Maya Bell RV and Camping Park Palenque

WE headed to palenque to see the ruins with a pit stop of a night in aqua azul. agua azul is a series of beautiful waterfalls, i have no idea how many falls, at least a few dozen - we didn´t manage to see them all. it was hot and humid, but the water was very cooling. it was tourist heavy in the morning, but no one semed inclined to venture far from the souvenier stalls and restaurants, so we were able to find some very peaceful pools to splash about in. at night some people came around tryin...

THINGS WE LEARNED: Always bring plenty of food and water on long bus trips; When staying in thatched roof cabanas, beware of falling insects! INTERESTING FACT: Pico de Orizba, visible from our bus, is a beautiful 5611m high volcano, the third highest in North America next to Logan and McKinley. MAYAN RUINS AND THATCHED ROOF SURPRISES From Mexico, we had a grueling 13 hour bus ride to Tuxtla, during which the monkeys that keep Chad going were dropping like flies, and he was on the verge of jum...

Hot, and muggy here, but a nice change actually. After dropping out of the highlands, we are now at the Maya Bell campground (actually ¨trayler¨park). just outside the ruin. It´s nice and neat. Quebecers seem to rule the campgrounds these days, and we have fun re-meeting people from various other places. Gillie is enjoying the trip, and seems happy as usual to meet new dogs everywhere. We´re also happy to be here, and are well and thoroughly enjoying all the beauty of this paradise. If there ...

After Mexico City/Teotihuacan, we decided to pick up the pace and over the last few weeks we have probably covered as much ground as we had the previous 2 months. I say probably because the fact is we have no idea how much ground we are covering on the trip: the odometer on the van stopped working somewhere in southern California. From Teotihuacan we headed due east to Puebla, Mexico's fourth largest city. Puebla saw witness to a new low in frugality for us, as we paid only $14 a night for a ...

Hola from the edge of the ancient Mayan world. We are at Palenque, one of the largest (15 square kilometers) Mayan sites. It was once connected to many other sites such as Tikal and Chichen Itza and played a very important part in Mayan architecture and civilization. This blog incudes two other sites as well. Bonampak (about three hours SE of Palenque) and Yaxchilan (another 45 minutes SE to the Guatamala border). These sites along with Tenina were key in the development of the Mayan world in...

Welcome back everyone, We left Chetumal at 7.30 am on our trek West in convoy with Terry and Margo and Vern for Palenque almost 500 kilometers away. We had a good drive with a mixture of good and bad road and made it by mid afternoon. The Mayabell campground is close to the ruins inside the national park but is small and more for the backpacker types. We squeezed ourselves in though because it has a pool and is surrounded by jungle at the foot of the hills makes it the most pleasant campgroun...

I arrived early in the morning, attached my hammock (which is smaller than I thought...) and slept. Early afternoon I went to the Mayan archaeological site of Palenque despite the high temperature and humidity.

Man, it's real jungle there ! Yucatan was just bushes compared to that. And that's great, it gives the ruins a cool feeling of "lost temple". I heard some Howling Monkeys and saw some tropical birds (too bad I have no Idea of their names), but not munch; the flora is more impres...