Mexico
Travel Blogs from Mexico
Cheap and quaint
... smile. We crossed a couple of great bridges and rode along the coast awhile before finally settling in Hotel San Martin in Veracruz, Mexico, just around the corner from the beach. This hotel had character, at $34US per night, what else could it ...
Hasta la Vista, Merida
And so the journey home begins. Bye bye Merida. What a beautiful town and a beautiful country. I hope that I will be back one day soon. Hasta la Vista, ...
Border Book Festival
... to know each other. The Friends of the Women of Juarez provided info and projects to counteract the killing of women for sport in Mexico. I hope to visit Centro Santa Catalina in Juarez (tho I won't get that done this round of B.E.ing); so, we chatted at ...
Southern Mexico
... city and probably the first place we would recommend to someone looking to get away from the beach/resort towns and experience colonial Mexico. It is a solidly middle-class city - in some neighborhoods, it could be mistaken for a suburb of LA - with ...
Tips? Dont you know were Northern mate?
After a great nights sleep I woke up full of enthusiasm for a day by the pool, relaxing and soaking up some sun, its a strange feeling being this close to going home and one that is very difficult to describe, I suspect Rorie and Emer are the only people ...
A grand finale to Mexico
Sunday morning we headed into the mountains to visit a small indiginous village to see the local market. San Juan de Chamula is a neat little town nestled in the mountains. The local people are traditional Mayans, most were wearing traditional cloths and ...
Making miles
... rode ahead of us on their motorbikes for about 5 kilometers, to get us on the right track towards the highway to Campeche, Mexico. After a very hot and tiring day, travelling 476 kilometers, we settled into a Hotel called U Xul Kah, which had a Mayan ...
Spelunking
I woke up at 8AM and visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park. On the drive in I saw a giant tarantula crossing the road. When I arrived at the park I hiked a mile down into the cave to a depth of 750 feet below the surface. It was great ...
Lagoon-a Beach
We both fell in love with Barra, a beautiful place with a lagoon and then just over a small walkway to the beach. A tiny relaxed little town, where the bus station doesnt even have a sign! The bus stopped again, people got off, we saw no signs and so ...
Finding our travel groove in Isla Mujeres
... and came away with free gambling vouchers and show tickets. Surely we can convince them we live together (without proof of it) in Mexico. Turns out the standards are a little stricter than in Vegas... After a ferry ride and 45 minute taxi ride courtesy of ...
beach, ruins, fish....sweet
rancho tranquilo: - one of the best places we have stayed; well run, great crew, clean/big kitchen, industrial bbq, sitting areas, etc, etc.. - not cheap however (this is the yuctan penninsula), had a nice little cabana (hut), stayed pretty cool, ...
Something more than terror
There's something more than rage, there's something more than sadness, there's something more than terror there's hope. (from Casa Amiga poster) Casa Amiga, a rape crisis center, actually is a positive biproduct of the Juarez femicides. Founded in ...
Chichen Itza - Mayan Ruins
We had some hanging around at the bus stations along the way, but by late afternoon we were dropped off in the tiny town of Piste - the nearest settlement to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. We struggled with our packs as we walked the length of the ...
Prickly pear and pineapples
... to follow the Zumo GPS map, and finally edged our way out of town towards Altamira. We were still 'South of the border, down Mexico way’ but making our way up to Brownsville, Texas. The riding was fast on good roads. However, the roads had a wide ...
just a quicky
last stop Last stop (pretty sad and exciting at the same time) one of the first times we booked a place to stay; hotel juarez came up with the goods, cheap, great central location, clean and friendly staff. Feeling a bit crumby on arrival, ...
Back to the Island
Well, the best plan for traveling like this is to not have a plan ... which suits me fine. Isla Mujeres is so cool, I decided to go back and stay there a couple nights instead of heading to Tulum. The hostel is really cool here and you meet people from ...
Mayan Ruins
Today we explored the Mayan ruins of Tulum. They are perched right on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean sea and are most impressive. The people who lived here also had their own beach so I went for swim in the warm clear water while looking up at ...
Who are Desert Humanitarians? How can I be one?
A loosely-associated group of compassionate people, seeing the needs of the poor in Mexico, banded together under the name "Desert Humanitarians." They got a grant, rented a storefront in Palomas (the Migrant Resource Center), and provide a simple, free ...
Back to School in Guanajuato
... ) is almost in the dead centre of Mexico, about a 5-hour drive east from Guadalajara, and about 4 hours northwest of Mexico City. The historic centre of the city is located in a little valley and many of the residential neighborhoods, including where ...
Most random day in mexico City....
... then we decided to go for lunch to this vegetarian restaurant, as neither of us had had a vegetable in days. Wow....now Mexico has a weird idea of what vegetarian food is. Possibly the most revolting thing I've eaten in a while....some green ...
Episode 10: The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
... one of my career travel highlights. Every year, an estimated 150-300 million Monarch butterflies return to Central Mexico from their northern migration to the U.S. and Canada. It is one of the longest and most spectacular ...
Teotihuacan - Pyramids and Ruins
... really good to simply be able to relax in comfortable surroundings. We had a meal in town and then came back and watched Mexico v Costa Rica in the Olympic prelims of CONCACAF - well Dan watched it, I fell asleep well before full time! The ...
Stalking New Mexico's wild petroglyphs
Our friends led us on an expedition to some Bureau of Land Management acreage called Pony Hills, located northwest of Deming, NM where we set off in quest of petroglyphs. They were so abundant--and fascinating--that we went straight back to the town's ...
Chichen Izta and Chicken Buses Part 1
... americans arrived from cancun or playa del carmen. Most of them a real embrashment to themselves, obese blokes in wife beaters and somberos with viva mexico on. Shame they spoil it for the rest of us!!! After a quick shower I started on my ...
The most beautiful place I have ever been
We left Caye Caulker on a speed boat at 7am and then took I small plane on a short journey up to Corozal and then onto Tulum by bus. Everyone I had met while travelling around had raved about Tulum, but the place excided our expectations. The place is ...
Possibly the worst road in Mexico.....
Well, I think I found the worst road in Mexico. It was the one that our overnight bus was on last night from Mexico City to Puerto Escondido. The night started off fine...the bus was half empty, and all seemed well. Then around 11 I was woken up by some ...
Chihuahua
... station a few kilometres outside of the city, we embarked on a break-neck local bus journey into the centre. Traffic here in Mexico is absolutely crazy - no-one/everyone seems to have the right of way and horns are constantly blaring. Each time we stopped ...
Merida and Uxmal
... your car and you’re found to be over the limit, then all bets are off and you’re not covered by insurance. In Mexico, you can buy insurance that covers you if you’re drunk. True story. A quick apology: I'm sorry if the titles for the ...
