In August we'll be travelling from nort to south of Mexico by car. The longest jump is from Palenque to Campeche (200 miles or 356 Km). In many posts I read that on some internal roads it takes up to 5 hours to cover 200KM !!!
In your experience, how many hours will it take us to travel that way ?
Thanks Tom from Italy
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ursulapinguina
aprox. 7 hours, it's much nicer the way over Ciudad del Carmen, Villahermosa (which is not so Hermosa, but the olmec park is worth a visit) or just skip the city and go on to Palenque. You find hotels all along the way, nice little mexican town is Frontera. enjoy mexico
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ranchhand1024
Depends on how you drive, of course, but pretty good roads all the way, including a libre between Campeche and Champoton (as of 2 years ago). I left Palenque about 7, had an excellent shore lunch at Champoton, wasted 2 hours on a "shortcut" through a sugarcane field, spent an hour at Uxmal, and still got to Ticul before dark.
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