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Hi Everyone,
I hope you like the photos so far, whilst we are in San Cristobal we will try and upload the rest of our trip photos so far!
Puerto Escondido was very fun but there isn´t that much to do there apart from surf and drink so we did one of the two (you can guess which!). The place itself is nice but the people we met there definitely made the trip there worth while. The hostel we stayed in was brilliant too, with a crazy owner from the UK! One evening whilst we were there you can volunteer to release the turtles into the sea which as you can see from the pics we loved! The guys who work there travel up and down the beach all night every night waiting for the mother turtles to lay their eggs then they dig them up and re-bury them in a safer place and its volunteers like us that release them every evening. Out of the 450 turtles released that night 10% will survive with the help. If they didn´t get any help then only 1% would survive. We had a lot of fun and hope ours survive!
From Puerto Escondido we took a thirteen hour night bus to San Cristobal de las Casas a mountain town very much like Oaxaca but much much smaller. Here it is lovely and the weather is cooler than Peuerto Escondido which was HOT. Here we have explored the town and been in it´s many museums so far. Today we took a trip one hour away to the Cañon de Sumidero where we took a two hour boat trip 42km down the river. We saw so much wildlife- birds, fish, monkeys and a crocodile! At the highest point the canyon is 900-1000 metres deep and when the Spanish Conquistadors came the Mexican Indians threw themsleves off the top of the canyons walls to escape slavery.
Tomorrow in San Christobal Tom fancies going to the Museum of Mayan Medicine and we are going to hike up the two hills nearby to check out the views and the churches on top of them.
Tuesday we are taking a trip to Palenque (one of the best ruins in the whole of Mexico) which is in the heart of the jungle so we will be cracking open the mozzie cream/spray and feeling like Indiana Jones!
After this we will take another (shorter - 5 hours) bus journey up into the Yucatan Peninsula to Campeche- famous for pirate landings and the first place the Spanish Conquistadors landed in Mexico.
We can´t believe it´ll be 4 weeks on Wednesday already! The trip is going so fast and we are doing so much.
Hope everyone is well.
Lots of Love
Fiona & Tom
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