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By claireandraffi
May 16th 2007

The Mayans

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Hello! Wow this has been a hectic week! after our first days of trying to fit in the whole of mexico city, we then stayed one day and one night in the pretty mountain town of San Cristobal de las casas. the town has lots of recent history as it was a Zapatista controlled area for a while. the dispute between them and the government still isnt completely sorted but thereÂ´s no signs of anything remotely like that in the town. all the buildings are brightly painted, and the mexicans there continued to be very friendly, helpful, and generally jus good [View Full Entry]

By Snipleton
May 11th 2007

Life´s a beach!

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Ouch!

Puerto Escondido. Yeeeeeeeeeha!! Da beach!! B-) Finally, after a torturous 6hr 2nd class trip from Oaxaca City to PE I got here, the bus took us through 2000m mountains and sort of jungle at lightening speed on those switchback roads that made even *me* feel motion sick at times, and that never happens! As Yoporai would say "Necessito vomitaria"! (sp?) But once I got here, woah! It's beautiful. My two Dulwich friends had left me a little note at reception so I met them at an idylic beach cove surrounded my palm trees and little tiki huts. Muay bueno! The [View Full Entry]

By Frederic on the road
April 22nd 2007

Les photos de Palenque

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Jungle Tree

Coucou, La connection et les ordis, ici a Zipolite, etant tres lents, je vous envoies petit a petit les photos des jours precedents… I’ll tell you the few anecdotes that go with each place too... So in Palenque, in the middle of some Jungle, I stayed in a small traveler’s village: El Panchan. From there I did some horse riding, visited the local ruins and went to some waterfalls... I stayed in a little Cabaña. In the morning I woke up with the strangest animal sound I have ever heard: it was very close and going around my little hut and [View Full Entry]

By Dan and Dani
April 6th 2007

Palenque (31st March - 1st April)

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Templo de las Inscripciones - Palenque

Our bus left Puerto Escondido at about 2.30pm and from there it was a 5 hour ride to Salina Cruz where we then had a two hour wait before catching another bus to Villahamosa, which took a further 8 hours, and then finally a 2 hour trip to Palenque town, arriving about 8am the following morning. Palenque Town isnÂ´t too amazing so we stayed about 5km down the road towards the ruins in a place called Margarita and EdÂ´s, which is set in the jungle. Margarita and EdÂ´s was pretty alright. We had a little cabana with bathroom, hot water, [View Full Entry]

By SharkStalker
March 30th 2007

Pastel Streets and Jungle Ruins

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Blue Door

27/03/07 - 30/03/07 Pastel Streets and Jungle Ruins Arriving at Campeche, we first glimpsed the Mexican Gulf and a huge Mexican flag flying over the town. Campeche is a historic fortified town and UNESCO world heritage listed site. It was founded in 1540 by Spanish Conquistadores and soon became a wealthy port. Due to its wealth, pirates and buccaneers attacked it regularly and so to counteract this the Spanish fortified the City with huge walls. The remains of the fortifications still exist with numerous bulwarks and walls but the real beauty of the town are the narrow streets of multi- [View Full Entry]

By Halessa
March 24th 2007

Magic Trip

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I'm Mexican, and I have been liking to travel, i go in cascades of Misol Ha in Palenque Chiapas for days, was something spectacular and magic, simultaneously almost I am killed, the cascades invited to swim, I was almost by an instinct to help to cross to a old one that so far desaparecio and it volvi not to see, soon enters to me in cascades and a force pushed to me downwards as if outside a small ant in desague of a washbasin, with much force my heart empezo to and pumping but old blood and when I could react [View Full Entry]

By KingZ Nanna
March 3rd 2007

Misol-Ha / Agua Clara / Agua Azul

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Misol-Ha

Hoi trouwe lezertjes, hier weer een korte update van de dag... Na een stevig ontbijt de was gaan uithalen in de lavanderia ( nog geen 3€ voor 5 kg!!! Ssshhht, wel niet tegen papa vertellen... :-) Vandaag was de 'Día de Cascadas' (dag van de watervallen) Rond 9 u met een busje vertrokken vanuit El Panchan met als eerste stop * Cascada de Misol-Ha: WWWAAAAAUUUUWWWW. Een waterval waar je achterdoor kon lopen over een pad en dan voor de durvers/grot-exploratoren die konden nog verder over de gewone rotsen: very slippery, broek zeiknat... we zijn zelfs nog een stukje verder gegaan in [View Full Entry]

By AliceWanderingLand
March 2nd 2007

Ruin(ed) Jungle

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Well not totally ruined. Yesterday I took a long tour from Palenque to two ruins near the Guatemala border - Yaxchilan and Bonampak - left town at 6am and got back near 7pm - long, wonderful and extremely hot day. Left early, just as it was getting light out, for the long drive - 148 km plus along the Carretera Fronteriza - a long drive with the frequent traffic bumps (and they are serious bumps in villages and some I think to allow for easier military, police chases as this zone has numerous military checkpoints (we were only stopped at one [View Full Entry]

By KingZ Nanna
March 2nd 2007

Palenque

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Palenque ruinas

Vanmorgen om 6u geradbraakt uit de bus gekropen, onmiddellijk een taxi genomen richting El Panchan (huttekes in t bos) Na lang (héééél lang) wachten, ontbijt en een paar spellekes kaarten, konden ze ons eindelijk vertellen dat er een cabaña zou vrijkomen, woehoe, het wachten was de moeite waard! Eerste verdiep, nice uitzicht, wel al huisdieren gezien (hagedissen, Op dit moment kruipt er hier trouwens ook een tegen de muur) dus voor alle zekerheid de clamboe al maar opgehangen: de muggen zijn hier agressief, ze hebben het al aan de levende lijven ondervonden, jeuk jeuk jeuk. Deze middag coll [View Full Entry]

By Doug and Bec
February 26th 2007

Wedding dress fever

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Banana flower
A beautiful flower on a banana tree in the jungle of Palenque

Blogger Bec There are many ways a girl can get into her wedding dress: dieting, exercising, fasting, detoxing, pills, having a tube stuck up your bum, mud or seaweed wraps... OR... you could do what I did and get pandemonium inducing, injection requiring, sheet changing gastritis!! Blogger Doug We spent today pooing instead of weeing as Bec so aptly put it. A product of the drugs killing off the infection I suspect. Ben and Phil went off to Palenque during the day whilst we watched a full cycle of programs on Warner Channel cable TV. At around 4:30pm, Ben returned [View Full Entry]

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