Hotel Villa Maria Merida

Enfin je peut dire que laventure a reelement commence, je nai plus a arpenter les commerces avec des CV dans mon sac.

Enfin cest le temps de voyager pour vrai !

Apres 14 heures dautobus, je debarque a la station nord de la ville a 7H du matin et je prend un taxi jusquau Mexico city Hostel, recommende chaudement dans le Lonely Planet. Endroit tres agreable, ou tous les services sont offerts, en en plus je suis a 2 coins de rue de ...

... I drank as much as I could as fast as I could muster and threw the rest away. Shame.
The flight to Santiago was the big one; over night. We were fed dinner at 10pm. I had chicken primavera with rice and Nick got fish and mashed potatoes. We both had a different cake for dessert and I had three free refills of wine.
There were tv screens at each seat and you could choose from many movies ...

... Speaking of better things, I did some very productive research here at the Faculdad del Antropologia. The Faculdad itself is a collection of two huge buildings at the outskirts of Merida, actually surrounded by scrub forest. It is a really peaceful place and I came to appreciate it very much. Library staff was very friendly and helpfull, so I take back home with me a huge stack of very useful photocopies. It´s amazing the oversight of Yucatecan archaeology I ...

... Our taxi ride from the bus station located on the outskirts brought us through a somewhat grimy city that we were desperately expecting to rapidly improve in looks as we neared the center. Unfortunately this did not happen.

Unlike a lot of the destinations we had visited in Mexico our first impression of Merida left something to be desired.

This impression was created by dimly lit conditions, heavy traffic, shabby housing and grimy streets.
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico lobo

... Saturday and Sunday were like this. The roads all shut down, restaurant tables in the streets, vendors set up all over the zocalo, bands playing everywhere. It was glorious. I went to bed early that night as we had an early morning on Sunday. We got up around 8am to get ready to head out to Chichen Itza. Sarah and Martijn were coming on the tour with us. We gathered in the entrance of the hostel along with a German couple and a Chinese guy. The tour guide brought ...

... little camera as well as for yourself. So with that said, we didn`t get any pictures, so you will have to visit for yourself...and if you do, get some pics and email them to me!!! The second day was actually one of the main reasons we came to Mexico City in the first place...the Pyramids of Teotihuacan. Actually, we learned that these were not pyramids, but rather temples as they were built with steps and the priests and leaders of the city. We were given this ...

... nous felliciter pour notre prestation et surtout parceque j'etais pieds nus (j'ai perdu mes tongs pendant le defile). On change de scene, la ca bougeait un peu plus et on est reste assez longtemps et plusieurs gars admiratifs devant mes pieds. A la fin un clochard nous invite a danser une danse chamanique ou de gars bourre, j'etais pas beaucoup mieux que lui... Le lendemain fut moins joyeux, gueule de bois nous voila parti pour aller visiter Chitchen ...

... social security causing them to close the palace. It was a sedate affair but a fitting introduction to Mexico's tumultuous history displayed in the murals. We then visited the Cathedral Metropolitana, the oldest in Latin America. Rather than the grandness. the most impressive thing was the visible slumping of the building. Mexico city is built on a filled in lake and can't support the heavy structures built on it not to mention its frequent earthquakes.

Been here for two days, hostel is nice,although i´m in a room by the road, the city is a lovely relaxed colonial town, not big enough to deserve the tour bus & too hot for it. The antropology museam is nice and good english descriptions of ...

... Italians from the south and, literally, all three of us had hour hair standing and eyes closed after our driver demonstrated us a sample of local driving style. Compared to what we've seen Napoli style seems like a driving school.. I was happy to be back in one piece:-) My second visit in the capital was also pretty short - I came for job interviews, stayed in a very nice area of Polanco (hotel Nikko, a good quality). I did some sightseeing, this time it was two interesting museums ...