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Day 11 - Thursday 10th July: Palenque Mayan Ruins & some impressive waterfalls

Booked my onward bus ticket out of Palenque for 9pm this evening - I'd been tipped off by an Austrian guy in Mexican City that there wasn't anything other than the ruins to see here, so to stay only a day at most. So when I arrived at my hostel last night to be offered a tour of the ruins and some local watefalls that finishes at 6.30pm it fits perfectly.

Palenque is the first of the Mayan ruins I will be visiting which if I'm honest is the main reason I wanted to come to Mexico. I hope in the coming week or so to see Calakmul, Uxmal, Chichen Itza and Tulum in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.

The Palenque ruins are set to the backdrop of Jungle and you can hear howler monkeys in the trees (didn't manage to spot one unfortunately). The ruins date between 100BC and 900AD and are very impressive, certainly amongst the most amazing sites I've seen. From the top of some of the taller structures you can see right over the Yucatan plain. Whilst the main ceremonial ruins

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