El Panchan is a hippy jungle commune type place on the outskirts of Palenque town in the jungle near the Mayan ruins. It had a very chilled out vibe and we secured ourselves a nice little cabaña to hang out in complete with noisy geckos! After getting settled at Magarita and Ed's cabanas we tripped back into town to try and post home our textile and vase purchases which we had been lugging around for quite a few days. It is surprising difficult to get packaging materials anywhere, we ended up scrounging a used box from a shop, then amused the local shoe shine boys trying to resize to fit our goods with our handy gaffa tape! The first night there we went to one of only two places to eat in the little village
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