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1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - The next morning, with great anticipation, we made our way up a wooded pathway. The fog was just lifting, and we were approaching our first Maya pyramid.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - In all too short of a time, we had to leave Palenque, descending from the Temple of the Cross and crossing this narrow foot bridge over an aqueduct the Mayans had built 1400 years before.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - The Palace cluster took on its present form after any number of architectural modifications over more than 400 years. The cluster is dominated by a four-tier watchtower, inside of which is a stairway to the top.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - The three temples of the Group of the Cross are (left to right) the Temple of the Foliated Cross (built in 672 AD), the Temple of the Cross (built in 692), and the Temple of the Sun (built in 690).
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - In the heart of Palenque, dominating the site, stands the Temple of Inscriptions. The central stairway leads to the top sanctuary composed of five bays.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - One of the carved tablets in a courtyard of the Palace.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - In 1948, the archaeologist Alberto Ruz was investigating four curious stone plugs in the floor of the upper level of the Temple of Inscriptions. He discovered a secret passage filled with rubble. After removing the rubble a hidden stairway was visible. This winding tunnel led to a crypt deep within the interior of the pyramid. Behind a triangular slab door, Ruz made a startling discovery of a wonderful stone chamber enclosing an elaborately carved sarcophagus and the remains of Pacal.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - It was a tight squeeze at the bottom of the once-hidden stairway as visitors tried to get a peak into the burial chamber of Pacal.
1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - Built on a giant trapezoidal platform, the Palace is nearly as long as football field. Steam baths and water distribution installations have been found in this building, something that leads to the idea that it may have actually been a royal dwelling in its time.
PALENQUE, MEXICO - The next morning, with great anticipation, we made our way up a wooded pathway. The fog was just lifting, and we were approaching our first Maya pyramid.

1000places > PALENQUE, MEXICO - The next morning, with great anticipation, we made our way up a wooded pathway. The fog was just lifting, and we were approaching our first Maya pyramid.
PALENQUE, MEXICO - The next morning, with great anticipation, we made our way up a wooded pathway. The fog was just lifting, and we were approaching our first Maya pyramid.

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