After walking a ways past the North Palace, you come to El Mirador.  El Mirador felt the best to me of all of the temples at Sayil.  I really felt drawn to chant inside this temple.  It looks similar to the El Mirador at Labna.

According to the INAH Plaque accompanying this temple, El Mirador has 5 vaulted rooms and walls covered with rough hewn stone blocks on a rectangular base about 4 meters (about 13 feet) high.  A projecting stairway is located on the south side.  The Mayans built this temple in the Early Puuc architectural style, with a roofcomb with openings resting on the central dividing wall of the 2 rooms on the temple’s west side.  The Mayans decorated the front and sides but not the back.  The stones projecting from the south side functioned as spikes to support and embed stucco made elements.  Archaeologists suspect that 2 human figures were in each facade corner and another in the facade center.