BELIZE | Sunday, 26 Nov 2006 | Views [2176]
Caribbean Style After escaping Belize City on a water taxi, we arrived at the safe haven of Caye Caulker. Went to a Lonely Planet recommended hotel - Hotel Miramar- which was right on the beach. Room was nice and the island even nicer. All the buildings ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
BELIZE | Saturday, 25 Nov 2006 | Views [490]
Belize City Arrived late in Belize City and got a cab to an ATM since we had no Belizean currency. The first ATM rejected our cards - uh oh - but luckily the second one we tried worked OK. The hotel we had decided to stay at had been shut down so ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
MEXICO | Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006 | Views [1456]
Tulum Cabaña Fever We arrived in Tulum on Wednesday 22nd November about 11am. From Tulum Town Centre we got a taxi (fixed price, thankfully) to the beach area which extended for about 9 miles and is covered in cabañas and resorts. We got dropped ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
MEXICO | Monday, 20 Nov 2006 | Views [547]
Chasing Ann Arrived at Cancún in the morning following a bus journey with Ann and Ann’s friend and tried to find our hostel on foot. This was a bad idea. Spent ages wandering round in circles on Xel-Ha road, which we could never seem to get off! Eventually ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
MEXICO | Friday, 17 Nov 2006 | Views [705]
My Name is Wendy! Arrived in Valladolid at around 8:30am, having changed buses in Merida with a short 1 hour wait from 5:30am to 6:30am and found a little restaurant so that we could orientate ourselves and eat some more snacks. Got some weird directions ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
MEXICO | Tuesday, 14 Nov 2006 | Views [2114] | Comments [1]
Rakshita´s Revenge We arrived in Palenque on the overnight bus from Mexico City at 8.30 am and, after a cup of coffee that tasted coffee-free (yes that´s coffee not caffeine), caught a ´collectivo´ (a small rickety minibus with doors that didn´t ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
MEXICO | Friday, 10 Nov 2006 | Views [1015]
Metro Mayhem Hola from Mexico! We both arrived safely after a very long flight (11 hours) into Mexico City at 7pm local time (1am our time!). Got picked up at the airport by someone working for Hostel Amigo (where we were staying). Gratefully arrived ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
