Posada Dolores
Travel Blogs from Dolores Hidalgo
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When they said we would get a wake up call, usually it is a gentle knock on the door or a phone ring. Except that our tented camps had neither door nor phone. But we heard the wake up call alright, 3 or 4 of the staff went around the camp banging on a drum - the only actual musical instrument - and pots and pans, It was loud by the time they went past our tent.
You know you are treated well when there is already a pot of hot coffee on your ...
Chapter Uno Spehtyo Mexicana!!
... he points to this red rusty dinosaur of a bus and says Terminal 1 .. So this thing was just to take me to terminal 1 I still have to find the coach to Xalapa and I'm rapidly running out of time!!
>ok I'm going out in the mud and jungle to turn on the boiler to have a shower now. I'm working in the rainforest today for first time, I spent all last night getting seeds out of these furry things with my fingers while playing with Mexican kids and animals. To be cont<
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Class III on the Rio Antigua - Jalco to Coetzala
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I remembered this section from my beginner trip it was the most difficult section of river we ran near the end of the trip. I could remember a bigger class III rapid at the top that we scouted last time. It looked like we weren't scouting this time. I was doing fine until I hit a rock halfway down and got flipped into a large hole. Donna landed on top of my kayak and ran part of the rapid on top of my boat while I was upside down and trying ...
Xalapa
... wobei es eine Ehre war, daran teilzunehmen und an dessen Ende jemand geopfert wurde. Ob das nun die Gewinner oder die Verlierer waren, da scheiden sich die Geister. Hier in El Tajin soll es der Anfuehrer der Gewinner gewesen sein, der durch seinen Tod den begehrten Eintritt in den Himmel erreichen konnte. Nach einem ausfuehrlichen Rundgang durch die Tempelanlage fluechten wir uns in den Schatten, denn die Sonne brennt zur Mittagszeit mal wieder gnadenlos, und selbst ...
Day 4: Flatwater - Diversion en el Rio Antigua
... The down stream v, or tongue as its sometimes called, is formed where the current is the fastest and deepest, it is the best line for you to follow since it is relatively devoid of obstacles. After discussing the rapid and the line we should take Anna asked for a volunteer to go first. Everyone looked a little apprehensive so I volunteered since I've run rapids before. What is was going down into was only a class 1 rapid so it wasn't really anything to worry about. ...