taco's & toucan's travels ~ 2019

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DAY 22

Week 4

OAXACA DE JUÁREZ (Oaxaca, MEX) to PALENQUE (Chiapas, MEX)

Friday April 5^th, 2019

TODAYS MILEAGE – 741 miles / 1,193 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 15,187 miles / 24,441 kilometres

Even though I had a early morning wake-up call set for 3:30, I was up at 3AM to finalize the rest of my gear for our early departure.

We hit the road as scheduled at 4:30 AM and headed over to the Xoxocotlán International Airport, where we caught the Aeromexico AM2407 service to Mexico City, which departed on time at 6:30 AM.

With the short 90 minute layover, we were back in the air on the Aeromexico AM507 service to the Carlos Rovirosa Pérez International Airport in Villahermosa, Tobasco arriving at 11AM.

From there it was cramped 3 hour / 140 kilometre (90 mile) minibus ride to our accommodations at Hotel Maya Bell, which is located deep within the Zona Arqueológica Palenque (Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque), in the adjoining state of Chiapas.

I had every intention of heading into town to check it out over the afternoon, but had to change rooms as me and pedestal fans don’t have a good working relationship (I’ve had two catch fire over the years). It may have also had something to do with the frozen mango margarita’s, the lure of the pool, my DILLIGAF attitude or a combination of all of the above????

While a few of us were sitting around the pool, word filtered through that one of our female Irish group members had left their phone and passport on the bus and was trying to locate them ..... without a lot of success unfortunately.

The evening was spent celebrating one of the group members’ birthday, that included Linda trying to belt the living suitcase out of her piñata – a fun way end to end the day.