Palenque

Had one more night out on the town in San Cristobal, then it was off to Palenque on Thursday morning. Thursday night we ran into Mike and Angus (I know its not spelled Angus, its actually Aonghus or something crazy...but damnit man that will have to do!) both from the San Cristobal hostel. Friday we took a waterfall tour with Mike and saw some pretty amazing scenery, including the waterfall featured in Predator which Arnold jumps off. Found a tree to jump off and managed to entertain a small crowd of locals and tourists for a good 20 minutes with our daredevil antics, then retreated to a little restaurant where I polished off a record 14 quesadillas (we had no change so we had to keep eating until the bill came to 100 pesos!). Which brings me to one major irritation with Mexico in general, the complete lack of cambio! Cambio being spanish for change. Everywhere we go, 'Senor, Cambio?', 'No, amigo..'. No where has change, huge restaurants with 80 people eating at them, have no change, and when we do find a place with change it quickly becomes a race to see who can change their largest bills for the precious cambio, enough about that though. Today we hit up the Palenque ruins (great suggestion Grandmom!). Huge temples and pyramids which are tucked away in the jungle with an orchestra of monkeys keeping up the background noise. Very cool place and definitely the best ruins Ive ever seen, we'll see if the legendary ruins of Tikal can top them! Leave for Guatemala tomorrow morning at 6am, should get in to Flores around 4pm, then we're going to try to bust it right to Tikal from there. Looks like after Flores we'll all be going our seperate ways! Ryan wants to learn spanish for a while, and Jason has already seen Belize and wants to check out some things in Western Guatemala, and Im quite content with travelling over to the Carribean and working my way down Belize, the rough plan would see Jason and I meeting back up in a week or so in Livingston (Guatemala), not sure where we'd see Ry again. But as always, things could change before then, so who really knows!

Pictures!
Listening to the canucks vs wild game in San Cristobal via cknw.com
Shot of Palenque from the top of the tallest ruin
Agua Azul, one of the 3 areas that we went to on the waterfall tour, great swimming!