You will be picked up at your hotel in Palenque in the morningand taken to Villahermosa, the capital of the state of Tabasco. Aguide accompanies you on a visit to Parque-Museo La Venta (admission fee included).
While you tour the grounds, learn about La Venta archaeological site, which was formerly located on an island in a swamp nearthe Gulf of Mexico. Due to the construction of an oil refinery and an airport, largeparts of the site were destroyed, but impressive pre-Columbian pieces found there weremoved to the outdoor La Venta Park Museum established in the 1950s.
See the36 megalithic stone structures that were transported from thearchaeological ruinsand erected here in the park in Villahermosa. After a look at the animals in the zoo and a walking tour ofthe historical center,you will be taken back to your hotel in Palenque.