Palenque is the first Mayan city I have visited, so it was amazing. The ruins lying in the middle of the jungle are inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List, but the most spectacular object of the complex is the Temple of the Inscriptions. The sarcophagus of Pakal the Great, the ruler of Palenque in the 7th century, was found there. To my great disappointment, the crypt was inaccessible to tourists and I did not see the famous relief plate depicting Pakal, supposedly inside the spacecraft.