La Toubana Ste. Anne

... no such thing as perfect), ups, downs and sweeping bends.<br>The countryside is back to mainly trees and bushes with the odd small plot of cultivation, plenty of towns and speed bumps and several off road diversions for road works - and it really is off road, no room for low cars and spoilers here!<br>As on other mornings in the roadside cafes and I suppose houses, I watched mainly but not entirely the senoras making their ...

... j6e kaldale, mille vanniveesoojas vees tunde pikutasime ja soola v2lja ligundasime, koduloomade pidevat seletamist ja t2histaevast nautlesime...peris hea kui massides soola 6lgadel ei ole ja liiva kulje all napib.. Taaskord San Cristobali joudmine t6i vihma, kulma ning minu ninale gripi.. kui homseks pole rahunenud viiakse k2ttpidi tohtri juurde, et minust siga v2lja ajada aga olen kindel, et paanikaks pole p6hjust...kolme p2evaga oleks sigaline mind juba kiiremini maha niitnud..

... Plattform **richtet. Während sein** Blütezeit 500-600 n.Chr. lebten dort angeblich an die 25000 Menschen. Auf den gewaltige Pyramiden und Palästen **öffnet sich dem Besuch** eine atemb**aubende Aussicht auf die umliegenden Täl**. Die beeindruckende Anlage umfasst mehr als 16 Gräb**, Altäre und Pyramiden - und natürlich auch einen "Fussballplatz", den Juego de Pelota. Das von den Olmeken entwickelte ...

... We went to the theatre in the evening which lasted a couple of hours and was of course a traditional Mayan story with masks and tribal dress, the music was very powerful, mainly drums. The days have been long and the evenings eventful as we gather each night to eat drink and be merry BUT of course orderly....we left the disorder to the other younger GAP group.....time to move on to new country as we cross the land border to Guatemala tomorrow.

... concrete, blacktop, rebar, truck tire recaps, large diameter rope, and any other thing that is sturdy and will reach across both lanes and on to the shoulder. Some are well marked, some are not marked at all! Being on a bike makes going over them at a reasonable speed (faster than most other vehicles) easier than in others. If you hit one of these with out seeing the sign or with out having a sign there, and ...

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...

... separated and all taking different routes arrived at the orphanage within 10 minutes of each other. The short stay there was very satisfying the kids were all very happy to see us and our kids especially as most visitors are retired couples. We all kicked the footy around for a while, a couple showed a bit of potential too. We invented a new ball game, a cross between cricket and baseball that the boys played for a while. Bev lightened our ...

... and there was his wife and she said she was Darinel´s wife, and his brother looked like him too. Then we had to find Galacion´s sister, but he had no idea where she was and she wasn´t answering the phone. So we called back to the States to Javier for him to call Marilu and then we did finally find them. We slept there that night.

... staying at the youth hostel on the beach where we had just decided to move to later that day, so everything was falling into place. The only problem was that while she´s so happy with Mexico, I´m feeling tourist burnout and ready to strangle every Mexican that gives poor service or wants to steal from me. It was sort of an interesting conversation although I never got mad... at least not like I did at dinner. After making the move to ...