Hotel Best Western Maya Palenque

... out what the attraction is for them.<br><br>Post lunch off for an hour at Bonampak ruins - much smaller but some well preserved and colourful paintings exist. Saw a couple fo snakes, one en route, dead on the road, but a good size, the other a green headed striped long skinny tree snake.<br><br>By about 4 I was dropped off at my cabana in the jungle at Lacanha de Chayansab ( or similar!), staying with some Lacandon. As the only unconquered Mayan tribe, they have hung ...

... vroce...skoz si zejen. Nasla sva tudi majhno pekarno, kjer bova jutri zjutraj kupila rogljicke.<br><br>Jutri greva na izlet do slapov, kjer se bom vrgla v vodo in ne bom sla vec ven. Agua Azul je baje najbolj zanimiv, drugi Misol-Ha pa je 35 m visok. <br><br>Proti veceru pa bova prispela v vasico San Christobal de Las Casas, ki lezi 2100 m nadmorske visine in je kot pravijo klima zelo sveza in rabis kar precej za oblect. Komaj cakam, da se malo ohladim.

... it to clean there skin, well no option, if I didn´t want to listen to one of his other lectures about living in unison with nature and that we Western folk have no idea about this simple life. So I rubbed my skin of the face and upper body with it following the examples of the two Mexicans and then we sat there and waited, the guy with an omniscient look on his face, feeling the nature and the gods coming back to him and me trying to feel the same till suddenly ...

... aeg kulub perekond mustjate j2lgimisele... hiljem p2evavalgusele tulnud t6de, et Palenque metsades asub pea t2issuuruses sauruse kivistis t6oatab sammude sattumist j2llegi Palenquesse...El Pachan`i...grillkana paradiisi k6igest 13 raha eest... hippie perro on kindlasti suureks saanud ja t2nu kasvanud nahapinnale hankinud ka vastavalt kirpe juurde...kuid siiski hippie perro! <br><br>ja l2inud me olemegi...ees ootamas Tabasco...<br>

... all of the national parks were being closed because of the influenza, including that of palenque. So even our trip down south missing out some parts of Mexico that we would have other wise gone to had all been for nothing. So needless to say a bit of a dampener had hit us and we made the choice that waiting around until it opened again was not really a option and also there was little to do around palenque aside from visit the park. With all that in mind we got out things together ...

... uncomfortable to say outside for long periods and everyone is either in the pool or air conditioned rooms. Tonight we are having a birthday celebration with a huge chocolate cake and a piñata, followed by party games! Its been a wonderful birthday and very different to one I would of had in New Zealand. Tomorrow we are off on a walk through the Jungle and to the Ancient Mayan Pyrimads in the jungle! From Hannah.

The Planenque ruines were set in the jungle, not as dence as Tikal but on a hill top with stunning views. I thought that having seen already 3 sets of Maya ruins they would all be very similar, but I have been proved wrong, they are all unique with the only similarity being the ball court and main temple present at each site, though even those differ in style and size. Planenque has ...

... areas of the ruins, they had a very good aquaduct system and unlike most other ruins, much of the colour of the painting and carving in the rock was still visible, we also got to climb most of the pyramids and walk inside some of the chambers, some were very dark and spooky. these ruins seemed to be quite unique. <br><br>At the ...

... road leading to the ruins is also lined with Hotels and backpacker hangouts with many of the latter offering camping or hammock space. <br><br>Transport <br><br>Colectivos run continuously between the town and ruins. <br>Colectivos also depart on the hour for the 2h 30m journey to Frontera Corozal ($60 Peso) which boarders Guatemala and is also the gate way to the stunning Mayan ruins of Yaxchilan.

... reason, I found myself looking blankly at long exotic menus before choosing something almost at random. So far we have eaten guacamole (even we knew what that was - mashed avocados with tomato, onion, lemon juice and chilli), burritos (flour tortilla served with fried meat and frijoles - mashed and fried beans), mole (sauce made of many ingredients including chilli and chocolate), quesadillas (fried cheese wrapped up in tortillas) and tacos (crispy deep-fried corn flour triangles ...