A German tourist

Sorry for not sending out best. I hope the guys wore socks in sandals at least to properly represent our national outfit.

I wish more people got their asses kicked for violating historic places and things.

Good. Wish more locals in tourists hotspots would gang up on asshole tourists. Like Bali is infested with entitled westerners and asshole bogans. It’s the colonial mindset these tourists have.

The headline annoys me, it makes it sound like a hapless tourist was attacked by vicious indigens.

I can well imagine how they told him not to do it, and eventually had to resort to physically getting him back down when he just didn't listen. Maybe technically an attack, but at the very least it should've read:

"Tourist violating ancient artefacts attacked and restrained by locals" or some such.

Sounds like a cause for human sacrifice

Fuck yes. Doesn’t matter if you’re a German tourist in Mexico, an American tourist in Japan, or a Chinese tourist at an American buffet— respect the local etiquette if you are going to travel.

I climbed that pyramid forever ago when it was still legal to do so.

Tons of people were going up & down. I didn’t realize things had changed and that it was also on the list of “new” 7 wonders of the world.

It was a bitch coming down though because it’s so steep.

Anyway, dude should have known better.

Hell yeah! When you're visiting another country, you are a guest in their country and should obey their laws and rules.

Idiots.

I have no problem with this.

oh shit... i was there on that day! and i missed it...

I guess I'm glad my parents took me in the late 80's/early 90's when you were still allowed to climb it.

I keep meaning to get my mom to dig out the photos we took from the top.

What an idiot not only for potentially damaging an ancient pyramid but also because those stairs are only about 3" deep and it would be incredibly easy to come tumbling off that when coming back down. I scaled one that was maybe 10 feet tall outside Playa Del Carmen (not a perserved one but one you can climb on) and even that was terrifying to come down as a tall person.

It's great that we're enforcing laws that are there to protect our anthropological heritage. It's not so great that it means this violator is attacked by the locals.

As an aide, I feel like Mexico themselves have quite a ways to go to protect the heritage site. The grounds of Chichen Itzá are absolutely overrun with "tour guides" telling dumbed down or outright fabricated stories and literally hundreds of souvenir stands with obnoxious sellers that don't shy from any tactic to try to get your attention.

Walking around in that area should be serene, educational and immersive. Instead, it's like being in a kindergarten, where hordes of salespeople are incessantly calling out to you ("where are you from, sir, where are you from?"), literally throwing cheap Chinese junk in your direction, playing drums and pan flutes or squeezing squeaky toys and gimmicks that are meant to sound like monkeys. It's a cacophony of cheap garbage and harassment from locals (and nonstop clapping to hear the temple's acoustic effect) that takes you out of experiencing your surroundings in an inkling of tranquility. In fact, only from specific angles is it even possible to capture a photo of the Temple of Kukulcán without the brightly colored eye sores of a hundred nearly identical souvenir stands visible directly adjacent to it.

Mexico should also take more pride in this site and treat Chichen Itzá with more respect.

Lucky that he didn't get his heart ripped out and the head thrown down the steps

Punks jump up to get beat down. Or I guess climb up to get beat down in this case.

I was lucky enough to go there when they still allowed people to go up the temple at Chichen Itza, and it was pretty cool, but I couldn't image just climbing shit they tell you not to. Especially when the reasoning is protecting heritage.

Honestly, he's lucky he didn't trip on the way down. Those stairs are steep.

Lucky they didn’t get their heart cut out and show to them like in the good ol days

Good, now sacrifice him to whatever God they believe in

Wow, they made the temple in Forza Horizon 5 a real thing! How did the tourist get around the invisible walls though?

/s

E: fun fact actually, in the game it isn't covered by an invisible cube, but rather a pyramid shape that starts at the X and Y of the temple corners but is about 1.5x the height of the temple. Strangely enough, other temples do use a cube/rectangle barrier that far exceeds the height of the asset it is protecting (mostly structures at Ek' Balam). This suggests that this temple was unique and handled seperately, but the lower protection is really strange. Maybe just an oversight, maybe a requirement from Mexico officials, worried that the usual system wasn't enough to keep players from messing with it - which, amusingly, allowed players to get above it, but other structures are immune.