Teotihuacán in 3D: See the City as It Was in 450 CE, Plus a Self-Guided Audio Walk
3 hours
About this experience
At its height Teotihuacán was home to perhaps 100,000 people. Today it is bare stone. This experience puts the city back: hold up your phone in the Plaza of the Moon and a time wave turns the ruins into the plaza as it stood around 450 CE, painted red, ringed by its thirteen platforms and filled with a festival crowd. Walk the plaza, jump between the walk's stops, and tap any building for what stood there, what is there today, and how we know. At the site, your camera becomes the window. Anywhere else, the 3D city opens straight away, so it works before your visit to plan it or after to remember it. Your ticket also includes the self-guided audio walk of the site: 12 stops along the Avenue of the Dead, from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent to the Pyramid of the Moon, in English or Spanish, at your own pace. The reconstruction follows the excavated footprints of the buildings; heights, colours, the festival and the people are interpretation, and the experience says which is which.
- Experience type
- Day tour or activity
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Audio guide
- Spanish, English
- Guide
- Spanish, English
- Categories
- Walking tour · Cultural and theme tours · City tours
What's included
3D reconstruction of Teotihuacán as it stood around 450 CE, in your phone browser Walk freely or jump between 8 viewpoints, with 14 places explained then and now Live camera view on site: the past appears over the real ruins Self-guided audio walk of the site: 12 stops, 2.3 km, English and Spanish Lifetime access: open it any day, as often as you like
What's not included
Site admission (about MXN 210 full price), bought at the gate or online A live guide or a fixed start time Climbing the pyramids, which is currently closed Tip or gratuity Food and drinks Entry or admission fee
Please note
To start, enter the ticket code from your confirmation at https://roamer.travel/redeem, before you set off while you still have signal. Everything opens in your phone browser; there is no app to download. Open the 3D view once on wifi before you go: it is a large download, and signal on the site can be weak. At the site it works best with the phone held up at eye level in the Plaza of the Moon. Away from the site, it opens straight into the 3D city. The reconstruction is an interpretation: the buildings follow their excavated footprints, while heights, colours, the festival and the people are reconstructed from murals and excavation reports. Climbing the pyramids is not allowed at present. Stay off the structures and behind the ropes. Bring a charged phone; earphones for the included audio walk. Public transportation nearby
Itinerary
- 1Day 0
Temple of the Feathered Serpent: The Carvings Saved by Burial
Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa
A stepped temple once carved with feathered serpents on every face, saved because the city later buried its front behind a plain red platform.
- 2Day 0
The Ciudadela: A Plaza Built for a Crowd
Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa
A walled square about four hundred metres across, ringed by fifteen small temples, where the city's two great avenues are thought to have met.
- 3Day 0
San Juan River: Even the Water Followed the Plan
Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa
The river under this bridge once wandered across the site; the city dug it a new, straight course set to the same angle as its streets.
- 4Day 0
Superimposed Buildings: A City Built on Its Own Past
Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa
Two compounds where archaeologists left the layers exposed: one building inside another, one floor laid over the floor below.
- 5Day 0
Avenue of the Dead: A Staircase Toward the Mountain
Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa
The avenue climbs twenty-seven metres in a chain of sunken courts, each closed by a wall like this one, toward a pyramid set against a mountain.
- 6Day 0
Pyramid of the Sun: The Mountain Built by Hand
Camino de los Muertos, San Francisco Mazapa
Raised in one great effort in the first or second century CE over a tunnel dug into the rock beneath it, and about sixty-five metres high.
- 7Day 0
Avenue of the Dead: The View Up to the Moon
Camino de los Muertos, San Francisco Mazapa
The avenue rising to the Pyramid of the Moon and the mountain behind it: the composition the avenue was laid out to end on.
- 8Day 0
Palace of Quetzalpapalotl: The City at Human Scale
Plaza de la Luna, San Francisco Mazapa
A palace up a stair guarded by a serpent head, built over an older temple and pieced back together in the 1960s; go inside in small groups.
- 9Day 0
Inside the Palace of Quetzalpapalotl
Plaza de la Luna, San Francisco Mazapa
Two stops inside that you play by tapping: Patio of the Pillars, Jaguars and the Buried Temple of the Feathered Shells.
- 10Day 0
Plaza of the Moon: The Stage of the City
Plaza de la Luna, San Francisco Mazapa
A plaza ringed by thirteen matching platforms, once all painted, with a central altar and an enclosure of altars set to the four directions.
- 11Day 0
Pyramid of the Moon: Seven Pyramids in One
Plaza de la Luna, San Francisco Mazapa
Seven pyramids wrapped one around the other, the last finished around 450 CE, set to repeat the mountain behind them.
Meeting point
Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Mexico City Camino de los Muertos, San Sebastián Xolalpa, Estado de México, MX
Pick up
Pickup is not provided.
Cancellation policy · Teotihuacán Self-Guided Audio Tour: Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, Plus a 3D View of the City in 450 CE
Standard Viator policy
- Cancellation 0–24 hours before departure: 100% cancellation fee.
- Cancellation 24–24000 hours before departure: 0% cancellation fee.
Good to know
Operated by Roamer and sold by AGORA. Your voucher and booking reference arrive by email straight after payment.