Mexico (Part 5)-Palenque and a beautiful hotel-Chan-Kah!

18 hours after leaving Oklahoma City, we finally arrived at a very small bus station in Palenque, Chiapas around midnight.  As late as it was, there was a crowd of people boarding a few other

all-night buses to far away destinations that had names I couldn’t even pronounce.  

We found a taxi in front of the station and  agreed on the fare of $4 (40 pesos) and away we went, 20 minutes down the highway through the countryside.   When we arrived at Chan-Kah Resort Village near the Mayan ruins there was only a desk clerk and a security guard, neither of which spoke English, but we managed to get everything set up and get to our rooms.

Chan-Kah Resort Village is set is a jungle like setting with lots of little casitas spread out in the trees.  Here are some photos:

                  Look at the vegetation growing from the roof of our room

                 Our sitting porch outside our room

Here are some pics of the walkway through the property.  You can click on them to enlarge

                                                  

The room was large and very simple.  We were pleased.  We agreed that we had chosen a wonderful property.   Take a look at their web site:

                                  www.chan-kah.com.mx/eng/      

Since we were traveling so light, the first thing we did was wash our clothes by hand and hoped they would dry in the humidty.  This was all part of the master plan:  travel light and wash our clothes as we went.  Once you get used to this system, you will never want to travel any other way–At least I don’t!!

I have to admit, my biggest fear about this trip was: would Carol be able to stand up to the rigors of traveling light, quick, washing clothes by hand, buses, language barriers, and be able to deal with the uncertainties and challenges of a trip like this?  So far, she had received an A+.  It only gets better from here!

Next-The Mayan ruins of Palenque! Incredible!

See my other travel blogs on NewsOk.com:

Colombia:http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/colombia/   Mexico:http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/mexico/    
    Caribbean island of Barbuda:                    http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/barbuda/     

San Juan with a 5 hour layover:                                  http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/san-juan-puerto-rico/        

Fly around the U.S. for the day:                                                http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/day-trip/

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