Muyal_Hix

If you want Chichen Itzá to turn into a quiet library it’s not going to happen.

It’s one of the seven wonders of the modern world, you have the same experience if you visit the Vatican or the pissa tower.

There are many other sites in Yucatan that don’t receive as many visitors like ek’ balam and mayapan. Those are usually less crowded.

I’ve been there many times.

“My objection is to the authorities who have permitted this kind of presence at a heritage site”

Not allowing them would wreck the local economy. It will not happen.

No matter how much you try, Chichen Itzá will never be tranquil, it is visited by thousands of tourists every day, so it will always be crowded and full of voices.

Vendors are usually local indigenous people, and selling to tourists is their only source of income, it would be silly on their part not to take advantage of the situation.

The worldnews subreddit is absolutely seething right now