el lugar de muchos pasos as you can see I've subtitled this the place of many steps, as today we got to climb the stepped Mayan pyramids which lay on a very hilly site, so all I seemed to do for hours was climb up and down hundreds of uneven steps. Surprisingly my bad knee is holding up quite well, although sore now :).
the Palenque Ruins as fantastic, the best we have seen so far, and in my opinion better than Chichen Itza, you realy get the feeling of this being in a jungle with the howler monkeys and birds calling in the background, a very pretty and awe inspiring place with many ruins here still un-excavated and hidden in the surrounding forest.
the guided tour started at 8 am and was great because there was almost nobody here, after this we were free wander among the ruins. we then stopped for a break and I had a beautiful fresh mango and a coconut which after I had drunk the water they cut in half and scraped the inside out which I love to eat. we then wandered down the hillside alongside a stream with some really nice cascades, pity we could swim in it as by this time the temperature humidity had risen and my shirt was soaking wet, a swim would have been good.
this track led to the ruins museum which we looked through. after this I caught the local shuttle bus to the Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation park, Aluxes, where I spent a relaxing couple of hours walking thorough the jungle paths looking at the local fauna.
A very enjoyable day ...
Looks and sounds very peaceful and tranquil John
ReplyDeleteyes we got there early and almost no one else there, very pretty, I realy enjoyed the ruins at Palenque
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