Hotel Chablis Palenque

L'autobus
attraversa le baraccopoli attorno ciudad del mexico, che di fatto formano
parte integrante del circuito urbano. Sono cataste di materiale di alluminio
e le chiamano case e in troppi si dicono fortunati perche' hanno questo
poco. Proseguendo verso il centro incontriamo i grandi hotel a tante stelle
che nel tramonto di un giorno qualsiasi bloccano il sole e proiettano
le lunghe ombre sulla ...

... views of upper temples atop sweeping steps through the luxuriant jungle.

Having gained significant height to them there were still more winding jungle clad uphills to reach buildings 39 & up! Buildings not notable but setting, in the monkey filled treetops was! The all blacks were taking a break from the howling to swing from one fruit bearing tree to another and even baby got to have a go. The alpha male let his precence be known with the odd deep drawn ...

... 75-80 or so.

But anyways. The ruins were actually very impressive. The setting itself is unique, as you´re in the middle of the jungle, and some of the minor ruins are still not fully excavated from the trees and brush. At the entrance are the two main structures -- a large palace and a masive temple. For each of these, and for most of the other structures, there are very few limitations regarding climbing all over them ...

... br>Na glavnem trgu se v Mehiki vedno veliko dogaja...tu so tokrat plesali in peli. Trgi so tukaj przorisce druzenja..Prodaja kuhane koruze, bananinega cipsa, spominki in znacilni tkstilni izdelki tukaj dobro cveti.

Nahrbtnike sva pustila v hotelu in ob 22.00 sva se odpravila na postajo, od koder naju je nocni avtobus z 45 minutami zamude pripeljal v Merido. Veckrat ponoci smo se sredi ceste ustavili, kjer so vojaki in policaji pregledali avtobus.

Ich bin wieder zurueck nach Palenque gefahren. Ein Grund war, dass es mir dort gut gefallen hat und ich nur voll kurz blieb, der zweite, dass ich noch zu Wasserfaellen gehen wollte, die sich dort befinden.
So kehrte ich also in den Dschungel zurueck... Wunderschoen. Ich wurde auch direkt bei meiner Ankunft von den Affen 'begruesst'. heisst, dass sie mich mit Fruechten bewarfen...;) Also nicht direkt ...

... town in palenque is nothing to write home about, nor a place that you would want to stay there long as it was one of those towns that was fed by tourism hence dictating that every shop must be either a restaurant or bar and if you were not in those games then a taxi driver would suit and the best way to get custom is to swamp the buses as they arrive from all around Mexico or beyond. It was now getting quite late and we had been traveling for most of the day so as appealing the ...

... Once we got to town, I went out to pick Alice up from her hotel. She was leaving for Tulum at 8pm, and we went out for tea with her and some people she had meet earlier on her trip who all ended up being in Palenque at the same time. I walked to her to bus, and it was pretty hard to say goodbye, even after only having spent three nights hanging out with her. \We got along so well, its funny how you just seem to click with certain people you meet. Before she got on the bus, she challenged ...

We went to see awsome waterfalls at Agua Azul and went swimming in the slow flowing area of the river, swung on a rope swing, discovered a waterfall and many sleeping bats in the back of a small dark cave. And this is all before we went to see the amazing ruins of Palenque.
Once at Palenque, we got to walk around and explore the ...

... views over the ruins. While walking around these parts the howler monkeys would get louder and louder or maybe they were just getting closer and closer. I thought that the jungle setting of the Palenque Ruins was far better than those at Uxmal, Chichen Itza and even Tulum for that matter. I decided to visit the ruins later in the afternoon in the hope that there would be few tourists looking round ...

... pedestrians and traffic and you're never too far from a taco stand where Mexicans stand around eating these small parcels filled with fried meat and chilli. For some reason, in Mexico, sitting and eating are two activities that rarely go together. And the food, surprisingly, has turned out to be the most experimental for us so far on our trip. In Britain we are all used to eating Indian, Greek, Middle Eastern and Italian food, but Mexican never really seems to have caught on. For ...