Suenos De Tulum Hotel

FLUO EST AU MEXIQUE !!

En ce joli Samedi d'Octobre direction la ville voisine de Cuernavaca (1h de Mexico en autobus), dans l'Etat de Morelos. Beaucoup d'habitants du DF (District Federal = ville de Mexico) possèdent une maison secondaire ici où ils viennent passer les week end et les vacances loin du chaos.

La ville est très colorée, il n'y a pas 2 facades de maison de la même couleur ...

... young population.
Met Elias at the hostel (Hi !) who was very kind and showed me around. Too bad I was too tired to really enjoy the nightclubs...

Next day, my plane for Bogota took off at 3:50pm. I accidentally broke a piece inside the -cheap-plane, and was kindly asked to not destroy it during the flight ^^.

... sold out of tickets for the first class bus, leaving us 2 options; take the 3rd class bus leaving a few hours later or spend the night. We chose to spend the night.

I chose a hotel next to the bus station that cost about double what we had budget for, but it had air con, cable and wifi so I couldn’t complain. After a quick snack of vegetarian tacos I dragged Milli to the shopping mall, which turned out to be about 2 kilometres further away than I remember seeing on ...

... br>Friday, 20 August, Day 209

Mexico City, Mexico

Dave and I went on a quest today to find the haunted Island of the Dolls. We caught the overground for over an hour out of the city. This is when the size of the city hit me. For the entire trip every street we passed was busy. There were people everywhere, there were shops for everything and every shop was always full of people. There were trains every few minutes and each one was always busy ...

... of this for 25 pesos. We had the cenote to ourselves until a backpacker from Israel came along.

Time was short and we had a schedule to keep. We negotiated a 40 pesos taxi ride back to the ADO station in Valladolid to purchase a ticket on the 1:05 ADO bus to Tulum town. We didn't realize until later that if you asked the bus driver to drop you off at the ruinas he would have done so as there was an ADO stop on the access ...

... that take you to the main door, shops ... Well it is time to eat something before visit Tulum so, well, I prefer to eat in Don Cafetos my favorite restaurant in Mexico but this time in a new ...

... to look at all the fish swimming around in their own little jungle oasis. It was an amazing place, like a swimming pool in the middle of the jungle. I could see the tunnel that lead out to the sea but I didn´t go too near it´s dark opening for fear of what lurked within. On the sea side, our guide and I dived to the entrance of the cenote, where large fish danced in the mixture of fresh and salt water. The sea took on a strange color as the too mixed ...

... location directly on the Caribbean coastline, affording uninterrupted panoramic views of the sea and white sand beaches. Whilst the ruins are definitely worth a visit, be prepared to share the experience with thousands of others. We literally had to wrestle ourselves into the prime photo spots which, whilst it did not ruin (excuse the pun) the experience, it certainly did detract from it and we were more than happy to leave the hoards to fight it out after only being there an hour.

... came to Mexico in exile ... Trotsky also had an affair with Kahlo. You can go around their "Blue House" one of the places where they (and Trotsky and his wife) lived and see various memorabilia of them both. Coyoacan is a very pleasant suburb and in contrast to Mexico City centre with its peaceful park full of squirrels (the Viveros or "nurseries) , nice colonial buildings and main plazas where there were market stalls and street performers on the Saturday afternoon. On ...

... easily a train pulls in so jump on - the sign we want has an arrow in that direction. First stop realise we are going hte wrong way... back again. Then nearly miss our correct stop until the doors start to shut. Doing well we think. The next 2 lines were without incidend! As for Mexico city... staying in historic centre, very impressive place... shame about the rain!