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*komole* 

Wait, please tell me you ‘sang’ this and not read it…

If you sang, we know your age bracket now. lol.

Ok, so in the spirit of repentance - and my promise to do better and make more post-  allow me to gist you about my visit to one of the 8 wonders in the world.

Yes, I said 8 because, hello, if my existence isn’t a world wonder, then what else could be? 😌

Ehn? Ehn?

So yeah…8 wonders.  

Now, let me tell you about the time I found myself standing in front of one of the wonders of the world - Chichen Itza.

Yup, Chiche Itza, in Mexico. It is a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the new seven eight wonders of the world. 

So we got there and we had this tour guide who gives us gist and ‘facts’ about this place and its history. The thing is, Small thing, this guy will say ‘swears’ 😏 which only meant to me, that he was capping. Cz, oga why are you swearing when no one asked you? 

If I’m being honest though, I would say I really wasn’t feeling the whole ish… maybe because the sun was scorching or maybe because I had gone ahead to read about the Mayans and all the rituals and human sacrifices that were carried out in this place back in the day. 

Basically, like the young’ins would say, the place was giving human sacrifice and heatstroke. 😞

Add to the fact that Mr. Tour guide kept talking about gods, snakes, skulls and tell me why he showed us knives that were supposedly ‘sharp enough to cut off the human head in seconds!’

So last last, I was there for the photos as I stopped listening to him and started minding my business because at that point, everything he was talking about was none of my concern anymore.

Anyways, before I traumatize you people, let me share some photos. 

The first one… an epic fail. 

I saw the influencer type photo below and decided to recreate it… 

                                                                     

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dudes and dudettes…

After about 2 million tries, this was the closest I got.

I guess influencer life is not part of my calling. 

*wipes lone tear*

I’ll end this with a few fun facts i found out about the pyramids… 

Though there is a very rich Mayan history behind all this, I wasn’t feeling it enough to go deep into it.

So if you want the full historical breakdown, abeg, google is your friend. 

* The Pyramids clap back! I had fun with this one, so when you stand in front of the main pyramid and clap, it echos and this echo sounds like a birds chirping. 

*The Pyramid is basically a giant calendar, it has 365 steps - one for each day of the year.

* Nobody really knows how it was built, no modern machines, no trucks, cranes and all that. Just people with serious determination.Yet, it’s still standing.

*It was a whole city, not just the pyramids.

* Tourists are not allowed to climb it anymore. Don’t come and fall and start calling their name. 

*approximately 2 million tourists visit every year… and if most of them are like me, they probably wont be coming back. 

Anyways, thank you for coming to my mildly traumatizing Ted talk.

So do like this ☝if you want to read more about this trip.

As always… ✌ 

xoxo