Hotel Le Diwali Ste. Anne

It's a cool wet morning, just like home. I get the bike out of the ballroom and head off fully suited into the mountains. I manage to get onto the free roads again, I must be getting the hang of it.
Once again there are whisps of white clouds drifting above and below, and really high black ones dropping on me! This is probably the best road so far (Mex 190) to Santa Domingo Tehauntepec, really good surface well generally ...

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Früh morgens schauten wir uns etwas im historischen Zentrum von Oaxaca um. Leid** öffnen die Museen (und auch das Regi**ungsgebäude) **st um 10.30 Uhr. Glücklich**weise hat Gott imm** Zeit für uns und so schauten wir uns zu **st die Iglesia de Santo Domingo an. Eigentlich **inn**t das Inn**e eh** an einen Palast als an eine Kirche. Kunstvolle, mit goldbelegte Ornamente und Skulpturen zi**en die Wände und ...

... not dissapppointed.....Chichen Itza known for it's huge central plaza and stepped pyramid was awesome.......they seemed to have ball games long before we Brits invented football !! but the winning captain got the honour of being sacrificed to the gods not paid fortunes for falling over !! so a pretty long game I guess. We stayed in Merida the capital of Yucatan in a "rustic" style hotel....which we later found out was going to be the norm for ...

Well no trip report from MX would be complete with out a discussion on Topes. We North Americans would refer to them as Speed bumps. If you drive in Mexico you will quickly learn not to ignore any sign that looks like or is spelled like tope. I have seen them called Tope, Tope, Topas, and Reductors. All are designed with one thing in mind, to slow traffic or create and accident if you don´t slow. They are made ...

On to Puerto Arista, a relative metropolis, plenty of shops, some of them even open! Out of high season seaside towns tend to only fully open at weekends when the city dwelling Mexican hordes descend. Found a nice little place near a smelly lagoon and not far from the beach, but sadly, as often happens in Mexico, the workers started banging around at 6am - because it´s really hot later, they start work early but with no concern for their sleeping clients.

Just a stop over in this small town, where a Saturday night is spent drinking until falling asleep in the streets. It was quite funny arriving there so late, everyone just coming to us so drunk and talking to us and then after one hour seeing them sleeping outside. This time has not much apart from good hot dogs, we went to eat them at a stand where they were showing a Mexican boxing game, and i had to stasy the whole 11 rounds and cheer up with the locals...

Hi to you all, I think it was Saturday the 1st of March we left San Christobal for an orhanage called the Hogar Infantil, a short trip to Ocozocoautla, if you can get your mouth around that one let me know? We stopped at Chiapa de Corzo on the way and toured the spectacular Sumidero Canyon by boat for over 2 hours. 800 meter walls at it's highest point with water 160 meters at it's deepest we were told, a couple of unusual formations on the ...

We arrived here in the afternoon. First we were looking for Darinel´s family, the guy that got pneumonia and maybe Tuberculosis that was gonna come with us. He had sent some things, a DVD player, chainsaw, sewing machine and a small suitcase. But the thing is, neither Galación nor Bolívar knew where he lived. We did have a small poorly ...

For our second night in Escondido, we decided to move to a more lively hostal (the mayflower). After having a few drinks and playing pool with a bunch of drunk mexican surfers and a couple of americans , we all went to Cabo Blanco for "the big party night" in PE. There were hundreds of other gringo travellers there, plus a few local chicos looking to pick up a nice looking gringa. We had a great drunken night ...