Be monsters

At the ruined cities of Tulum, Coba, Uxmal: eying monsters; a taste for insects, talons indicating otherwise.

The trees are too young there and the relics set beneath glass -
but the iguanas lived amongst the pyramids when they were still intact and the Mayans walked the Yucatan.

C (setting straight: the Yucatan's more than pretty haciendas)