Hostal de la Mina Sombrerete

... Several of the tombs were elaborately decorated with flowers, candles, pictures, and streamers. Some people even had created special designs for the tombs, for example, one tomb had a baby carriage made from marigolds on it.

Later on in the day, as the sun began to set, we headed to the Lake to catch a boat to Janitzio to see the Day of the Dead celebrations on the island. We were there a bit too early, but I was told around ...

... is my favorite thing in Mexico! It is a beer glass with an inch of lime juice on the bottom, topped with a beer (Corona, Pacifico or Sol are my favorites) and the top of the glass is lined with salt like a Margarita. This is an amazing drink and I have been enjoying them ever since he showed me them. I also tried a torta for the first time. This is a sandwich that is sooooooooooo good.


I keep finding myself amazed at how many trees ...

... wards we headed to The Office Bar and chilled, it was nice because its right on the shore so we can walk over to the beach and take a dip, the only bad thing about the Office bar is that there literally a million vendors passing in front of your view trying to sell you something. Jason said we can just let the waiter know and they would do something about it. But it didn't really bother ...

... a first for me!! See photos attached of hotel.

Then time to leave Nige to fly south to Peru. After quite an eventful trip including having to try and sleep on airport benches through the night in Lima airport arrived safe in cusco. First week is to learn Spanish in school with Clare. Slight shock to the system becoming a student again, living in student digs but I'm sure good for me!? See student digs entry for photos and more chat on our time in cusco.

I decided to head over the Sierra Madre mountains to Durango, I had heard about the Copper Canyon over that way towards Zacatecas, but I totally misjudged the distance,
On some of the farm land they were still using horse drawn ploughs, this was on UK size fields.
I didn't get to Durango until 15:30. Raymondo will know the scenario "its just round the next corner!"
Anyway the ride over the ...

As a vacation, cruise and honeymoon specialist, I am more critical of resorts than the average guest. I look at the resort in terms of how it would fit the needs of my clients so I tend to be very picky when I travel.

My husband and I spent 6 nights at the Occidental Grand Xcaret in mid June. They were running a fabulous special to entice travelers back to their resort after the much exaggerated swine flu problem. I actually booked this trip as a ...

As a part of our Yucatan vacations we decided to drive through the Mayan jungle, there is actually a pretty good road going from Chetumal to Campeche. Approximately, 150 km into the forests we arrived at a small village called Xpujil - it's a great starting point if you want to visit several very interesting ruin sites within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. It's off the mainstream tourist trails so it ...

... for 340 + 390 peso for 1 or 2 persons.

Hotel Reforma De Durango, 5 de Febrero no. 303, Tel: 01 (618) 8131622. I spent my first night staying at this three star 100 bedroom hotel. They offer en-suite rooms with wireless, sky TV, secure parking and a bar and restaurant. Their rates begin at 200 peso.

Midrange

Durango, Durango, Mexico amazingjourneys

... people carrier to offer me a ride around town to the road that leads off to Jerez. The family consisted of three generations – Arturo and Norma, their daughter Eua, her husband Jose and their baby son, Jesus. Within a minute of them dropping me off, Arthur pulled over to offer me a ride the rest of the way. He was a jolly old chap and was a great laugh to practice my Spanish on. Remarkably he had ...

I surprised my husband with a trip to Mexico in 2005 - not sure, but I think this was his first xmas present from me. Ya, we used to spoil each other back in the whoo-ing stage :o)

We headed for an all-inclusive one week vacation in March to the Mayan Riveria.
Had a great time - 5 star is all they know down there ...