In March of 2004, I had the opportunity to take an adventurous trip down a 120km stretch of the Usumacinta River, a very dramatic river - the border between Mexico and Guatemala. A more complete "travelogue" can be found on my personal website at
http://www.billlieberman.com/usu-rivertripSome of the highlights included visiting incredible archaeological sites both in Palenque,Chiapas on directly on the river. It took eleven of us about nine days of floating and lazing down the river to travel the seventy some-odd miles.
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Put in point
This is where we put in for our trip down the Rio Usumacinta. The...
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First View of Yaxchilan
About a half a day's journey downriver from the put-in point by...
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Morning on the River
the trips down the river usually happen in March when the climate is...
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Entrance to Piedras Negras
This is prehaps the most remote, largely unexcavated site and most...
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The Falls at Busilja #1
The river Busilja, on its journey down from the surrounding mountains,...
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the Falls at Busilja #2
This is the view of the falls as we paddled by. It's hard to tell...
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Rio Chacala
this is the confluence of yet another river with the Usumacinta. Clear and...
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Canyon of San Jose
This is a gorge the river cut through a mountain range in prehistory....
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Take-Out Point: End of Trip
We took-out at a town in the Mexican State of Tabasco called...
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