How not to start a tour

We're doing great, we're early, we grab some savouries and a coffee. We're at the pickup spot, a bus rolls up and the guide tells us to get on. Unfortunately, they dont use a manifest, so expect you to know the bus you're getting on is the correct one. 

We're kicked off 3 blocks down the road with 10mins until pickup. Good thing we were early? Had we been later, we might not have made that mistake! Finding other English speaking tour guides for other tours, they direct us to the exact spot to wait, and we successfully board the correct bus. 

We arrive at San Juan Teotihuacan pyramids and are mobbed by souvineer sellers hocking their wares. The pyramids echo with the sound of panther and death whistles for sale. Buying obsidian is the true cost of admission though, and we pick up a cool thing or two.

The pyramids are known for the three astronomically aligned temples to the Sun, the Moon, and the Feather Serpent God, Quetzacotal.

As we walk through the valley of the avenue of death, we take a look to our right, and realise that, we've been walking and touring so long that, we've come upon the next temple of renown. Cheers Coolio.

The avenue of death was named for the burial grounds it was ultimately built over. 

The Sun pyrimid is not the most important one here as it turns out, but rather the Moon.

We're half way up the Moon pyrimid here, with no further access allowed. The pyramids of the Moon and Sun are central to determining the solstices, as from this vantage point, the sun will set over the pyrimid of the Sun. The Sun pyrimid is also full of the remains of child sacrifices. 

The meso-americans considered the tops of these pyramids to be sacred gateways to the super-world above, and the tunnels beneath the same to the underworld. We're not on that tour today, though.