After nearly three days of recovery in San Cristobal Carol thought it was ok to catch a bus, then we decided to move on, this time to Palenque. Bad idea… The road was full of curves on the mountain and Carol was very weak and she felt very bad. Result, we had to take a day to rest in Palenque.
The city of Palenque is nothing interesting and is not the best place to rest or chill . We heard that the best to stay in Palenque, it is to get a room in the jungle, but as Carol was feeling we didn’t think it was a good idea.

But then, the next day, already recovered, we decided to visit the Mayan ruins, which are in the jungle and it is super green and beautiful cause now it is rainy season. The ruins were nicer than we expected, just a pity that some parts were under renovation.

While Alexis was climbing all the pyramids, Carol was still not 100% full of energy was sitting waiting in the shade. The ruins are beautiful and we had pleasant afternoon, visiting also waterfalls and the museum.

That same day we took a night bus to Merida, one of our last destination in Mexico. Merida is also a colonial city and a high light of Mexico, but it did not impresse us that much, maybe because we have seen several other more beautiful colonial cities in the country. But anyway it was a good stop, as there are many options and cultural things to do around, such as museums, ruins, cenotes, villages, caves, beaches, etc…

In Merida the heat is intense so we stayed in a delightful hostel with big swimming pool. On the first day we did just relax by the pool. So cool!

The next day we went to visit the Mayan ruins of Uxmal and even after seeing several, we still enjoyed it, because this one has a different construction style and there we could still see many hieroglyphics carved on the rocks, which is rare.

Mérida, to be continued in the next post…