Wednesday 6 November 2013
Checked
out the ruins at Palenque, one of the first excavated in the nineteenth century
while the whities were speculating that maybe the Egyptians had come over to
the Americas to build pyramids as the Indians couldn’t be responsible for such
high culture; architecture, engineering, art, astronomy.
Absolutely
gorgeous. In the museum they had lots of
cool stuff but the highlight was the sarcophagus of Pakal, one of the
kings. Totally blew us away.
Then
onto Misol-Ha; beautiful 30 meter waterfall.
Then Agua
Azul. The limestone creates the blue
colour, and creates limestone formations as the water goes over the rocks. Too bad it started raining – hard. The place was really beautiful and the water
all azul. Would have been lovely to go
for a swim. But as it was we still got to
see the beautiful water and the falls.
Turned
out it was the start of a big rain weather pattern. The next few days were still good but the
rain was a bummer.
