Chicken Itza Genius Sound Engineering

The echo of a hand clap sounds like the call of the quetzal.
siftbotsays...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Clap hands, bird call, Pyramid, Kukulkan, Chichen Itza' to 'Clap hands, bird call, Pyramid, Castillo, Chichen Itza' - edited by eric3579

Lendlsays...

Sounds even cooler in a large group. Highly recommend getting a guided tour through the whole site. Beautiful architecture and interesting history but also death. Lots n lots of death.

newtboysays...

Why would you say it's co-incidence?
The area was designed as a giant, open air amphitheater. It's not co-incidence that they built it that way. It was necessary because they didn't have amplification back then, and for the priest/speaker to be heard, it had to be built acoustically near perfect. I think you get the same thing if you clap in a Greek amphitheater.
(But perhaps you just mean the bird sound and the (mispronounced) name being co-incidence? If so, nevermind!)

SquidCapsaid:

Yup, it's a lucky co-incidence. That's what you get when you place lots of vertical planes in that arrangement, ie steps..

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