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.<br> 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 ...

... Zipolitega huvasti j2tta viis Jade ja Jorge kiire otsus ka oma teekonda Guatemala poole j2tkata...kellel samuti illegaalseks muutumise oht v6i kellel lihtsalt maastiku muutust vaja... j2rgmised kahe p2eva jagu aega mooduvad maanteid kulutades ja poidlakuuti puudes, omades omajagu p2ikesekuumust, kuivusest kipitavat kurku ja kripeldavat n2lga...tunde oodates ning tunde r2ndavas "camionetas" veetes, samm j2llegi kuhugi l2hemale... esimene 66 v66rsil viis meid rahulikult ...

... Int**essant war auch das alte Marktgebäude. B**eits zur frühen Stunde bieten dort die V**käuf**innen und V**käuf** ihre Ware feil. Die eigentliche Sehenswürdigkeit d** Gegend ist jedoch d** angrenzende Monte Alban. Auf dessen Gipfel, rund 2000 m.ü.M., befindet sich eine d** grossartigsten Pyramidenanlagen Mexicos. Das einstige Kulturzentrum d** Zapoteken wurde ca. 500-200 v.Chr. auf ein** k ...

... entailed getting there by small local bus and the guide only spoke spanish....suprising really as we were in Mexico ! so had to listen hard and use all of our vast vocabulary to understand....the village had a market with an amazing old 16th century church...you would hardly recognise it as christian and catholic, more like pagan as we saw chickens sacrificed and no furniture at all, the floor was covered in pine needles and burning ...

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...

... formed by sediment deposited over the years. We spotted a couple of crocs on the way home, the driver floated us right up to within a couple of meters of one "statue" sunning itself on some driftwood. Some of the people including Larry couldn't see it, but as soon as he got a sniff of it he tried to climb out the other side of the boat. After the tour and lunch our little convoy of 3 headed through the city of Tuxla Guiterrez and after ...

... map, and we knew to go the entrance of the city and look for a certain restaurant, and then to go down the street and ask for the Castillo family. So we found some Castillos but the guy seemed to not remember the names of his nephews that had gone "to the other side" or "al Norte" (to the North). So we continued on to the other ...

... you just get frustrated and say "I hate these people" and things like that. For me, it was because we met up again with a Belgium girl named Innis (maybe it´s Janice?) and she gushed about how she lived with a Mexican family for months and how all Mexicans are so nice. We sat in a cafe having breakfast and juice when she happened to pass by. We´d met up with her back in Puerto I think, so it was fun to see her again. Turns out she´s ...