Waterfalls and ruins

3:30am wake up today to check out and get picked up at 4am. We were on a small shuttle bus that wound through the very tight mountains. At 7am we stopped for a buffet breakfast and then kept driving till about 9am when we arrived at the first waterfalls Agua Azul which were super long and very impressive. We walked about 1km up seeing all the different sections and we swam upstream. After we piled back into the bus and drove to the next waterfalls Salto de Agua which was one large fall which you could walk behind. It was very impressive too! We had a coffee before we drove to Palanque ruins where we had two hours to look around. The Mayans were here and it was a very busy city of about 8,000 people at its peak. It’s thought it was designed too closely together with 4 people per square metre. The people all moved away to other cities and this was the downfall. We found the falls that Zoe had heard about but you were no longer allowed to swim there. We checked into our hostel in town, had some chips and beer before heading out to dinner at a seafood restaurant. I had a massive serve of local river fish fillets with a spicy capsicum sauce. We went to bed early as were very tired!Read more