For this trip to Chiapas, I rented a car so I could prowl around more of the Lacandón Jungle and investigate some off-the-beaten paths places that are so time-consuming to research. When a combi passes maybe three times a day, the hours really stack up against you.
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| Cascada de las Golondrinas |
Well, my cheapo rental car got a merciless workout on hours of puddle-splotched and washed out terracería
(dirt roads) as well as countless car-maiming topes (cement speed bumps). It was a horror show. Rocks clinked against the axle. Tall grass grazed the low frame. The shocks screeched and my jaw clenched thinking I heard blowouts.
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| Plan de Ayutla ruins |
The car looked pretty feeble at
the end. The front bumper came loose and a skin of orange mud splattered the undercarriage.
There was no way in hell the rental car folks wouldn’t notice what I’d done to
their stodgy white sedan. But I cleaned it up, had the bumper reattached . . . and returned it with more than 2000 miles tacked onto the odometer. And I smiled a lot.
Dangling howler monkey at Las Guacamayas
Me: ¡Sí, por supuesto!
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| Rock paintings at Laguna Metzabok |
Today I sat in the back seat and let someone else do the driving. Supposedly the road to the Lacandón villages of Metzabok and Nahá was a big bumpy mess, but compared to the muddy up and down drive to the Laguna Miramar embarcadero, it was a magic carpet ride.
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| Lacandón boy overlooking Laguna Metzabok |
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