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RE: Just another hike | The beauties of Southern Mexico | Photo album
I'm glad your friend convinced you to post these. It looks well worth the hike to get to the falls. Any mosquitoes or other bugs flying around? :)
I've never been to Chiapas. The closest to Mexican jungle I've been in is the area around Coba, the ruins inland more or less from Tulum in Quintana Roo. We managed to miss the bugs there which is why I ask.
One of these days my wife will get down there again, and maybe we'll get to places we haven't seen yet. There is so much to do.
Good job 'earning' your view. :)
Oh man its the central american jungle, of course there was a lot of mosquitoes! But nothing to worry about, I had a yellow fever vaccine a year ago and that is the only "danger" you can get from mosquitoes around there .
Coba is amazing, I went there around a year and a half ago, so majestic and its amazing that you can actually climb it! Unlike Chichen Itza or Tulum, you are able to see the world from where the Mayans saw it a thousand years ago :)
There didn't happen to be a huge beehive near the top of the largest stone pyramid at Coba, was there? The view from the top was definitely awesome (aside from the potential for bee stings), because of the way you could see the lake appear in the distance that you couldn't see before because of the trees. We had quite the experience there at the hotel with a very cold water shower. :)
Yeah, it's too bad they don't let you go up the pyramid in Chichen Itza. That would be an amazing sight. Or for that matter from the other raised areas. Still, it's awesome just to walk around there and realize that someone with some incredible knowledge built that place. And yet, they or those that came after them could be so cruel and savage.
Tulum is more of a beach front property with smaller buildings. Not as much to really get up above and see, so I didn't mind that so much. The iguanas getting bigger the farther you went in was fun. Thankfully they weren't confrontational. :)
You can climb the pyramid at Uxmal (Yucatan, very steep and small steps), but if you really want the climb, you go all the way to Teotihuacan. Done that a couple times. The scale of everything there is mind boggling.