Historical landmark
Nohoch Mul Pyramid
Towering jungle pyramid with a temple summit, reopened to climbers after years of restoration.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Nohoch Mul pyramid at Coba, near Tulum, follows the tallest Maya pyramid on the Yucatan Peninsula through a modern dispute over how to let people climb it again. You will hear about the decades of unsupervised climbing that wore down its ancient stone steps, the twenty-twenty closure by Mexico's antiquities institute, and the engineering fix that divided opinion when the climb reopened. Along the way it traces Coba's own network of ancient stone roads reaching deep into the jungle.
This audio guide was created using AI.