The Ruta Maya

So, Hannah came out on the 1st December and after a day's rest we embarked on a rather-too-quick tour of some of the finest sights that the Classic Mayan route has to offer.

Seeing as we can't be bothered to write much we're just going to stick up photos instead.....



In front of El Castillo, Chichen Itza - probably the most famous Post-Classic Mayan city



Temple of the Moon (I think), Chichen Itza




Palenque - a Classic era Mayan city



The Temple of Inscriptions, Palenque, also home to the tomb of King Gran Jaguar II



San Cristobal de las Casas - in Mexico's south western highlands, and spiritual home of the Zapatista rebels who hold several areas around the city



Street life, San Cristobal


Into Guatemala and "the most beautiful lake in the world" - Lake Atitlan. This was the view from below our room on the first night......


And this was the view from our room, the second night


Antigua - old colonial capital, very pretty, very touristy


Volcanoes above Antigua's and Guatemala City's skyline


A visit to Volcan Pacaya - very active....... how close should you go?



This close!



Good for roasting marshmallows - you just have to get close enough to the molten rock.....

That's all for now. Tomorrow we're heading to Flores on a long bus ride, from where we'll take in Tikal and a quick visit to ARCAS before heading to Belize.
Just a quick apology for the quality of the photos - since Blogger.com introduced their new all singing, all-dancing upload system, the quality is rubbish. And there doesn't seem to be a way around it! Someday I'll join Facebook like other people suggest.