top and Witchie-poo tooken my picture 200’ away and
I could hear it plainly. With my wooden ears. <-- Way back before I got hearing aids.
***There WAS a gidunk there at the bus stop... making a fortune in soft drinks from the returning folks. Many turned back before getting there. On the trail back, I cracked some kind of corny joke, and Herself slapped me on the back. It splashed her. That is how much you sweat in triple canopy jungle. 13 canteens a day was not excessive.
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LATE PS: I just discovered a new censored word. Really surprising:
WEIRD-O <-- but without the "-O". Ain't that the bomb? What weirdo thought of that?
