Trip to Guatemala

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.

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. It is estimated there are over 3000 buildings, including some of the "temple" which towered high above the magnificent jungle canopy. This complex of buildings have been built 1500 years ago and it housed more than 100,000 Mayan Indians.

Some of the main building, until recently still been renovated, because the pyramid-shaped temple that 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 top buildings that have been able to climb, requires extra energy, because they have to climb stairs. There's also made of wooden stairs to get to the highest peak of the other buildings. Once on top, then can see all the forests and the complex of other buildings in this forest