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Palenque National Park (Mexico)

Description: Address: Chiapas / Palenque / Mexico

Newest Review: ... there's no shortage of options for accommodation and eating. Some of the restaurants around the bus station serve decent, cheap food if you're waiting to move on. To get to the ruins, you can easily grab a taxi anywhere along the main drag Calle Juarez (directly in front of the bus station), but a cheaper and almost similarly easy option is to track down one of the combis that wait on Calle ... more

... Allende - a couple of hundred yards eastwards of the bus terminal. Jump into one of the vehicles marked "Ruinas" and expect to pay around ten Pesos (50p) for the ten-minute drive to the site. If you need to wait for a combi, you can entertain y...more

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Palenque National Park (Mexico): Road to Ruins (1422 words)
by - written on 18/10/09 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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It would be wrong to describe the Mayan ruins of Palenque as being off the tourist-trail - hundreds visit the atmospheric abandoned city daily, and the dusty, if convenient nearby town of the same name is unashamedly directed at visitors. However, tucked away in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, it doesn't get quite the attention that the more celebrated site of Chichén Itzá so regularly courts. Those who do make it down towards the Guatemalan border, however, are rewarded by an ascent to a dramatic location. Surrounded by verdant jungle which still covers most of the site, a series of excavated temples rise up from the cleared plateau whilst a number of ... Read the complete review

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