2007 Mexico - Chiapas
One Bonampak
This is the song Abby and I invented on the long minibus drive back from Bonampak and Yaxchilan to Palenque:
(sung to the tune of “One Bottle of Pop”)
Uno Bonampak, dos Bonampak, tres Bonampak, cuatro Bonampak
Cinco Bonampak, seis Bonampak, siete siete Bonampak.
Monos hay en Yaxchilan, Yaxchilan, Yaxchilan
Monos hay en Yaxchilan, y muchas escaleras.
Pajaros en Palenque, Palenque, [...]
Villahermosa
Queridos,
On Friday we flew into Villahermosa, the largest city in the southern state of Tabasco, Mexico. We picked Villahermosa, sight unseen, as our jumping off point because it is just a couple hours by bus to the jungles of Palenque. Imagine our startlement, two weeks before the trip, to find Villahermosa as front-page news across [...]