weberwest wrote:
Thank you Reuss, good to see you having a look at my new series - welcome aboard! and thank you for your kind words. You have a good question - and I actually had to go to my friend Google to find the answer and it is: Yes and No, you can climb a variety of structures but some have no access. The image I shot of the Temple 1 aka Temple of the great Jaguar was definitely shot from up high: I climbed an adjacent pyramid for that photo. From what I remember, and my memory is not any more what it used to be, even though this trip was taken less than 4 years ago, I climbed up a fairly regular stair, believe it was an extra structure built to access the platform level of the pyramid I was on. Going up the original steps of the pyramids can be very steep, with narrow steps and possibly slippery surface, as you can see looking at that shot of the Temple of the Great Jaguar, not necessarily a safe thing to do. I remember climbing a set of such steps in Angkor Wat/Cambodia in the Sixties, holding a movie camera on tripod in one hand and a camera around my neck, it was tough getting up and actually quite scary facing the way down! Hopefully later in this year I should have the full albums of this excursion posted on my web-site.
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Hate to butt in here, but you took this from Temple II. I know that view. And TII has a side stair built so that people can climb up it. The same is true of Temple 4.