Palenque is a neat, less natural place than Tikal. You stroll through the former big city on accurate promenades between green areas of cultivated lawn. However the surrounding ruins are fantastic, and sometimes you are allowed to enter their creepy and dark interior.
Take also a closer look on well remained reliefs. Background information are provided by tour guides which show up every ten minutes. Choose your stand next to the audience, and pretend to take pictures, so no one will bother you.
At one of these occasions we heard that over 2000 years ago the Maya actually belonged to the Stone Age. They knew little about the wheel and nothing about iron, so they had to use tools made of wood, stone, bone and plants. With this knowledge in mind the achievements in arts, architecture and astronomy are extraordinary.
And did you know that the Maya invented public advertisement?
You are invited to guess what kind of advertisement is shown on the last picture.
The answer is revealed by reading the following words in reverse direction: NOITOL KCOLBNUS
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