We cover some ground in this trip and today was no exception. Eleven hours of bus rides was ahead of us. We mosied our way down to the bus station and dropped off our bags. While we were waiting we amused ourselves in the massage chairs (expensive at 50 cents a shot). The chairs gave quite a strong massage and made our tummies wiggle.
We traveled along the flats towards Campeche, the capital of Campeche the state. My moonwalk on the polished concrete in the terminal didn’t impress the security guard and I was asked to move to the footpath.
The trip was long and we eventually stopped for a 25 minute lunch break around 2pm. We can’t remember where it was but the signs said “No tires/rubbish!” afterwards we worked it out as “Don’t throw rubbish!!”.
We traveled through the lowlands of Tabasco which is quite wet with swamps, rivers and lakes. It was also very green.
Eventually we arrived in Palenque after dark. We had to get our torches out to find our room in the foothills of the highlands and jungle.
Dinner was a great affair which started with a nip of tequila, kindly donated to all by Claudio which was as tequila is – very strong! 
We stuck to Mexican food for dinner and a few beers and only one pina colada. The local band was playing and they were pretty damn fine. A few of us (Tan and I) and some locals got up and started dancing. Eventually we had about 15 people up and dancing on the small floor to the awesome tunes.
When we arrived back in our cabana by the pool Tan went to the toilet. As the toilet was refilling after the flush a strange and very loud howling noise came from the bathroom. Tan asked “Is that the toilet?” No way!! I listened from the bathroom window and it sounded like a bear-baboon-lion sound and it was very loud. Monkeys!! We donned our flashlight and went out. Put it this way the Howler monkeys weren’t to impressed we when flashed them with the torch and they went into overdrive with their noise. Monkeys in other trees started and we had an orchestra of monkeys howling in all the trees. We left them alone and they eventually subsided 15 minute later (thankfully as were tired!).
We traveled along the flats towards Campeche, the capital of Campeche the state. My moonwalk on the polished concrete in the terminal didn’t impress the security guard and I was asked to move to the footpath.The trip was long and we eventually stopped for a 25 minute lunch break around 2pm. We can’t remember where it was but the signs said “No tires/rubbish!” afterwards we worked it out as “Don’t throw rubbish!!”.
We traveled through the lowlands of Tabasco which is quite wet with swamps, rivers and lakes. It was also very green.Eventually we arrived in Palenque after dark. We had to get our torches out to find our room in the foothills of the highlands and jungle.
Dinner was a great affair which started with a nip of tequila, kindly donated to all by Claudio which was as tequila is – very strong! We stuck to Mexican food for dinner and a few beers and only one pina colada. The local band was playing and they were pretty damn fine. A few of us (Tan and I) and some locals got up and started dancing. Eventually we had about 15 people up and dancing on the small floor to the awesome tunes.When we arrived back in our cabana by the pool Tan went to the toilet. As the toilet was refilling after the flush a strange and very loud howling noise came from the bathroom. Tan asked “Is that the toilet?” No way!! I listened from the bathroom window and it sounded like a bear-baboon-lion sound and it was very loud. Monkeys!! We donned our flashlight and went out. Put it this way the Howler monkeys weren’t to impressed we when flashed them with the torch and they went into overdrive with their noise. Monkeys in other trees started and we had an orchestra of monkeys howling in all the trees. We left them alone and they eventually subsided 15 minute later (thankfully as were tired!).
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