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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Lucy Thackray

‘Shame!’: Tourist pelted with water by angry mob after climbing sacred Mayan temple

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A tourist was pelted with water and booed loudly by locals after she climbed a sacred, off-limits Mayan temple.

The woman was filmed by bystanders scaling the enormous El Castillo (also known as the Temple of Kukulcán), a Mesoamerican step-pyramid at the Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico.

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