Caribean

This blog is about my trip through Mexico. I started in Cancun, made my way along the coast, Playa del Carmen, to the jungle in Palenque, the colonial town San Cristobal, going further to Oaxaca, Mexico city, down the pacific coast looking for good waves ...

For my parent's anniversary and for a conference for my dad, we went to the caribean with the family. Awesome place, beautiful beaches, parties etc.

... from the river, a root similiar to potatoe and coconut juice. Everything harvested right there around the village. To really have a Caribean experience we hired a man with a panga to take us out to the Pearl Keys, a group of uninhabited islands in the ...

After the last weekend in Manuel Antonio we decided to go to the Caribean Coast this weekend - to Puerto Viejo. Great choice - the bus ride took about 3-4 hrs and cost US$ 5. Our hotel was german run and really great - clean, with moskito nets, fresh ...

After more than a week in the jungle, it was great to arrive at the caribean beaches. We stayed in Santa Fe, a small and charming fishing village where we spent four days fishing, snorkling and resting. The posada was owned by a very nice couple who ...

the caribean at last, and in such a beatifull ...

Work flash back So right now in my hostel i got stuck up on the top of the bunk bed and when i was getting down yesterday afternoon after a lil siesta my ladder kicked out on me and i found myself dangling from the top bunk. given the drop wasn´t so ...

The Cast: Guido & Sylvia, the crazy German (& Austrian) Sailors who owned the boat, ran the show, and constantly reprimanded us for breaking various rules on the ship (there were quite a few....I got reprimanded for leaving a pen in the sun ...

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The bus journey from Bahia Salinas to Puerto Viejo took 15 hours in total, I seem to have developed a camel like bladder and can now travel vast distances without needing the toilet. This part of the tour didn't start off so well, during a visit to a ...

Blech! We just barely survived the longest (and as such, the most terrible) bus journey of the trip to get to the city of Salvador. We were told that it would be 27 hours, which is bad enough, so were almost suicidal when it finally arrived in Salvador ...

Or relaxville part II. I think we stayed at the most beautiful, coolest place in town here. 'Coco'- yellow board cabanas built over the bahia, with our own private dock and view of the splendid mountains of Panama in the distance. Bocas is really ...

We caught the Labor Day (US spelling) Caribbean carnival parade in Brooklyn (a great deal of bare flesh but rather too much of it (in excess on singular instances for my liking), the Brazilian festival in central Manhattan, had dinner in the middle of ...

JEAN Taganga is a really peacefull village which is known for his cheap courses of diving. I went to dive here and the visibility is not the best in this period of the year (10m) as it rains almost every day in the evening and that shakes up the water ...

cruise ...