Challenging sights in Yucatán Peninsula
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El Castillo
The most famous and best restored of the region's Mayan sites, Chichén Itzá (Mouth of the Well of the Itzáes) is breathtaking. Other than a few minor passageways, El Castillo is now the only structure you can climb or enter. At the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the morning and afternoon sun produce the illusion of a serpent along the side of the staircase.
The site is mobbed on these dates, however, making it difficult to see, and after the spectacle, parts of the site are sometimes closed to the public. The illusion is almost as good in the week preceding and following each equinox (and draws much smaller crowds), and is re-created nightly in the light-and-sound show…
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