Palenque – Chiapas, Mexico Palenque – Chiapas, Mexico is an incredible Mayan Ruin Site nestled in the jungle. This gallery of photos shows some of the bas-reliefs, sculptures, paintings, and architecture that makes this place so special and quite possibly the best Mayan site in Mexico, rivaling Chichen Itza. From the Temple of Inscription and […]
What? Better than Chichen Itza? Better than Uxmal? Better than Tulum? I can hear the jostling of “Mayan Ruin Buffs” everywhere… sighing. The Mayan Ruins at Palenque are some of the best ruins, Mexico has to offer! The forest around the ruins are spectacular, the campgrounds nearby are great, the food in Chiapas is amazing […]
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México is a little known tourist destination in southern Mexico. With a population of over 600,000, it’s the largest and most developed city in the state of Chiapas. We crossed the border checkpoint at Talisman through the El Carmen Border near Tuxtla Chica. The border is smaller than Ciudad Hidalgo and we […]
Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico We drove to Tuxtla by crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. No issues at the border minus an extensive search by an overzealous border agent. We spent a night in Tapachula to see if they had a way to fix our Jeep’s transmission. They said there was a Jeep Dealership in Tuxtla Gutierrez […]
Watching Anthony And Dreaming As I lay in my bed watching re-runs of DVR’d Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, a strange sense of excitement mixed with the uneasy-nervous energy of the unknown hits me. We are once again heading out to explore and seek out new adventures in three days. We are heading to Central America […]
Traveling Mexico A Place of Distinct Landscapes The Top 5 Destinations while traveling Mexico is too difficult to pin down! There are so many! So we have decided to narrow it down and pick the Top 5 Off the Beaten Path Destinations. Traveling Mexico is diverse in all respects, it’s a large country full of […]
Ahhhh back to Playa Del Carmen and Starbucks!!! Yes a Starbucks only half a block away from our hotel. Traveling around Central America one would think the coffee would be exceptional. It’s not. In fact, we found it terrible. There were few espresso bars and the coffee used at guesthouses and hotels were schwill. We […]
We realized we hadn’t really had many beach days to ourselves, only a few days left on the trip, so today we are going to the beach!! We took a cab to Tulum Beach where we bought a hammock and table-cloth from a little salesman with dreadlocks, who was into “Lucha Libre” (or professional wrestling). […]
We left Tikal at 7:30am after a wonderful birthday trip to Tikal. Heading from Tikal, we thought we might spend the night in Chetumal, Mexico and then move on to Tulum in the morning and then spend the rest of our time there, before flying back home from Cancun where we had started. Leaving Tikal was hard, and we […]
We decided to leave Playa Del Carmen. It was just too expensive for us to sustain any time there, and we would have had to get the rental car for another day etc… so we decided to get moving to Guatemala. We were pretty excited, and made it to the airport, dropped off the rental, […]