Blogs from Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, North America - page 14

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 was almost ahogandome offering a sacrifice to... the single one can to suffocate Mexican despues, the place periodically makes sacrifices in mass of different people q always suffocate the same day, single Mexican... we see ... read more

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 collectivo genomen richting Palenque Ruinas, very very very nice!!! Dit is echt wel indrukwekkend. Ruïnes in de jungle en very very very hot, de maya's moeten nogal conditie gehad hebben met al die trappekes...Tot nu toe het meest indrukwekkend ... read more

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 to tell us that, if we were up for it, we were having a guided tour of the Palenque ruins after hours with the head archaeologist of the site. Turns out he was Bens lecturer ... read more

I am in San Cristobal as I write this and already Palenque seems so far away, but more of that in my next entry. Spent 3 nights and 2 days in Palenque - beautiful true lush jungle setting (gets some of the highest rainfall in Mexico but now is the dry season), with hills, rivers, waterfalls and ruins and tourists. My mood in Campeche picked up a bit later than day as I was able to talk to some people - two different women from the hostel - one from Hungary and one from the States who has lived off and on in Mexico for about 5 years and an older guy who I kept bumping into on the way back from buying my ticket at the bus station, in the main square when music was ... read more

ANGLAIS It is now 6th February and we have some catching-up to do. The next few entries should bring us up to date. Palenque now seems like donkeys years ago ... We failed to take any pics of the ruins (but you can always go to google images if you're interested) and to be honest we've seen more impressive since: Tonina Ruins near Ocosingo. The only Palenque pics we did take were of the fire dancers. Nearby Palenque we went to the falls at Misol-Ha and Agua Azul, where Jason did some "power swimming" with the aid of a rope, against the current in the only place where it was not perilous. Oh! How much fun he had! At Ocosingo, after an afternoon of being stared by kids and adults alike, we ventured in a VW ... read more