We’re staying at this place called the Rossco Hostel and everything here is awesome. Its pretty cheap, 125 pesos for a room and they offer a free nights stay if you’re there for 3 nights, theres a pool table, TV room where you can watch DVDs or plug in a USB stick with movies, they provide extra blankets here if you’re cold, there’s a bonfire from 8-10pm, they sell backpacker items such as locks, sprays and food, the showers here are hot(!), free breakfast, use of kitchen, laundry service and last but not least the staff are amazingly helpful and friendly.

It just dawned on me that if it wasn’t so cold and I wasn’t farming later I would actually ask for a job here! The boss speaks good English and the staff understand English so I could learn from them. There aren’t any westerners working here so I could be a good English speaking receptionist. All you need to know is admin, house protocol and policies and you’re done. I think I could pull it off.

Last night we were at the bonfire and we cooked hot dogs and marshmallows! I never in a million years thought I’d be cooking hot dogs over a fire in mexico.

I thoroughly recommend this place to anyone who comes to the area. Perhaps later on in life this is an option to stay for a while.

Today we went to see a canyon. Currently we’re in the highlands and its freezing cold at night but pretty hot during the day. Its a big shock to go from nice sunny weather to near freezing temperatures.

The canyon was amazing to see. The highest point of the canyon is approximately 1km! There was much wildlife to see, lots of different birds, a couple of igwanas and some crocodiles!

The canyon has much pollution and some parts of the river had lots of bottles and trash in it.

There was a waterfall in the canyon which was pretty spectacular to see. It was only a trickle of water but it looked very unconventional.

Next we’re gonna head to Guatemala and try do a volcano trek. We’re gonna have to stay in San Cristobal for another day as we didn’t book a bus to go to Xela. It sucks as there is nothing else I wanna do in this town.

I have been in contact with an organic farm in Guatemala and they have invited me to come work. They want me to work on the farm as well as make a new website. That should be interesting as I haven’t really managed an entire web project on my own and I’ll be using other peoples equipment as well as doing it in another country.

It will be an experience and a half!

We rock up to Palenque at 5am having caught an overnight bus from Tulum. We’re nakered as we didn’t get much sleep on the bus. Luckily my tablet has a little battery so we see on a map where the hostel is.

We walk around a find the place. Palenque is quite a safe area. Police are about and there doesn’t seem to be any groups of dodgy looking people.

Once at the hostel we look at a dorm but also enquire about a private room. Turns out the private room is cheaper than the dorm! So we get the dorm, but then the guy screwed up his English and its not cheaper, its more expensive, but only a little.

The room is one of the best we’ve stayed at so far. Double bed each, 2 pillows each, what feels like silk sheets, private bathroom and shower. The only bad thing about the room is no WiFi! It doesn’t reach the room. Next to the bed is a menu which describes the services the hostel has to offer. This place knows how to take care of its guests.

We catch few hours sleep and get ready at 12pm to go to the ruins. Its relatively cheap as it only costs around £3 to get in. The ruins here feel more spectacular than the ones in Chitzen Itza. Chitzen Itza pyramids are larger in scale but they’re really spread out. Palenque pyramids are closer together and they’re in the jungle too! Trees growing all around them and grass all over too.

I will need to link this post to photos as I cannot describe the beauty of the scenery. These type of ruins are what attracted me to see the Mexican pyramids. The scale of the pyramids are amazing. The steps are huge, making me think the Mayans are large people.

We didn’t get a guide this time as we felt like walking around and admiring the sights. I can’t wait to go to Tikal as those ruins are apparently the most incredible of them all.