Words synonymous with pyramids of Egypt which has some magnificent buildings that used to store the corpses of the ancient Egyptian king. But there are pyramids in Guatemala, Central America, is different. The building is a place to live and worship of some Indian tribe.
Trips to Central America quite exciting. The options that can be tried is Guatemala. In addition to tour the nation’s capital is Guatemala City, we can visit some interesting sights: the pyramids. The building is a place to live and worship of some Indian tribes.
If you happen to visit this place on Sunday, in a square large enough, the left and right sides of buildings towering ancient antiques, as well as a beautiful old church. The guide explains, on the day of the week there is a kind of “shock market”, where many people from the countryside to go to town to peddle his wares, in the form of agricultural produce or crafts, as well as they go to church.
Sidewalk stalls crowded stands. Food stalls packed with visitors. Craft vendors like typical Indian fabric lined. Quack medicine offers a lively speaker with a loud voice and interspersed with light-pocus. Shoeshine kids, offering his services to every visitor. And do not miss an amateur photographer offers his services to take pictures of visitors with the use of instant cameras directly so.
With professionals, the guide explains departure to the national park. There are several rules that may and may not, during his stay in the park. And the guide stopped backs to a tree. Start the passage about the Ceiba tree, which became “national tree” of his State of Guatemala. Lengthy story about the history of the tree, use and extremely useful for American Indians.
The temple or the pyramid complex of buildings are certainly not clustered, but makes a kind of layer. The first layer for custody, residence district chief headman, chieftain residence, a place for deliberation and a place to worship god. 3000 estimated there were more buildings, including some of the “temple” High towers above the magnificent jungle canopy. This complex of buildings have been built 1500 years ago and it housed more than 100,000 Mayan Indians.
There is a place very broad field, which became the center of this temple complex. At the western end of the temple towering high enough. At the bottom of the rocks where there is deliberation chieftain and his wife and his advisers. Opposite side there is the towering buildings places of worship, as well as the right side of the main building a few buildings for the people who waited for a meeting or ceremony.
Like the heritage buildings, temples, and pyramids as well with age. Digs conducted by the archaeologist, conducted since the early 19th century, when they began their exploration into Central America. Excavation of small hills overgrown with trees beneath which is the building temples and pyramids are made. Little by little, building by building renovations. Until now the results can be viewed and enjoyed by tourists either domestic or foreign.
Some of the main building, until recently still been renovated, because the pyramid-shaped temple is experiencing erosion by rain water. In contrast to the Borobudur Temple or Prambanan Temple in Java or other temples made of black stone and hard. Indian temples are made of limestone or rock is not as solid as a temple in Indonesia. But there are many buildings that have been destroyed and overgrown with towering trees that have not been handled.
To achieve the highest pucak buildings that have been able to climb, requires extra energy, because they have to climb stairs. There is also a ladder made from wood to foam up to the highest peak of the other buildings. Once on top, then the foam to see all the forests and a complex of other buildings in this forest.
Integrated management of archaeological relics are located in forest areas, making the Tikal National Park make the area and have been declared as Cultural Heritage and Natural Living for today’s modern mankind. For the region defined by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The area of this region Tikal National Park covers an area of 57 600 hectares of natural forests 49 500 ha of San Miguel and Maya Biosfeer Reserve covering one million hectares. All of this reserve occupies approximately 10% of total area of State of Guatemala.
Apart from cultural tours that are served at Tikal National Park, the area also presents special interest tours. Easy to find such a variety of animals, Howler monkey and spider monkey. Various types of colorful birds can be found easily along the road to the temples and pyramids. Like a bird parakeet or macaws, parakeets, taucan and various other bird species diperkirtakan there are about 333 species. Also some kind of lizard or iguana compatriots were also encountered, and made a tourist attraction of special interest, in addition to enjoying these great relics of Mayan Indians also see the wake of natural wealth