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So we are in Palenque, Chiapas today. We arrived yesterday. This is one of the centers of the Zapatista revolution several years back. Chiapas is still under the control of the zapatistas to some extent.  We took a tour up into the mountains today and saw several signs, etc that say, ÿou are in zapatista country. They are very friendly, supposedly. actually everyone here is very friendly, and again our spanish is good enough for us to communicate and understad people and order vegetarian food, etc. 

  We went to the Palenque ruins yesterday, which are old mayan ruins. They are very impressive pyramids and stuff like that. There are lots of giant lizardy things that make these scary loud hissing sounds. At least that´s what I think was making those sounds(semicolon) it was either that or monsters!

Today we went up to see some spectacular waterfalls and we swam in them, too.  It is really up in the mountains that things look a lot more like a 3rd world country. Simple houses, and little kids (mostly girls) being very very very insistant that you buy their fried bread or lemon or friend banana, or regular banana, etc. It is kind of annoying, but cute, too.. There are lots of stray dogs around, too. They are very cute and all of them are about luna sized.

Weather has been pretty hot and humid, and it rained really hard for like 10 minutes, still its not horrible.

The food has been pretty good. We are liking the handmade tortillas. Oddly enough, here they are fond of giving you stale bread with salsa, whereas in america they give chips and salsa.

I assume you all know that it´s myriam´s brithday today, and are all sending her wishes on her 3^3 birthday!

Tomorrow we are off to ocosingo, in Zapatista territory. They supposedly have a big market place. We havent found any vendors of wild mushrooms, although someone offered us psychedelic mushrooms(we think), which we kindly refused. 

 

ok, we´re off!!

==Señora y señor Miguelito Cohen==

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