Nearly There…

An early start would mean that we made it to the ruins before the crowds - and before the sun got too much. So we were up for breakfast for just after 7am.
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We stocked up at breakfast then got a taxi to Calle 19 in the lowlife district of Zona 1 where the buses left from. We knew that this was going to be a hectic place, rife with pick pockets and folks ready to whip away bags the minute you took your attention away. The taxi driver even indicated that we should keep an eye on our bags by pointing at the bowels of the bus where the bags were heading for and then pointing at his eye with a grim look on his face.
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We aimed for our final day in Flores to be fairly chilled out. We just needed to sort out some transport from Guat City to Copan in Honduras if possible. Eug had sent off various emails to different companies the day before but we’d only had one response from ‘Ariel’ [whiter than white?] who was quoting around US$150 - daylight robbery.
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Skyscrapers aren’t new. The Mayans were building them years before the glass and steel variety of today, and with far less technology to help them reach for the sky. What’s more, there’s no chance that contemporary slithers of glass, concrete and steel will be standing nearly two Millennia after they’ve been built, unlike the unsurpassable ruins of Tikal, deep in the jungle of Northern Guatemala. And for you Star Wars fans out there….does this look familiar?
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Christmas Day - what a great excuse to finally have a lie in and read some more of the books! We opened the curtains to find the whole place covered in mist. We wondered if it was all the smoke remaining from the excess of fireworks and firecrackers being set off the night before! It didn´t take long to clear though.
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Staring down at the Rio Usumacinta swirling and eddying it’s way northeastwards into the plains of Mexico, my stomach began to mimick the thick brown water gushing its way between the land borders of Mexico and Guatemala. We’d known that to get back into Guatemala this way involved a river boat ride between the two countries, but spying the ramshackle wooden boats and staring into this torrent of dark brown gunge sweeping down in front of us made us begin to think that maybe this hadn’t been the best of ideas!
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Palenque ain`t that big although it always seemed rather busy. A quick swizz at the well-thumbed Lonely Planet took us to a cafe in town - can´t remember the name now.
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Thought we´d slip this entry in for our mate Victor who has a particular interest in bandits.
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Apart from exploring Central America by ourselves and generally relaxing (yes, believe it or not), one of the key reasons for coming here was to carry on our love affair with ancient civilisations. Em might disagree here and say it was my love affair and that I’m an ancient civilisation……
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We`d tried to be fairly organised before we came away this time by booking much of our accomodation - that goodness for t´ínternet. Palenque was one place we hadn´t booked but after a quick search online the day before we arrived, we decided that we´d try the Casa Inn so we got the bus to drop us off there.
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