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Again it was a slides and drops heaven
with a great final drop out into the easier section of a

9-10m waterfall
We now had a couple of kilometres of flat
before the big five. These are five drops from
35-50 footers and the last one dropping into
the River Shumulja. You either portage the
whole lot or do what you are happy with.
However after inspecting them it would have
been too much of a faff to run some and
portage the rest due to the steep cliffs either
side, so we walked the whole lot and put into
the Shumulja, the paddle out which is an easy
run of 10km with one rapid grade 4+. With a
long day over it was time to head back to
Palenque for our final night of steak, tequilas
and beers. A visit to some Mayan ruins the next
day at Chichen-itza (very impressive) on our
way back to Cancun completed our time in
Central America.

Schwendinger and Neils Saubes for their energy, hard work
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