Hotel Carmen Teresa

... Mal Pais and Santa Teresa. We are staying at Charlie´s Cabinas 100 meters from the beach in Playa Carmen which is halfway between Mal Pais and Santa Teresa. This is certainly another piece of paradise despite it being gringo ville. It´s great how ...

... (11 hours travel + overnight) and a minibus through belize into mexico and a coach to playa del carmen (10 hours travel) i finally mad it to a all inclusive hotel with hot showers and all you can eat food and drink , bonus! Chicken bus- Old american ...

... zero temperatures was not that attractive. The most galling thing was that our campsite overlooked a very nice, new and swish looking hotel. Carmen was prepared to pay any price to stay there rather than on the campsite, but Pablo convinced her to brave ...

... We managed to find some really nice clothes stores, much better quality than anything else I have seen except probably in Playa del Carmen. Daniela was a really good personal shopper :-) There was a great dress in the first store we went in but I wanted ...

... asap.  There wasn't one to be had so after much solicitous effort on C E F's part we moved from Santa Teresa down the hill to Lapa and a fairly basic hotel but with lifts and a bed on the floor. Since Ros could hardly walk we hired a guide, Marco a ...

... felt comfortable in talking with while on the ferry to France.  They are very good people.  Ferman Martinez and his wife Teresa are the oldest couple from this group.   Ferman speaks the least amount of English, and he looks a bit ...

... its beaches, I decided to stay around the central district for a couple of days before heading south to Playa del Carmen, where the journey really begins. Accommodation While in Cancun I stayed at: Las Palmas Hotel / Hostel, Calle ...

... open-mouthed, wondering why two tourists were sitting on the back of a Park Ranger Golf Buggy and laughing!! Such a laugh.   The Carmen Miranda museum was a complete shock. This is the actress, who moved to Brazil from Portugal as a child and who ...

... pousada, one night booked in Santa Teresa - a place that had appealed because it had been used for fashion shoots. Secretly I think Carmen wanted to visualise herself in a swanky shoot for ´Elle´ or ´Her´ magazine. To be fair it was stunning with ...

... the top of Aba Malaga pass at 4300 m (the scenery is gorgeous - snow capped mountains and plunging valleys) and continue straight to Santa Teresa for lunch at 3:00. Protests are futile and the last two and a half hours are on dirt road, some of it the ...

... I did not mind another look at this gorgeous church.  Further east, there is the remains of an old convent Santa Teresa, which is currently being used as the local jail.  Finally I arrived at the Convento de las Capuchinas, which supposedly has ...

... turbulent passages (level 3 and 4) add some emotion to the itinerary. In the afternoon visit to the Countryside: Sabandía windmill, Carmen Alto, Añashuayco (sillar) and Yanahuara. Sixth Day: At 3:30 am, departure to the Colca Canyon with your guide. ...

... So where were we? Oh yeah, getting a cab over to Rocinha so we could keep this party going. The four of us (Nic, Ilan, Carmen and I) caught a cab over to Rocinha while we briefed the Goldsteins about what to expect. Right on cue, as soon as we got out ...

... and now part of us. Polite Ferman and gentle Teresa, Caring Bertha and much traveled Marie. Property manager Rigo and glamorous Carmen, Teacher Marta and salesman Augustin. On this tour we've teachers’ galore, Irish Colleen Una and Historian Branko. ...

... morning travel and the effects of the altitude, but we continued to trudge along. We got a tour of the Monastery of St. Teresa, where 21 Carmelite nuns still live and practice their faith here. Apparently there are only ever 21 nuns in the monastery at a ...