Yaxchilan

We celebrated Cinco De Mayo in Mexico! But Mexico doesn't really celebrate it, so it was short lived, but on Cinco de Mayo we visited Yaxchilan! To get to the ruins of Yaxchilan we had to go over land, up a river, and through a jungle. It was pretty adventurous.
I think the boat ride was our favorite part...








on one side of the river was Mexico and the other side was Guatemala

More Pictures!

Here are some more pictures I found from Palenque. These were around the town during one of our free days.


Eating some tacos in Mexico!

Ice-cream stop

I was so excited about my lime popsicle

Hammock store

I also found the pictures from the parade in Oaxaca and I was soo excited so I really want to post those too!








The children are so adorable!

Oh Palenque!

In Palenque we went to see some ruins that were located more in a jungle. These pyramids were beautiful and probably my favorite that we went to. Alot of the pyramids still have not been excavated and they believe it will take 3,600 years to fully excavate all of them. These were so cool though...




Most beautiful view!

The jungle behind me!





All the little vendors trying to sell stuff





Our favorite professors



Those stairs are a great workout plan

Something flew into my eye, don't judge me


Afterward exploring the ruins our guide took us on a little hike through the jungle.


Some people did the whole "Tarzan thing"

We just did the whole "tourist thing"

Villahermosa

We had a quick trip to Villahermosa.
It was very hot there.
We went to a zoo and we took some fun pictures...




This is how they keep their animals clean in Mexico


(This sign didn't stop us)

Monte Alban and a Very Large Tree

While in Oaxaca we visited Monte Alban, which are more ancient ruins, but for those of you who are more familiar with the movie Nacho Libre, you may know what I am talking about.

Nacho Libre was filmed in Oaxaca and at the end they are standing at Monte Alban overlooking the pyramids.

After Monte Alban we took a drive to Santa Maria del Tule.

This tree is 130 ft tall and 175 ft around, and it is said to have the largest circumference of any in the Americas and some say in the world.





It is all one tree

The tree is about 3,000 years old. It was cool to see and now to be able to say that I have seen the largest tree in the world!