Destination: Mexico

Mi Primero Torneo de Ultimate en Mexico

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By e-face_in_mx | Views [385] | Comments [3]

Ok, I was going to talk about weather and food, but I am dying to update everyone on my ultimate tournament, so the rest will have to wait! I can’t guarantee that those of you who don’t love ultimate will enjoy this post, but you can decide for yourselves! ... Read more >

Grasshoppers: Hmm, hmm, good!

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By wanderluster | Views [293]

A classmate mentioned los chapulines yesterday, and made a face not too disimilar from the one I make everytime Sarah Palin says, "hockey mom." Los chapulines , or grasshoppers, are a common, high-protein snack in Oaxaca. I accosted Señora ... Read more >

The Time I Missed My Flight To Oaxaca

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 | By wanderluster | Views [369] | Comments [4]

I´ve done a little travel in my time, and one would think that I´d be aware of some basics. Alas, this was not case yesterday! There I was in the transit lounge at Mexico City Airport, with about three hours to kill before my flight to Oaxaca. Ate ... Read more >

Peru - Cusco

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [418]

We leave Dan and Jennie on the plane as they continue to Lima, at Cusco we are very high up 3400 meters above see level.  Straight off the plane Colin complains of feeling breathless.  We get hassled outside the airport lots of people offering us taxi's ... Read more >

Creel

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [1129] | Comments [1]

We caught the 2pm bus to Creel onTuesday and arrived there just after 6pm after being serenaded by a guy on the bus playing an accordian and singing happy songs LOUDLY! The movies were Dr Dolittle 1&2 dubbed in spanish and were fun to watch and to ... Read more >

Peru - Lima

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [467]

We arrive very late and thankfully have organised our taxi so for the first time we are met at the airport with a man waving our names, thnkfully he has waited for us s we land 2 hours late.  We then hacve a very interesting taxi ride, Peruvian taxi ... Read more >

In Case You're Worried....Don't Be!!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By e-face_in_mx | Views [503] | Comments [4]

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to let you all know that I'm fine since I've been slacking on the blog lately. I said goodbye to Cuernavaca :-( And have made it safely back to Puebla. It seems I have "la gripa," which here in Mexico is just another ... Read more >

Pyramids, Police and Protests

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By shelleytravels | Views [957] | Comments [11]

So I am in Mexico City. I have adjusted to the time zone now and am having fun... my hostel is right in the centre of all the action and everyone here is really friendly. On my first day I visited two museums with friends from my room: one about Frida ... Read more >

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Three Countries in One Day

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [343]

We fly from Cancun, Mexico, to Miami, USA, where we have to collect our luggage and go through US customs even though we aren´t leaving the airport, we even have to fill in all the forms.  The airport is then closed due to an electrical storm passing ... Read more >

Mexico Continued - Cancun

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [414]

Again we get a 2nd class bus to Cancun staright from the ruins, we catch the bus at 2.30pm ns it didn´t arrive until 9pmish, joys of the 2nd class bus and no toilet. We couldn´t find the hostel we planned on staying in, but thnkfully there are loads ... Read more >

Mexico Continued - Chichen Itza

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [391]

We take our first 2nd class bus to Chichen Itza ruins, the bus certainly isn´t as nice as the first class, but more interesting as locals can flag it down at any point, so it stops all the time and it stops for street sellers, who flag down the bus and ... Read more >

Mexico Continued - Merida

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [380]

Merida is an unexpected stop, we had hoped to get the connecting bus from Palenque to Chichen Itza, but we arrived in Merida hours after the last bus to Chicken Itza had left. The bus ride to Merida was great flat roads from the jungle into the city ... Read more >

Chihuahua, Mexico

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [5036] | Comments [1]

On Friday the moment came to leave, Elaine had had word that Jane (her daughter) just gave birth to a girl (Alyssa) and so was heading north to be with her for a week. Finally everything we needed to do was done and everyone came with us to the Greyhound ... Read more >

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Gallery: Ft Collins to Chihuahua

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 | By nomad_kiwis | Photo Gallery

Mexico Continued - Palenque

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [393]

It took the most horrendous bus drive to get here, we had to get the night bus from Oaxaca to Saint Christabo, which took 11.5 hours and I was sick or felt sick for the entire journey and you don´t get to stop.  It was awful.  We get into Saint Christabo ... Read more >