i rise early and go to check out the second (shock horror)/chicken buses as they are called here, timetables. its like a normal bus in england to be honest, and we find we are leaving later in the morning, for only four squids... bargain! with it being a day bus i get such a great ride. here is a short list of some of the things i saw: villages ...

Overnight bus trips are at best a necessary evil. Overnight bus trips without the advertised air conditioning are vile. We left Oaxaca at 9 pm on the overnight first-class ADO bus across the isthmus of Tehuantepec to Villahermosa on the Gulf of Mexico. For much of the night, the air conditioning did its work. But as morning began to dawn and the...

Hey Im currently staying in a really small village in the jungle called El Panchan. It is only a couple of kmīs away from the amazing ruins of Palenque. The jungle around the ruins is so thick and dense and you can hera howling monkeys while exploring the ruins. I arrived here a few days ago and have been staying in a lil cabana with flyscreen w...

Hey, left San Cristobal today and now in Palenque (Pal-en-kay). we're staying in the middle of the jungle, its so hot and humid its unreal, i left my watch of the bus, and i have a dodgy tummy/the ***** again! got loads to tell you all but its too fecking hot to sit here and type let alone try and be amusing! i'll fill you all in on my activity ...

After arriving and storing my luggage I was forced to wait a couple of hours for both the rain to stop and the Palenque ruins to open. When it was all good I headed for the ruins on foot. I had booked another overnight bus to Oaxaca for later in he afternoon so I had time to kill. The ruins were only about 7 kms away and it was a nice walk, desp...

Famous for the Aztec pyramids. A great night out catching a lift on the back of a pick up truck, dancing on the bar and winning freebies

Viva Mexico! After the hike, the next leg of our trip was up to Mexico. We consider this part of the trip successful, simply for the fact that Eric did not get "arrested" (or harassed as he likes to call it) by Mexican cops this time. He's really come a long way since his college days. We stopped off in San Cristobal de las Casas for a day or tw...