We have done a relatively short ride of 330km today to a town called Coatzacoalcos. This is not a town that we would ordinarily head to as there is nothing there because its an industrial town on the Caribbean coast however, because of the heat it is not desirable to be doing distances of greater than 400km in any one day and to get to anywhere on our route that is more akin to what we usually look for would have required an additional 300km and so Coatzacoalcos it is. That said, we have struck it lucky with a hotel right on the seafront and we have a beautiful room looking out over the ocean.
Our Days ride…
The ride from San Cristobal brought us down from an altitude of 2200m back to the coastal plain where the temps rocket into the high 30’s and the resulting change of mountainous, forested scenery to one of lush, humid jungle.
Pete Davies suggested that I put pics of all of the Mayan ruins we have seen thus far alongside one another to show the differences which I though was a good idea as it shows the cultural differences of this enigmatic and vastly spread out civilisation…
