El Rancho Perla Negra
Travel Blogs from Manzanillo
More Colima discomforts
We return to Colima, visit a folk museum with giant puppets and masks, and Soph looses her temper with the neighbours in the hotel this time - booting the wall to shut them up! We try Bate a gritty blend of tea and mucus (it seems) served with syrup and a straw... needless to say we dont finish our cup.
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Hotel disasters
We somehow managed to collect a series of hotel traumas here in this hot and sticky city. The first hotel has child-decorated door numbers, but thats the only thing appealing about it. There's lots of noise, much of it strange, which seems to be becoming a theme in Mexico..! We try to upgrade and ...
Boca de Apiza et San Juan Aliman
Notre road-trip le long des cotes de l'Etat du Michoacan, sur la cote pacifique, commence par l'embouchure du fleuve Apiza, sur la plage de Boca de Apiza.
L'endroit impressione par les centaines d'oiseaux qui s'y trouvent: pélicans, cormorans, hérons, sternes, etc. Le seul hotel du petit village a été abandonné, et il n'y a pas moyen ...
Colima et ses villages environnants
Nous arrivons tot le matin a Colima apres 9h30 de bus de nuit. La ville est tres calme et reposante, plutot petite en comparaison aux autres villes Mexicaines (Colima etant aussi l'un des plus petits etats du pays).
Nous visitons aussi des petits villages proches:
- Comala, qui est connu pour etre le lieu de l'action du livre "Pedro Paramo" de Juan Rulfo. C'est un village tout blanc, avec ...
Manzanillo, Mexico
... from Colima and he said he didn’t blame the tourists for not visiting because there is so much manipulation of the policia and the government with the drug lords that it is just not safe. I don’t know whether I felt more safe that the military followed us all day or more leery?? Today was culture shock for me.
We had time to do some shopping at a corner store before getting back on the bus and I bought some vanilla. I had researched what ...