San Cristobal de las Casas Trip Overview
During the journey you will make a stop where they give you time to have a breakfast (not included), then your first visit will be to the Cascadas de Agua Azul biosphere reserve, where you can walk among the flora and fauna of the region, as well as appreciate the numerous waterfalls that give rise to the formation of natural pools of unequaled beauty, since they have a beautiful color and are surrounded by abundant vegetation. Continue your journey towards the Misol-Há Waterfall and its meaning is “waterfall”, which has a height of approximately 25 meters and that when falling forms a pool. The last point to visit will be the archaeological zone of Palenque, one of the most famous places in Chiapas and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO; Within this site you will be able to know the temples of La Calavera, Reina Roja, El Palacio, etc. At the end you will start the return depending on the city you have chosen, Tuxtla Gutiérrez or San Cristóbal de las Casas.
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Duration: 18 hours
Starts: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
During the journey you will make a stop where they give you time to have a breakfast (not included), then your first visit will be to the Cascadas de Agua Azul biosphere reserve, where you can walk among the flora and fauna of the region, as well as appreciate the numerous waterfalls that give rise to the formation of natural pools of unequaled beauty, since they have a beautiful color and are surrounded by abundant vegetation. Continue your journey towards the Misol-Há Waterfall and its meaning is “waterfall”, which has a height of approximately 25 meters and that when falling forms a pool. The last point to visit will be the archaeological zone of Palenque, one of the most famous places in Chiapas and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO; Within this site you will be able to know the temples of La Calavera, Reina Roja, El Palacio, etc. At the end you will start the return depending on the city you have chosen, Tuxtla Gutiérrez or San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Itinerary
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Stop At: 29950 Ocosingo, Chis., Mexico
The municipality of Ocosingo has a territorial extension of 9,520,117 square kilometers that makes it the largest in the state of Chiapas, it extends through the eastern part of the state to the border with Guatemala on the Usumacinta River and includes a large part of the Jungle Lacandona.
Breakfast (not included) on the way to the Aguz Azul Waterfalls
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Cascadas de Agua Azul, Reserva Especial de la Biosfera Cascadas Agua Azul, Palenque 29920 Mexico
After the pick up, we will travel to the city of Ocosingo to have our buffet or à la carte breakfast at the restaurant “Mi ranchito” (not included), with an approximate time of 50 minutes. Later our destination will be the Agua Azul Waterfalls, time 2 hours to appreciate the incredible turquoise blue color of its waters.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Cascadas de Misol-Ha, Carretera Ocosingo Reserva de la Biósfera Montes Azules, Palenque Mexico
Continuing our tour to Misol-ha where you can see a beautiful waterfall of more than 20 meters high, time 1 hour. At the end of the tour we will take 1 hour for our food (not included) at the restaurant of the same ecotourism center or at the Axkan hotel in Palenque.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Zona Arqueologica de Palenque, Carretera a Palenque- Zona Archaeologica Km. 8, Palenque 29960 Mexico
Palenque was together with Tikal and Calakmul one of the most powerful cities of the Classic Maya, seat of one of the most notable dynasties to which Pakal belongs, whose tomb was discovered in 1952 by the archaeologist Alberto Ruz L’Huillier. Like all Classic Maya cities, Palenque was related to others through commercial exchange networks or alliances between groups of rulers. The territory was organized from the existence of city-states, whose centers have been identified by the presence of the so-called emblem glyph, but the basis of this organization: exchange, alliances and of course war, supposes a constant mobility of it. But the hieroglyphic inscriptions not only offer the identification of the site, they also give an account of the marital and political alliances and the warlike situations between cities. Mayan inscriptions have been widely studied for being one of the first manifestations of writing in Mesoamerica.
Duration: 2 hours
