Can you Belize it?
2007-06-17, Palenque, Mexico. By: nutanp

I said the next time I wrote I hoped it would be from Mexico, and it is. Honestly, at the moment I am not feeling the best of the best. Sickness feels around the corner, although I am trying to prev...

2000 year old ruins and some waterfalls
2007-01-07, Palenque, Mexico. By: pedrofletc

After a couple of nights in San Cristóbal, Aidan and I took a late afternoon bus for Palenque. On the way to the bus stop we ran into someone I used to work with in Sydney, an activist called Gemma wh...

fire dancers in the jungle
2006-04-28, Palenque, Mexico. By: lindy

Last night we saw awesome live music that ended with drums and fire dancers, it was amazing. I really want to learn how to spin poi- just wait and see... I will impress you all when I catch my hair on...

car sick in chiapas...
2006-04-27, Palenque, Mexico. By: lindy

grrr...I just wrote a whole thing and somehow it was deleted...so here I go again…round 2: I am in the jungle and it is backpacker’s paradise. it is somewhat ironic that there is an air conditione...

Maya in the Jungle
2006-01-09, Palenque, Mexico. By: manana

Today it is time to visit the great Maya ruins in Palenque. The ruins are not that far from the hostel and i started walking. At the ruins a little kid of the age about five sold me a neckless with a ...

Once upon a time in Mexico
2005-05-20, Palenque, Mexico. By: snutbrown

Our time in Antigua didn`t turn out to be quite as hectic as we thought it was going to be as the day that we had planned to go to Panajachel on Lake Atitlan, I woke up with a really bad migrainey typ...

Mayan ruins and diarhoea
2005-02-18, Palenque, Mexico. By: FrancesK

Two waterfalls were visited today and whilst I should have loved it I actually rather despised it. The first falls, Agua Azul, have beautiful crystal clear blue water that tubles down through what onc...