Next thing I know it was 7am and I needed a wee. I couldn’t use the toilet, however, because there was a tree in the bathroom. Oh, so that crash at 3am, which we brushed off as the wind, was actually a tree falling through our roof. Everyone does the waterfalls, Misol Ha and Agua Azul, when they come to Palenque. Our advice: only go if you have nothing else to do, if you’ve never seen a decent waterfall, or if you can guarantee the “blue” waters of Agua “Azul” will actually be blue. At this time of year, the occasional thunder storm washes things into the rivers e.g. roads. On the hour and a half journey to the waterfalls, our bus driver had to avoid a few places where the road had been washed away
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