Palenque Travel Blogs

  We should never have agreed to that. The German and the Italians left, while we stayed behind with the Australian couple. The roundtrip would not take more than 45 minutes under normal circumstances, but it had started to rain, and it took the driver an hour and 45 minutes to come pick us u…

A very important Mayan civilization that fluorished in the 7th. century,  located in the vicinity of the sierra, dominating the Tabasco and Chiapas lowlands  is in fact situated just 8km. from Santo Domingo de Palenque city. This is considered as one of the m…

New day, new destination...today its going up to the mountains, Palenque is our final! On the way there we more and more came into jungle and forest, everything was green and beautiful looking, exactly like i rememberd mexico from my first stay! In the travelguide we found a hotel that we al…

After visiting the statue park with Olmec heads we drove to Palenque. We saw a lot of different landscapes and finaly arrived at the nice hotel Nututun in the middle of the jungle. The hotel had a nice setting with an open reception and bungalows. The hotel had a very nice restaurant situated nearb…

Originally, the plan was a little different. I had heard about something called the Pan-American Highway that extended in one way or another from Canada all the way down through Panama. There was about 60 miles of jungle and then the Pan-American Highway (South) would pick back up in Colombia and j…

We went out to the Mayan ruins of Palenque (that´s our second set of ruins in a week!!). They were amazing despite the ridiculous heat...the ruins were like a lost city set amongst gorgeous jungle...apparently they were abandoned in 900AD and then were completely covered by the jungle for…

Legamos a la Ciudad de Palenque ya un poco tarde, pasamos a desayunar algo al mercado, luego fuímos por pilas a un Chedraui y nos encaminamos rumbo a la zona arqueológica, no chequé mi reloj!y ya eran como las 3 de la tarde. Entramos a la zona arqueólogica a eso de las 3:30, Alex y Michelle se…

11.23.08    Agua Azul and Misol-Ha Cascades   Change of plans again!  I just couldn’t leave without seeing the waterfalls.  They are such a national treasure and we were so close that I would forever be regretting that decision.   So we left early this morni…

More Mayan Ruins, Ok I´m all ruined out now!  But each site is impressive and distinctive.  I am glad I have seen and experienced the Maya region and history. The Palace at Palanque.

After our first overnight bus from Campeche we arrived with sleepy dust in our eyes! We were taken by taxi to the middle of nowhere which in realty is a place called El Pachan, which is about 5 minutes from Palenque in the national park. With high hopes of using our hammocks for the first time…

BUS JOURNEY Only 5 hours this time, woo! I swear these buses are trying to kill me. We passed an overturned lorry, and a huge pile up on the way! To my right was a screaming kid, and I mean screaming! Behind me another kid who thought it was the best thing in the world to bang a metal pog off the…

The hot, hot sun in Palaneque is going to make you want an ice cream but whatever you do, do NOT buy ice cream from the ice cream shop right next to Hotel Shalom and Hotel Nikte-Ha. The owner there is a a typical "lets get all we can frm the gringos" kind of guy and eventhough the 3 pesos really di…

It is always excited to do something for the first time in your life. Your first travel experience, your first kiss and for everything there is a first time. It was the same for me when we first arrived in Palenque. It was going to be my first time to see maya ruins in my entire life. Although stil…

My trip to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in 2004! Started in Mexico City, ended in Playa del Carmen.

After staying the night in Palenque, the next morning it was time to visit this Maya archeoligical site. We foudn out Palenque is a medium-sized site, much smaller than such huge sites as Tikal or Copán which we visited later, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculptu…