While I spend the day getting over my fever, Cindy, Liam and Miles visited Uxmal, one of the more ornamental ruins of the trip. They also so came across a few iguanas. The Mayans at Uxmal were really into kings with big noses Another ballcourt that reminded us of Harry…

One of the nicest places we stayed at was a place we came across by chance after another hotel we had planned to stay out, turned out to have closed down. We ended up spending 2 nights at the Flycatcher in Saint Elana, which coincided with my 24 hour fever,…

After a long drive from Chiapas, we stopped to visit the Edzna ruins, which we really impressive, but we made the mistake of climbing the main temple was Liam was hungry, he managed to make it through! Liam thinking about how hungry he is

The market in Palenque town in Chiapas was a great place to grab breakfast, and is where our neighbor in Chicago, Beatrix, is from. This is where we had the best salbutes ever–salbutes are a local dish in the Yucatan, made of a crispy tortilla topped with a bean sauce,…

We drove up the windy roads of Chiapas to go to the beautifull waterfalls of Aqua Azul, where minerals in the water cause the water to be really bright blue. On the way, we entered Zapatista controlled autonomous zones, which reminded me of "Free Derry," but the Zapatista run check…

Definitely the high point of the trip, Palenque is the Paris of the ancient Mayan world, with beautiful palaces in a lovely, misty, mountain backdrop, with lots of streams, all overlooking the plains of Tabasco, with the sounds of screeching monkeys in the background Miles was sad in this photo…

The Mexican bus system is pretty impressive, but what's really impressive is their bus shelters which are all the same shape, built to withstand a nuclear blast, and painted in a variety of pretty colors

The most popular way of moving people, freight and regular supplies were these bicycles that were ubiquitous throughout the Yukaton, but almost universal in Chiapas

Overlooking the Gulf of Mexico while eating very fresh fish for breakfast outside of Chompoton