On Friday, we went to Yumka, a Rainforest Reserve in Villahermosa, Tabasco, and La Venta, a Museum/park with Indigenous ruins and monuments. The nature was incredible, and I got to see animals up close and in the wild.
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| Monkeys! They have WI style raccoons in a cage at the zoo! |
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| He was feeding manatees! They eat vegetables! |
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| Mexican cows. |
From Tabasco we went to Chiapas, to Palenque, a very tourist-oriented rain forest village with hundreds of Pyramids built by ancient Indigenous cultures. They're even older than the Maya civilizations. What I didn't realize is that it was the day to "Receive the Spring," and the park was FULL of people wearing white and climbing the Pyramids to do rituals. It is believed that if you wear white and climb the pyramid on that day, you receive energy from the gods.
We went to 3 different beaches in Tabasco, one which was called "Paraiso" or Paradise. And that it was. We got to see the sun set in one direction while the giant moon rose over the palm trees in the other. It was incredible- doesn't get much better :)
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