Mexico
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Monday, 23 Nov 2009 | Views [14]
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
Monday, 21 Sep 2009 | Views [80]
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
Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009 | Views [154]
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
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
Saturday, 28 Feb 2009 | Views [455]
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
Friday, 20 Feb 2009 | Views [148]
After Belize our first stop was the border town of Chetumal. Well more of a city really, a huge urban sprawl, like everywhere else we’ve since seen in Mexico. On the plus side, the roads were good, accommodation was cheap, we found a good café, an ... Read more >
Tags: shopping, food, people, diving, chetumal, playa del carmen, cozumel
