Howdy, We pick up our story in San Cristobal de Las Casas..... We went to visit the nearby highland village (chicken sacrificing village), which was an eye opener! The church is quite amazing, they have no pews and the floor is covered in pine needles and there is candles everywhere (the villagers go in there to pray for all sorts of things) its a fire hazzard waiting to happen. Unfortunately for us, there was a family who were sacrificing a chicken, not a pleasant experience, we must say. We went shopping around the local markets and tried to communicate with the locals, which was a task within itself a very exhausting time, although we did manage to make some purchases (of course). We took a mini van to Palenque, along the way we stopped at Agua
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