Mexico
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Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008 | Views [390]
We leave Dan and Jennie on the plane as they continue to Lima, at Cusco we are very high up 3400 meters above see level. Straight off the plane Colin complains of feeling breathless. We get hassled outside the airport lots of people offering us taxi's ... Read more >
Friday, 10 Oct 2008 | Views [439]
We arrive very late and thankfully have organised our taxi so for the first time we are met at the airport with a man waving our names, thnkfully he has waited for us s we land 2 hours late. We then hacve a very interesting taxi ride, Peruvian taxi ... Read more >
Thursday, 9 Oct 2008 | Views [311]
We fly from Cancun, Mexico, to Miami, USA, where we have to collect our luggage and go through US customs even though we aren´t leaving the airport, we even have to fill in all the forms. The airport is then closed due to an electrical storm passing ... Read more >
Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [386]
Again we get a 2nd class bus to Cancun staright from the ruins, we catch the bus at 2.30pm ns it didn´t arrive until 9pmish, joys of the 2nd class bus and no toilet. We couldn´t find the hostel we planned on staying in, but thnkfully there are loads ... Read more >
Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [363]
We take our first 2nd class bus to Chichen Itza ruins, the bus certainly isn´t as nice as the first class, but more interesting as locals can flag it down at any point, so it stops all the time and it stops for street sellers, who flag down the bus and ... Read more >
Saturday, 4 Oct 2008 | Views [348]
Merida is an unexpected stop, we had hoped to get the connecting bus from Palenque to Chichen Itza, but we arrived in Merida hours after the last bus to Chicken Itza had left. The bus ride to Merida was great flat roads from the jungle into the city ... Read more >
Wednesday, 1 Oct 2008 | Views [365]
It took the most horrendous bus drive to get here, we had to get the night bus from Oaxaca to Saint Christabo, which took 11.5 hours and I was sick or felt sick for the entire journey and you don´t get to stop. It was awful. We get into Saint Christabo ... Read more >
Sunday, 28 Sep 2008 | Views [347]
Got the bus from Puebla to Oaxaca, much longer ride, but beautiful went though the desert into high desert mountains, saw two eagls soaring, a fabtastic sight. Oaxaca is smaller than Puebla, still has a little square that is the centre of life, we spend ... Read more >
Sunday, 28 Sep 2008 | Views [440] | Comments [2]
Our stories so far have been rather bland and so we thought we would tell you about the hostels, which have been a bit more interesting Montreal - Canada Our first night we land and arrive at the hostel and we aren´t in the main hostel but in a building ... Read more >
Friday, 26 Sep 2008 | Views [328]
Got the bus from Mexico city to Puebla, nice to see the desert and leave a big city behind, bus was easy to use. Puebla is a beautiful little town with beautiful 16th century baroque building. It has a lovely little square where everyone seems to ... Read more >
Friday, 26 Sep 2008 | Views [741] | Comments [1]
In Mexico, it is beautiful, amazing old architecture. We have spent a day looking round the city and went to the black market which was an eye opener, we got a bit lost, but we made it back OK. There are so many beautiful, churches here in the city. ... Read more >
Wednesday, 24 Sep 2008 | Views [425]
Arrived in Mexico yesterday , we had to leave Los Angeles at 6 in the morning to get the flight to Mexico City - First flight was to Dallas as they did not do a direct flight then off the first plane at Dallas Airport for half an hour then on another ... Read more >
