Blogs from Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, North America - page 10

Day 331 - Tuesday 26 August The bus dropped us off in Palenque about seven in the morning and we checked ourselves into a nearby hotel. As the bus driver for some reason had been playing music all through the night and we´d had to all get off the bus when it refuelled at four I'd had a lot of broken sleep. It was off straight to bed. I was up just after lunchtime and we went to have a walk around the town. Its just like many other small towns I've visited, rather pleasant. As its such a warm day though I soon decided to leave it until later this afternoon and used the hotel pool instead. Early evening we carried on our eploration of the town. As its such a warm night we didn't ... read more

Finally had some real hot mexican food. All i can say is FUUUUUCK! Hot but good. I'm in a internet cafe with wireless and have borrowed their laptop sitting on the dunny trying to get my arse as close to the water as possible. 6am bus tomorrow, hot water doesnt come on until 6, so will probably do some handstands under the (relatively) cold water first thing. Oh and went and saw the Palenque mayan ruins. Just as an aside. ... read more

San Critobal De Las Casas, 28-01-1990.A full five hours by a ramshackle bus got us to this small but very picturque town full with indigenas in their tradicional garb. These clothes must take quite a while to make and be costly, still most of these indigenas seem poor and come to this town from their villages that are scattered around San Critobal. Laden with handicrafts and vegetables they come here to sell their wares often spending whole days just sitting around and waiting for customers. Small little boys and girls running all over San Cristobal trying to sell gewing-gum for not more than a few mexican pesos. We have come to San Critobal to hike to these villages and see the way they live, maybe talk to them and visit their curches which are rumoured to ... read more

Palenque, 27-01-1990. We managed to creep up to some howler monkeys yesterady and observe their behaviour but, most importantly, listen to them!!! It is clear to me now why they are called howler monkeys. Unfortunately the monkeys, as well as us ,got disturbewd by some american tourists who made even more noise as the monkeys did. Leaving the monkeys to the noisy americans we followed a path through the rain forest that surrounds Palenque, to a small village many miles away. We had to walk through a tropical down pour for what seemed like a long time before we got picked up by a local truck. ... read more

Efter en 12 timers udemaerket bustur ankom vi lettere forvirrede og morgentraette til Palenque Pueblo busstation kl 7 om morgenen. Vi var naermest ikke traadt ud af bussen, foer vi blev hevet og flaaet i fra alle sider af ivirige tourguider og hotelejere, og da vi jo som sagt havde tilbragt 12 timer i en bus, var vi maaske (overraskende nok) ikke helt klare i knolden, saa vi endte med at sige ja til en 12 timers dagstur rundt i Palenque og omegn!!!! Turen var med afgang kl 8, forstaaes! Og da klokken allerede naermede sig 7.30 og vi stadig ikke havde fundet et hostel til vores ting, var vi ved at have en anelse travlt!!! Men vi naaede at kaste os ind paa et hostel, spise morgenmad, skifte toej og klare hvad man nu ska ... read more