Palenque and it's Magic mushrooms

As I liked it so much in San Cristobal, I was changing my arrival day to Palenque all the time but this day finally came and I have decided to take a bus early in the morning. Of course the bus was late (like always in Mexico, just get use to it) and arrived to Palenque too late to see the ruins so I just asked some people on the bus station if they don´t want to take a taxi with me (the result was that we took a 4 bed hut together as it was cheaper) to the “hostel” called Pan chan. It’s not a real hostel because it’s some kind of camping in the middle of a jungle.

Finally we have arrived to this “famous jungle” where they have this “famous” MAGIC mushrooms. I have no idea if they are honestly so magic but I know that lots of people are taking them and having this whole day/night trips throw the jungle looking for the monkeys, smelling the ground and hugging the trees. It could be interesting but after almost the whole week of partying in San Cristobal I decided just to relax, drink a couple of beers and talk to my new friends about the life, listening to the monkeys roaring, sound of the river and rustle of trees. It was a perfect time to clear my mind and have a rest of the nowadays world that if full of electronic, technology, cars and pollution. There was only me, my beer, nature and mosquitoes that were the only disadvantage of being in the jungle.  

Next day, as I had only one day to see the most important stuff in Palenque, I took a tour to see the Mayan ruins, and two waterfalls that are called Misol- Ha and Agua Azul (blue water). It wasn’t bad because it was not a real tour, they were just taking us to the places and later we were able to see everything by ourselves. We had 4 hours in mayan Ruins, one hour in Misol-Ha and about 3 hours in Agua Azul. For me there was quite enough time to see everything without being in rush.

I loved everything of these places.

The Mayan Ruins, in the middle of the jungle are amazing. I can´t imagine like the people in the past were able to create something that big without using the technology!! I´m still in a really big shock. I was just walking around, admiring the strength and perseverance of this tiny mayan people. They did things that we, nowadays people wouldn’t be able( or we would be too lazy) to do it with all the technology that we are able to use. GOOD JOB Mayans!! Even if you did mistake by predicting the end of the world, I still think that you are/were damn clever.

 

 

The next stop was a Misol-ha waterfall. Nice, small waterfall that you could skip but anyway it’s on a way to Agua Azul so you can take advantage and go to see it.

And the last stop was a waterfall called Agua Azul. From the first second that I saw it, I wanted to jump to a water and stay there forever. I went to the top of waterfalls where me and my one day room-hutmate have found a tree swing and we were jumping all the time, having fun because of that small thing that the most of the people didn’t even think to use.