Yucatan & Chiapas:Scorpions, bats and pyramids

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For that trip, one of my goals was to find scorpions or tarantulas and take pictures of them. I can't help it, I love these critters!!

I succeeded with the scorpions! I found one in the jungle at night, and the second one, my wife found it in her bed!

But for rest of the trip, I can tell that's it's a beautiful and varied region as for the landscapes and nature, culture, food.

In Yucatan peninsula, we visited Merida and Campeche cities, Celestun, (biggest concentration of pink flamingos in the world), Calakmul region where you have a cave with hundreds of thousands of bats that go out every night, and pass right by your face, (Cooool!) and also the ancient city of Calakmul deep in the jungle and with myriads of animals to see, and some cenotes in Cuzama.

In Chiapas, we stuck to the "Gringo route", by visiting Palenque, Agua Azul cascades and Misol Ha warterfall, and San Cristobal de las casas, where we visited the city, bought some amber and visited the awesome canon of Sumidero.

Here are some fo the pictures and movies we took.
March 30th I have added some new pictures.
April 11th, finally the video option seem to work now. I have uploaded 8 videos for the things that are better viewed as animations rather than pictures.
Enjoy!

Ciao!

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Photos

Scorpion in the bed
That's a 4 inches scorpion without the tail.

spider monkey
At Calakmul site.

Campeche
San Miguel fort. That's a mummy shown in the museum below.

Cenotes de Cuzama
There are 3 to visit. Simply wonderful and refreshing!

Howler monkey.
At Calakmul too.

Agua Azul
Real nice place. It's very crowdy though.

Campeche
Fortifications of th eold city

Our cabin in Becan
Nice place called "Rio bec Dreams". Cabins in the jungle and plenty of tours guides available

Canon de Sumidero
At one point, the cliff is almost 1000m vertical. Impressive!

Little scorpion
found that one in Becan in the jungle, 100 feet from our cabina

Canon de Sumidero
A 10 feet crocodile at the beginning of the canon

Campeche
You could imagine spaniards firing cannons at the pirates.

Palenque
That's a site that is esthetically very beautiful with the contrast of whites and greens

Misol Ha waterfall
You can walk behind the fall.