Tapachula, Mexico Travel Blogs

Tapachula
Oct 6, 2007

Tapachula.

End of Mexico
May 7, 2009

... bus station in tonalá to catch our last bus, which of course by now could only be Gran Lujo, to Tapachula right next to the border between Guatemala and Mexico. From here we would make our separate ways, elena and i into guatemala and alex and said would ...

Tapachula
Nov 30, 2008

... little to see, the only benefit of the place is that its on the Guatemalan border. If you HAVE to go to Tapachula (TicaBus run only from here in Mexico) then do NOT stay in the hotel villa del sol. Its very expensive for what it is, the rooms are dirty, ...

Day 21 - Huatulco to Tapachula Mexico
Oct 16, 2007 (5 photos)

... about 5 hours.  Well, at least that cooled us off.  Gotta watch what you ask for.  When we arrived at Tapachula, Leo caught a glimpse of a motorcycle at a hotel ($20/night with personal garage).  We pulled in and were greeted by fellow ...

Feiring i Tapachula
May 17, 2006 (7 photos)

I dag skal vi feire med poelser, is og brus! Hip hip hurra!

Jul og nyttaar paa en og samme dag!
May 13, 2006 (13 photos)

... Misión México, noe som har gitt nytt haap for aa faa papirene gjennom, da han viste seg aa vaere den rikeste mannen i Tapachula. Vi har fingrene krysset. Barna snakker god engelsk i forhold til de andre barna paa sin alder. Pam og Alan jobber naa med en ...

Vaar tid i Tapachula
May 16, 2006 (12 photos)

Ja saa gaar tiden i Tapachula mot slutten. Her er bilder fra ting vi har gjort!

Misión México!
Apr 20, 2006 (12 photos)

Hei alle sammen! Naa er vi paa barnehjemmet Misión México i Tapachula, soer i landet. 31 alldeles herlige unger er overalt til alle doegnets tider, vi danser, tegner, synger og leker. Denne uka er det ferie, men ettersom de er barnehjemsbarn, kreves det mer ...

Pics of the children
Apr 26, 2006 (19 photos)

Adorable adorable!

Tapachula
Mar 19, 2007

Tapachula, skeeetchy border crossing! Drug smuggling capital of central america i´m sure... terribly boring uneventful night...

Overnight Bus to Oaxaca
Jul 4, 2007 (4 photos)

... days thinking that was the maximum and Paula came back with 180 days, I hope it doesn't cause me problems later. Caught microbus to Tapachula and went for some munchie, then did some more of the blog, which you will probably see in August by the time we ...

Arrivée au Mexique
Jun 29, 2005 (7 photos)

15 minutes après le décollage nous voilà au Costa Rica. Puis le Nicaragua, le Salvador et le Guatemala. Malgré des prévisions météo pessimistes le vol se déroule sans histoire. Notre arrivée au Mexique est un évènement. Jamais je n'ai eu un tel comité. Quatre ...

Sooo tired
Mar 5, 2009 (1 photos)

It was a tiring day of riding. Thats all I can remember.

Leaving Oaxaca
Nov 26, 2008

... signs of an activist political nature. Oaxaca and Chiapas are two of the really militant states in Mexico.  We arrived at the bus station in Tapachula (the Mexican town bordering Guatemala), about 12:30 p.m. - over three hours later than scheduled - ...

On the run.
Aug 2, 2008

Wake up (or at least shake myself out of the half doze) after a long ride on the overnight bus from San Cristobal to find myself arriving and my connecting bus leaving. I leap in a combi and shout follow "FOLLOW THAT BUS!" like in the movies. The combi ...

Tapachula
Oct 5, 2008

... decide we had the same plans (with a Spanish speaking chaperon, Xela was far easier/preferable to Guatemala City) and headed into Tapachula itself to find a cheap hotel. Hospodej Santa Fe it was, at M280 for an en-suite air conditioned twin. We spent the ...

Tapachula
Aug 13, 2008

... for some lunch, before heading onwards to Mexico in the afternoon. After some checks at Mexican customs we were in Mexico and heading to Tapachula, just across the border. When we got to Tapachula we booked into the hotel next to the station and as the ...

A new town, a new friend
Dec 12, 2008

... ;career and lifestyle. We met while getting on the bus in San Salvador and after the long bus ride, hung out in Tapachula at a restaurant across from the bus station with him for a few hours before his bus left. Good food, good beers and good ...

Nearing the Border
Oct 18, 2007

To see the sign is one thing but to actually drive into Tapachula and realize the Guatemala border is just a few miles away was GREAT!

Misión México
Apr 24, 2006

Hey People! WE were told we shouldn't put our bank account number on the site but if you want to you can now donate money through travelpod. Click the button up in the right corner! Thanks Aaron, looking forward to dancing again;)

First Chicken Bus Adventure
Aug 8, 2007 (19 photos)

About 5km from Xela along the sides of a steep-sided , flat valley lies the town Almolonga. This area is responsible for growing the majority of vegtables in Guatemala and for a fair bit that is exported throughout Central America and to southern states ...

Mexico
Sep 8, 2007

Arrived in the border town late, raining hard and the streets full of people - a fiesta going on - but only 30 miles from the Guatemala border in the morning.

Tapachula
Jun 14, 2007

Hola a todos! Despues de un viaje de 7 horas en el cual mas de la mitad son puras curvas llegue a Tapachula de Comitan. Y bueno despues de estar ya un mes en San Cristobal en donde hace bastastante frio, hoy llego al calor y en fin, aqui estoy y mañana ...

Last Week in Xela
Aug 16, 2008

... and fighting going on between the dogs so instead of a hunting party I may have come across  two rival dog gangs engaged in a turf war.... I am off to Mexico this week for a little vacation before we head off to Honduras. take all, love, Dan

day 10- Acayun to Tapachula
Jul 5, 2007

... way-- so far, no problems finding bathrooms either.    We found the Loma Real (an upper-scale hotel overlooking Tapachula) and decided to spend the night. Very large, comfortable, attractive room and bath, plenty of security (also, it's outside ...

Tapachula
Apr 15, 2006 (10 photos)

TApachula

Crossing the Border Mexico/Guatemala
Aug 28, 2009

Depois de 3 horas de viagem cheguei na entrada da cidade de Tapachula. Tive que passas por uma cancela da immigracao Mexicana onde duas pessoas vestidas com uniformes de oficiais da immigracao me pediram para parar. Mostrei meus docmentos e um deles me ...

Heading to Tapachula
Mar 28, 2006

... had otherwise. The vegetarian pizza had pig on it. Hotel San Francisco is very cute, with 2 courtyards and brightly painted. Tapachula Our new home for 2 months, helping out at a refuge for children called Mision Mexico (www.lovelifehope.com). There ...

Mexico
Sep 9, 2007

It was only 30 miles to the border, but by the time we missed the police office where you need to get the driving permit cancelled, who are not at the border, and returned, we had done closer to 80 miles.  It took a couple of hours there to persuade ...

Tapachula
Mar 12, 2008

Hola a todos! Despues de muchas horas y 3 fronteras me encuentro en cansado pero feliz de estar en mi querido pais!