Holiday Inn Chetumal, Q, Roo, Mx

... a million people were crowded together waiting for some light show. It took 20 minutes for us to fight our way accross the square to the restaurant we were going to for dinner. When we got to the restaurant, I noticed it was right next door to the next tube stop down the line. Hmmm. Diego then went to great lengths to explain the difference between a tour leader (which he is) and a tour guide. Basically, a tour guide knows some useful information and a tour leader doesn´t. <br><br>Our ...

... city to the apartment where he, his sister, and mother live. After a snack of chocolate rice cakes, we crashed hard (for the second time that night). <br> The next day brought a savage, and wonderful, adventure. After scarfing some finger-licking, sugar-coated pan de los Muertos (kind of like angel food cake but more bready and delicious), we hopped in Kisiev`s car and drove two hours, past barrios creeping up hills, roadside vendors (by which I ...

Se all'andata ci siamo concessi un hotel con qualche stella, per la fase finale siamo approtadi ad un ostello.<br>Il letto è piccolo, una piazza e mezza stringata, ma il lenzuolo è ancora più piccolo! Un francobollo di cotone. Ci organizziamo dividendoci lenzuolo e coperta, almeno riusciamo a coprirci.<br>Oggi pomeriggio la piazza è piena di gente per i festeggiamenti del giorno dei morti, ci sono gli indios che fanno le loro danze rituali davanti ad altari decorati; molti ...

... youth population, poor cultural interest... obviously not a tourist destination.<br>Yet I stayed a whole day, because the next bus to palenque was around 11pm.<br>I thought of going on a day trip to Belize City, I had time, but this would requiert 10h of bus in 1day and withdraw Belizean dollars just for 1 day (my bank is not happy with the "small amount" of pesos I withdraw for 20 days in mexico, so ...

... at theappointed time and we were off. A fairly uneventful 6 hour bus journey later with only two 5 minute stops. One in Felipe Carrillo Puerto and one in Playa, we were in Cancun. The story continues.

... out some great places to go in Guatemala.   We were surprised by the coziness of the bathrooms ...see picture. After lunch, we had a long drive across the long flat plains and passed by a Pemex where we did not see the Frenchies filling up, but we later wished we had stopped - it was about a hundred miles later and we had not seen another gas station again - and the Buell was the first to stop running.  Meric understood and ...

... bit more challenging. For one, every country you usually enter wants to see proof that you are, in fact leaving. Since I am not traveling via a "regular" way, I cannot provide that. I have not onward ticket to anywhere. So seeing how they react to this at each border will be interesting. Hopefully I have enough plastic with me to impress them into believing I am not indigent and won`t be sucking off of their already depleted resources ...

... it is mostly not to warm in Mexico city cause it is high up in the mountains and in a valley.. so I crossed my fingers that Puerto would be warmer.. we had to wait 4 hours at the airport for our bus to Puerto to arrive but time went fast talking to all then new people ...

... is so corrupted, that it is a real problem that stops then from truly emerging as a whole. For years politicians have promessed to fix the problem without success. I knew this for a fact beforehand, however I did not know how bad it was. Mexican have a saying: "If you can get away with it, its fine". Now that was my guide;s opinion anyway, talking about her countrymen. I have met so many nice people there, I cannot believe everybody think this ...

... realized I sounded like all the tourists I despised in Cancun. I just wanted to hole myself in the room and not leave until morning when I'd head out to Belize. I wasn't dealing and tolerating the challenges thrown at me. I thought the whole adventure was about not having structure and just going with the flow. Yucatan? You can too! Eventually I headed off because I got hungry and was hoping something good could come out of Chetumal.