/bow
After leaving the Yucatan, I went to San Cristobal in Chiapas. That was luvly until the Government of the time (end of '93) decided it had had enough of the locals marching for their rights, and
bombed the **** out of the place using helicopters and planes supplied by the US to combat drug-traffickers.
After a couple of days of dodging around the attacks, me and my girlfriend hopped onto a bus and fleed, and we ended up hanging around a place called
Palenque.
Palenques an amazing place, full on rainforest swarming with howler monkeys and exquisite hummingbirds, and is the location of the Temple of Inscriptions, where that whole Mayan 2012 prediction thing comes from. We spent an evening in Pacal Votans burial chamber whilst tripping on the local mushrooms, which was an.......experience, to be sure.
Anyway. Central America is where I first experienced 'war', and where i first started to seriously question the harm that 'religeon' (as opposed to 'spirituality') does in the world.
So yeah. GFY.
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"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.