Sunday, June 10, 2007

El Panchán, Palenque, Mexico



It's 8 hours by bus to Palenque, crossing from Yucatan to Chiapas. The landscape is flat, grassy and uninteresting so I find myself watching a moronic film on the bus. I'm exhausted by the time we arrive in Palenque, a non-descript little town but famous for the nearby Mayan ruins of the same name. I'm staying in a cool jungle community, according to my guidebook, called El Panchán. It's not exactly as I expected - just a series of basic cabins in untidy undergrowth with a restaurant and bar annex. I'm told it has changed a lot in the past few years and has lost much of its spiritual feel. Still, I'm here to see the ruins and I'm very excited about that.

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