Villahermosa

We finally had our first week long vacation! We all decided to head south and do some sightseeing in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas. Both of the states are full of rain forests, indigenous people, and Mayan ruins!

The first stop on our journey was Villahermosa. We left Tehuacan on Thursday evening right after getting done teaching and arrived in Villahermosa at 5 am. The only problem with that is that our hostel for that night wasn´t in Villahermosa and so we just had too be bums at a random park by a large river there for a few hours until everything opened up. As you can see from the pic below I made quite the good bum with my makeshift bed.


After bumming it at a park for a couple of hours, we headed over to a giant park that Villahermosa is famous for. The front of the park was a zoo and then the back of it was a trail through dense rainforest that had ancient Olmec sculptures scattered throughout it. This one below is the most famous of all of them and so Becca and I tried to do our best imitation of it--we will have to work on it some more though!

Here´s a bunch of the girls trying to mimic one of the other sculptures. Don´t they all look great!


There is also a temple in Villahermosa and so we were able to go to it before heading out for the day. The temples down here are pretty small but really a sight to behold and very beautiful inside.