TOURIST SERVICES

If you?re traveling by car, Highway 199 links Palenque to Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital, and San Cristobal de las Casas. To arrive at Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco, you can take the same highway or Highway 186. By train, there?s a new route that connects Palenque to Cordoba, Veracruz, and to Merida, Yucatan. The Pakal-Na train station is just 1.5 km (1 mi) from Palenque. By air, the Palenque airport receives commercial flights from Aerocaribe, as well as charter flights from the cities of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Ocosingo and Comitan de Dominguez. If you want to travel to other destinations in Mexico, you?ll have to fly out of the airports in Tuxtla Gutierrez and San Cristobal de las Casas, which have flights from such carriers as Mexicana, Aviacsa, Aeromar and Aerocaribe.

Palenque International Airport ? Located at Km 24.5 off the Catazaja-Rancho Nuevo Highway. Tel. (916) 345-1581

Palenque Bus Terminal ? Located on Av. Juarez, at Jorge de la Vega. Tel. (916) 345-1344

EMERGENCY NUMBERS AND INFORMATION

Tourism Office ? Tel. (916) 345-0356

Emergencies ? Tel. 060

Emergency Highway Road Service ? Tel. 078