Three jungle waterfalls - Palenque part 2

The United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) has 32 states. Chiapas is the most amazing one I've been to so far. Maybe it's my affinity with, and love for, the jungle - who knows. On day 1 in Palenque I visited two waterfalls (cascadas) - Misol-Ha and Agua Azul. On day 2 I visited a third - Roberto Barrios. On day 1 my friend for the day was Jenny, a gorgeous and funny individual from Puebla. I loved chatting to her for hours on end in Spanish, comparing our two cultures and traditions. We've swapped numbers, went for dinner the following evening and she's promised to visit Europe... Jenny si leyes este blog, ¡tendrás que cumplir la promesa!

MISOL-HA

This waterfall was different from the other two in that it had height and was one singular main waterfall. We walked behind it and explored a cave that was full of bats! They were flying all around the place - luckily I've been to Chester Zoo so I was prepared and unafraid (!)

I managed to swim for a short 15min in this waterfall, the day was so hot and the jungle so humid I was glad for the cool water.

AGUA AZUL

This one is the famous one. It has around 6 or 7 different waterfalls but you can't go anywhere near them - only to designated photo lookout spots (à la Niagara Falls etc).

Jenny and I swam in two parts - in a pool at the top and at the bottom. Remember back in the day when you used to go to the shopping centre and they had those fish tanks to clean your feet with the hundreds of fish? The water was like that! Only around a 2 foot deep and I had around 15 fish nibbling on each foot at a time! It was really weird so eventually I had to get out. We were lucky that we had "Agua Azul" (blue water) - it's named for its bright blue colour - and not "Agua de Café" (coffee water!) as it can sometimes locally be known if it's rained a lot and the water turnd a muddy brown!

ROBERTO BARRIOS

This one was by FAR my favourite. Like Agua Azul, there were around 5 or 6 series of waterfalls, each with a pool at the bottom leading to the next. The difference here was that you could climb over the waterfall rocks, swim everywhere, and also just lie in the shallows of the pool on the top of each set of waterfalls. My friend for the day was Simon from Germany (who lives in the same city I used to live in for Erasmus so we had a good old chat in Deutsch for the day).

I was very sad to leave the state of Chiapas but excited to see what Campeche and Yucatan states have to offer!