This town does not wake up till late like after 9 am. Here I was wandering the streets around 8 am looking for breakfast. Where were the early bird locals eating at? Found some in a place right on the Zocalo. So into Café Con Rostro Humano for some healthy Natural Frutas con youghurt y granola for 60 pesos / NZ $ 5.60 / US $ 4.60. Well it was a dinner plate size of fresh fruit! That plus the toast, coffee and fruit juice ….
 
So with a 11.30 am departure from the hotel and to me there was no point to wander more of the same streets again as it was still quiet being a Sunday as well, had time to finally publish the first 24 entries of the trip from Mexico City till now. That felt great.
 
Being forewarned about the forthcoming windy bus trip took 2 Sea Legs tablets that I had left over from my Antarctica trip and put on both my wrist bands simply as a precaution.
 
A 10 minute walk back to the bus terminal wheeling our bags over the narrow cobbled stone pavement. Next time I need bags with larger all terrain wheels. My Samsonite bag with its small wheels is fine and so far holding up after all these trips. 
 
The bus left at 12.15 pm and “yes” the road was windy all the way to Palenque, just over 200 kilometres away, where we arrived some 5 ½ hours later with a 30 minute break in the middle of the trip at Ocosingo.
 
Being one of the potential motion / car “sickies” had a seat right up the front and that certainly helped. It was a slow trip partly because of the constant judder bars or speed humps through the villages and towns that we had to pass through. One way to keep the speed down!

It was now dusk as we walked the few blocks to the hotel and checked in. It felt like a “rough” town. So far this is the worst hotel but hey it is only for 2 short nights. Some others commented on the worst condition that what I had so I was lucky in some ways.
 
Dinner was at Tropitacos. No, I did not have tacos but instead chose Zarapo which is chuleta (chop), chorizo (sausage), bisteak (besteak), tocino (bacon), morron (pepper), cebolla (onion), jitomate (tomatoes)and queso (cheese). Washed down with a tall glass of papaya juice and that set me back 110 pesos / $10.20 / US $ 8.40.