Teotihuacan

So last weekend I went to Teotihuacan, an archaeological site north of Mexico City with some of the largest pyramids in the world. I ended up going with three people, 2 Americans and 1 Mexican, who work at CTS, the Center for Sustainable Transportation, an NGO in Mexico City. I met them through David, an MIT grad I met through a friend.

We set out quite early in the morning, meeting up at 8am. This was especially by Mexican standards, where the partying doesn't start until after midnight. It did mean that we got to Teotihuacan before the crowds, and the heat.

Teotihuacan is about 25 miles outside of Mexico City, reachable by a 30 peso (<$3) bus from one of the bus stations at the northern edge of the city. There are two major pyramids, the pyramid of the Sun and of the Moon, as well as many, many other structures. Teotihuacan was once the biggest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, and had contact with other civilizations all across the hemisphere. It fell quickly, going from over 200,000 to just a few thousand in a few years.

The Pyramid of the Sun

Crawling through pre-Columbian sewer systems