Videos tagged with "pyramid"

Pyramids Ecuador - Cochasquí / unedited [00:28]
Pyramids in Ecuador - open to public. The entire compound was - until recently - owned by a single family. It is currently under the care of the government of Ecuador and open to the public. The "main" or "most central" structure was dug up (in a most unprofessional way / utterly destroyed) before the family gave the property over to the government of Ecuador. When asked if they found anything the family member in question became nervous and skirted the question. Laughing we can openly discuss the gold they must have unearthed. Officially no gold was found. Nonetheless artifacts did/do? abound in and around this site. On a personal note, highly relevant archaeological sites abound everywhere we have dug in Ecuador. "Grave?" sites along the coast near Bahia have been approximately 30 meters deep. Other pyramids look like those featured in these videos - earthen mounts or hills, covered in vegetation.
Tags: Ecuador, Pyramid, Pyramids, Cochasquí, Tour, Llama, Alpaca

Backpacking Around the World [05:20]
8 months into 5 minutes (10 months depending on what you count as travel) Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Egypt, Britain, India, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Korea Apologies for the shaky camera hands Ghostwriter by Rjd2
Tags: Adventure, Travel, Fun, World, Asia, South America, Africa, Galapagos, Sea Lions, Dolphins, Scuba Diving, Machu Picchu, Sky Diving, Ostrich Riding, Bungee Jumping, Ziplining, Kilimanjaro, Hiking, Lion, Tiger, Pyramids, Camels, Taj Mahal, Golden Temple, Go

7-23-11 Cochasqui Tolas [00:15]
A view of the tola (pyramid) remnants at Parque Archaeologico Cochasqui
Tags: archaeology, pramid, tola, ecuador, cochasqui

Journey to Punay [17:27]
High in the Andes mountain range, we trek to the an ancient sacred pyramid, lost for hundreds of years, recently discovered (in 2003).
Tags: journey to punay, hiking, archeology, sacred sites, hidden treasure, pyramid, guacamaya, ecuador, history

La Mitad del Mundo, Equator Monument, Ecuador [00:45]
The Mitad del Mundo (Spanish: Middle of the World) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located in the San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, north of the center of Quito. The grounds contain the Museo Etnográfico Mitad del Mundo, a museum about the indigenous ethnography of Ecuador. The 30-meter-tall monument, built between 1979 and 1982, was constructed to mark the point where the equator passes through the country in the geodetic datum in use in Ecuador at that time. A line down the center of the east-facing staircase, and across the plaza, was meant to mark the equator, and countless tourists over the years have had their pictures taken straddling this line. In the modern datum of the World Geodetic System (WGS84), which is used in GPS systems and computer mapping products like Google Earth, the equator is placed about 240 meters north of the marked line. This discrepancy is partially due to increased accuracy but primarily due to a different choice of mapping datum. Similarly, the line marking the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in England is roughly 100 meters from the exact zero of longitude as indicated by GPS receivers. The pyramidal monument, with each side facing a cardinal direction, is topped by a 4.5 meter diameter, 5-ton globe. Inside the monument is a small museum that displays elements of indigenous Ecuadorian culture, such as clothing, descriptions of the various ethnic groups, and ...
Tags: la, mitad, del, mundo, middle, of, the, world, equator, ecuador, museum, monument