Palenque

Sea to the Jungle

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October 31st 2006
Ok, so we are very quickly falling behind with our blogs, and forgetting everything...going back to last week, and after spending a week at the beach doing nothing but slob, we headed to Palenque, to see what the jungle had to offer, and in terms of ruins, bugs, and rain, we were not let down! We stayed outside of Palenque in a place called El Panchan. After a hair raising bus journey that arri ... read more

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » El Panchan

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more