MEXICO | Monday, 23 Nov 2009 | Views [17]
We took the night bus to Oaxaca – an 11 hour journey down into the arid plains and up again into the mountains. This was our first taste of the massive scale of Mexico – it’s a big country! It was also our first taste of near ubiquitous cactus desert, ... Read more >
Tags: oaxaca, semana santa, mitla, monte alban, santa maria del tule, teotitlan del valle
MEXICO | Monday, 21 Sep 2009 | Views [81]
After the long drives around rural Chiapas, we were glad to get back to San Cristobal and spend a week or so just bumming around. There are worse places to bum, and it seemed that quite a few fellow europeans had chosen the same place to hang out ... Read more >
Tags: san cristobal, chamula, zincantan, canon sumidero
MEXICO | Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009 | Views [155]
We booked a micro bus to take us out of Guatemala. We suffered a rather large wait for a connecting bus at Quattro Caminos, which caused a rather large Italian fellow traveller to go into an angry tirade with the new bus driver in good Italian fashion.... Read more >
Tags: palenque, chiapas, lacandon, yaxchilan, bonampak
GUATEMALA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2009 | Views [178]
After surviving our chicken bus challenges (I now see why most tourists travel by private microbus in Guatemala – its still pretty manic, but its this side of hair-raising) we arrived in Quetzaltenango, or Xela (pronounced ´Shela´) in Quiché Mayan.... Read more >
Tags: xela, quetzaltenango, fuertas georginas, mayan stove project
GUATEMALA | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Views [289]
Missing the direct bus from Chichicastenango to Quetzaltenango (Xela), in the west of the country, we instead got a chicken bus to the junction with the InterAmericana at Los Encuentros. We were ushered onto a chicken bus by the youthful, ... Read more >
Tags: mad guatemalan bus drivers, near death experiences
GUATEMALA | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Views [87]
After surviving Pacaya, we booked a tourist microvan to Panajachel on the shores of Lago Atitlan. A thankfully uneventful journey, although I did marvel at the way that the Guatamalans appeared to be in the process of blasting away a good proportion ... Read more >
Tags: lago atitlan, san marcos, panajachel, san pedro, chichicastenango
MEXICO | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 | Views [126]
Observant readers may remember that back in Panama,we went on a tour of a specialist coffee producer on the slopes of Volcan Baru . The blurb on the tour said ´ warning you may become a coffee snob ´. Unlikely, I thought – I´ve been ... Read more >
Tags: finding a decent coffee in central america
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 | Views [246]
Another tourist micro bus, another long journey south to Antigua. This time the bad road bit was at the start, so we were able to enjoy the fantastic views whilst not minding the banging around. Our driver was of the ´there´s no speed except ... Read more >
Tags: antigua, volcan pacaya, colonial architechture, bad trades
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [239]
We left Chetumal and got a long-distance bus going straight to Flores, Guatemala. This involved heading down through northern Belize again to Belize City, and then across to San Ignacio and over the border. We drove through the Peten basin ... Read more >
Tags: tikal, flores, suicide dogs, languin, semuc champey
MEXICO | Saturday, 28 Feb 2009 | Views [461]
Everything
was set for our rendezvous with my parents on 2 nd February: our
accommodation was booked for the following 2 weeks and we had even hired a car.
Our itinerary went something like this: bumming on the beach in Puerto ... Read more >
Tags: driving, luggage, cenotes, beaches, ruins, merida, dogs, parents, coba, tulum
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