Saturday, June 16, 2012

Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

We took a day bus to Palenque which was nice for a change and only took about 5 hours. We got to Palenque late afternoon and took a taxi to El Panchan which is an area just out of Palenque in the jungle with lots of cabanas, a restaurant and a couple of bars. We stayed there one night in a cute cabana and it was nice wandering around in the jungle. 

We booked a tour for the next day to the ruins and two big waterfalls, Misol-Ha and Agua Azul. The ruins were very cool and definitely my favourite ones in Mexico. The Misol-Ha waterfall was crazy! We walked behind the waterfall and it was like being in a really intense storm. Luckily we put rain jackets on because you got soaked instantly. The Agua Azul waterfall was huge with a few different sections that you could swim in. There had been quite a bit of rain so the water was a bit brown and murky, not the beautiful blue we saw in all the pictures, but we still went for a swim!

Once we got back we had dinner at the restaurant in El Panchan and then got an overnight bus to Merida.

Our cabana

 Palenque ruins

 Misol-Ha waterfall

The poncho that saved the day

Agua Azul waterfall

One of the swimming areas

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