Holiday Inn Express Saltillo Zona Aeropuerto

The first entry. Voila. I have successfully logged onto the internet after 4 days out of contact with the outside world. Or at least the world outside of DF, Mexico. Nemo and I arrived on time, made our way to the Metro, and were picked up at La Raza by our host, Alejandro AKA Doc. We went straight to train with his capoeira group here, where we had our first ...

... from the highest climbable vantage point, (picture above) from where you could view the - avenue of the dead and the various palaces leading up to the temple of the sun (the 3rd biggest pyramid in the world) - below view of temple of the moon and the avenue of the dead I climbed both of them twice as i needed the bit of exercise ...

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... africas (where we'd been the night before) so we went next door into retro - what i mistaka to maker! it was a seedy, almost church hall sort of place full of very very drunk mexicans with a bad mexican band playing bryan adams covers! it was like we'd walked into from dusk til dawn and had sat down for a beer in the titty twister! we drank up asap and legged it, having to go back in for rob who'd been accosted as the door we found a bar just 2 doors up from our ...

... dancing shows every night that are incredible, and tourist cops on every corner to prevent trouble, it{s been a lot of fun, it{s exactly what we wanted, to relax. tomorrow i go home and start the craziness that is in the states... i{ll be in nyc this summer and sometime in the fall head out to the west coast.... thanks again to all my family and friends that supported me on this epic adventure... i love you all and can{t wait to be reuinited!!!!! i{ll put up the snapfish link in a few days

... before her food even made it out to her she was in the toilet throwing up, but that never stopped her from eating the delicious array or meats and corn breads on offer. We then went back to the hotel and met our tour leader Sarah, who is an awesome chick from South Australia, and she told us to check out La Rosa Zona (the red zone) for dinner. This area was like the restaurant and bar area of Mexico City with the center piece being the Statue of ...

... floor as they passed throught the bar...very surprised noone got arrested!!! We also spent a day visiting the pyramids just outside Mexico city...they're called 'titiwhakka' or something along those lines anyway!! Here we spent a marvelous few hours taking stupid photos of us and the pyramids in the back ground, many of which involved the oh so very original eygption pose...that was until a mexican shouted at us and told us we were on the wrong continent!!!!! oops, we ...

... And we did return, the next morning bright and early to rent a cabana for 100 pesos (about 10 dollars a night). Apparently, El Panchon and Las Margaritas was a haven for the spend thrift traveler. Tucked at the foot of the Palenque ruins, the property stretched for an undetermined length (we unsuccessfully tried to find the end of it as well as a fabled swimming pool). Pathways led away from a thatched roof restaurant and meandered into the jungle to cabanas and ...

... Territory day as well.... bummer! Mind u i'll last a few months of being settled and be off again! Im already planning another around the world trip to include Sth America, India, Thailand, Sth Africa (and hopefully back to Edinburgh at some point) Will i ever be settled???!!! Made a friend at the hostel, (whos from Adelaide, cool cool) and we bought a bottle of Tequila, and 2 Mexicans, an American, Alex and us sat around talking all night having tequila shots ...

... up potentially volatile subjects like politics and abortion and clergy marriage and how he saw a dead body on his way to Austin and hoped it was DeLay. Very Christian. But I stayed pretty quiet whatever he talked about. I'm a quiet kind of guy. So the border crossing was troublesome. He was surprisingly unprepared considering he'd done this several times. He wanted to go see about a sticker for his car. He said he didn't think he needed one if he was ...