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Yaxchilan: Remote Mayan Site in Chiapas Jungle–Get There By Boat!
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 13 February 2012
Yaxchilan (Yash-chee-lahn) is situated on the high banks of the Usumacinta River that borders Mexico and Guatemala, three hours southeast of Palenque.
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Bonampak Archeological Site: Mayan Treasure in the Chiapas Jungle
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 12 February 2012
Bonampak is at the farthest reaches of Chiapas near the Usumacinta River in the Selva Lacandon — a rainforest jungle that is almost three hours from Palenque.
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Selva Lacandon Territory: A Chance Meeting
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 10 February 2012
My journey into the Lacandon jungle along the Usumacinta River that is the boundary between Mexico and Guatemala began simply with a top-of-the-list visit to Na Bolom (Jaguar House) in San Cristobal de las Casas.
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From Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas: Preview
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 31 January 2012
On Tuesday night January 31, I will be on the ADO-GL overnight bus to San Cristobal de las Casas, set to arrive mid-morning on Wednesday, February 1.
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Getting There – Bonampak & Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 May 2011
Bonampak After two and a half hours on severely pot-holed pavement (which is even worse than pot-holed dirt) we were happy to park the truck at the ramshackle village-run welcome station near Bonampak archaeological site. Here you’re required to pay 71 pesos per person (about US$6) to the local Lacandon community. That pre-entrance fee entitles you to a seat on an old school bus with all of the windows missing for the 20 minute drive to the site itself. Almost as soon as the bus pulled away from the ugly mess of unfinished concrete at the ejido entrance station we entered another world.
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DÍA 6: YAXCHILÁN Y BONAMPAK
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 4 July 2010
A las 5.45 de la mañana había muy poca luz, así que tuvimos que ir casi a tientas al punto de encuentro. Allí había otros viajeros que iban a compartir el día de excursión con nosotros. A las seis en punto nos vinieron a buscar y, tras recoger a otros viajeros en diferentes hoteles de la zona, pusimos rumbo a Yaxchilán. Poco recuerdo de nuestra salida de Palenque, porque a los escasos minutos me quedé dormida. Solo me desperté cuando hicimos una parada para desayunar. En esta excursión estaba todo incluido, incluso las comidas.
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Checkpoints in the Jungle P2.
Blog: Say Yes to Tacos - 15 January 2010
The next day was the leg we´d been waiting for, and debating, for days: the Carretara Fronteriza. Four hundred kilometers of jungle-skirting two-lane highway, thick with military checkpoints, howler monkeys, and indigenous communities. We waded through dense, bright green jungle yesterday, but now we were cruising past rolling green hills, distant blue mountains, and small [...]
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