As our previous post said, we left San Cristobal and headed to Ocosingo. We expected this to be an 88km ride.....it turned out to be 97km of serious mountainside, hills and incredible views. It took us all day and we were exhausted, but we made it.
The following day we were back on the bikes and started off towards Agua Azul, a 67 km ride. Cassie woke up feeling under the weather but wanted to push on.....push on she did (literally)- up most of the hills when she wasn't buckled over with exhaustion. This was an extremely hard day for both of us and pushed us mentally and physically. We did make it however and Agua Azul was beautiful. We had planned to ride again from Agua Azul to Palenque however, due to both of our exhausted states we decided to take a bus. We approached a French tour group leader about dropping us to Palenque, he was more than happy to take us and the bikes and when we boarded the bus the group applauded us and welcomed us with open arms - for free!
From Palenque we took an overnight bus to Chetumal, on the Mexico-Belize border, and stayed for the night. After meeting an awesome guy who owned the hotel, we recovered and renewed our energy to go to Belize the next day.
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| The start of our uphill journey. |
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| Cruising downhill the only good part of hill climbing. |
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| Nearly there... |
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| We made it- 97 km! |
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| A misty start to part 2 of the journey. |
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| Cassie wasn't feeling very well at all- at this point she was trying to flag down pick up trucks to take her up the hill. |
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| We made it to beautiful Agua Azul. |
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| Cooling off. |
these are awesome pictures... I have serious waterfall jealousy right now. And that tat is epic, Cam!
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