Travel Blog | About TravelBlog | World Facts | Travel Wallpaper | Travel Forum | Travel Insurance | Services | Cameras

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire

Dee Maguire Dee and Aoife's trip to central America, flying off to Mexico for the first leg of the trip on the 22nd June 2009!! look forward to uploading the first installment
Private Message Subscribe 1 Forum Posts Top Photos Blog Map
Joined on: June 9th 2009
Last Login: November 20th 2009

Blog Entries: 12
Photos: 253
Visited Countries


RSS
TB Code: [blogger=123984]
Status: BLOGGER

Blogs & Travel Journals

by Deemaguire, order by Date newest first.

« back 1 10 next »

Vocano Agua
Vocano Agua
This dormant volcano dominate the city skyline
After a bit of a fiasco with buses, we made it out of Flores a day later than we'd planned. There was no direct bus to Lake Atitlan, where we meant to go to next so we decided to go to Antigua first instead. As we had to go through Guatemala city, it was a chance to get a good look at the place from a mini bus window; once we changed bused in the main terminal. Guatemala city has a bad rep, and everyone I spoke to who had been there said not to bother with it, so I was [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1570 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 40 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 24th 2009 | 88 Views | [diary=421577]

Old buiding in Antigua
the other volcanos one last time
Market

Getting up at the ungodly hour of 4am was actually OK. Reason being we had though that the minibus taking us to Tikal was going to get us there in time to climb a temple to watch teh sun rise. Of course no such thing happened - or could have happened - as we found out while watching the sun rise from the minibus seats that the gate of the site didnīt even open till 6am, well after sun rise. So feeling a little disappointed at this, we arrived at the site. Tikal was the thing I was looking forward to [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
828 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 26 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 17th 2009 | 90 Views | [diary=419506]

Weird Raccoon type animal
Cedar trees
On a Jungle trek

Leaving San Pedro was extremely hard, none of us wanted to go at all as weīd had such a wicked time there. But as it was pretty expensive we decided it was for the best to move on so on Tuesday morning we headed for the boat with tears in our eyes. The scenery from the boat as you wizz down between the Cayes and the coast is amazing, dense forest vegetation on the mainland side, the trees hugging the shore line. The country seems so untouched, we were traveling for miles without seeing a house at all, giving an amazing [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
995 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 10 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 17th 2009 | 106 Views | [diary=419254]

Belize City 2
View from the Swing Bridge
Street scene Belize City

Wow! Wow! Wow! is all I can say!! Absolutely loving where we are, on the island of Ambergris, in the town of San Pedro in the Belize Barrier Reef. The Barrier Reef here is the 2nd largest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. We arrived here on the 7am ferry from Corozal after staying there for our first night in Belize. It's exactly what I imagined a tropical paradise to be like; crystal clear blue-green waters, white sand, coconut trees everywhere. But it's much more than that, it's the great food, relaxed, laidback atmosphere and most importantly [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
871 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 19 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 13th 2009 | 222 Views | [diary=417894]

The sign in Estel's
The dogs of Estel's restaurant
Testing out the snorkel gear

Iguanas
Iguanas
They were everywhere in Tulum, lots and lots of them. Petty cute in a weird, dinosaur sort of way
After Palenque, we boarded another bus to Merida (the worst thing about traveling is the actual traveling- have packing and unpacked my bag to death at this point). Merida is the capital of the Yuactan state and we had read that it is famous for its street parties at the weekend. We were arriving on a Friday so we thought that this would be great. Unfortunately the Mexican elections were happening on the Sunday, so there wasn't much happening at all at all in the place. It was a nice enough town but after an afternoon strolling around and getting our [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
569 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 27 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 10th 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=416968]

Beach at Cancun
Cancun swimming
Dinner

By Deemaguire
July 4th 2009
Palenque North America » Mexico » Chiapas » Palenque
Yesterday we spent the day wandering round the ruins of Palenque. This time we were guideless so it was just the information on the plaques that informed us. It's truly breathtaking there, so I'm just going to let the photos rather than me do most of the talking for this one. Some of the murals were from 600BC and extremely well preserved, it's amazing to think of the difference in artistic and architectural development of the Mayan people when compared to that of the Bronze age Celts who were just producing simple geometric patterns at the same time. Only downside was [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
231 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 34 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 4th 2009 | 48 Views | [diary=415189]

Map of the site
Inside a temple
Inside 2

Crazy Chics
Crazy Chics
Finally got them up, don't know what was going on with last blog
Travel blog is starting to annoy me as there is always a problem with uploading the photos, so photos for this to follow. I wasn't looking forward ro the 12 hour bus journey from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de Las Casa as I never sleep on moving vehicles and it wasn't ro disappoint any of us on that score. Agter plonking myself beside Aoife on the bus, we settled down to try and sleep but this wasn't going to happen, particularily as the bus raced round hairpin bends as we winded our way further up mountains. The weather had put on [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1122 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 23 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 1st 2009 | 81 Views | [diary=413950]

Crazy Chics 2
'Day of the Dead' woman
Me beside her

By Deemaguire
June 28th 2009
Crazy Chics North America » Mexico » Oaxaca » Oaxaca
So, it was with a heavy heart that we spent our last day saying good bye to Mexico City. We all really loved it. There's so much to do there, we were tempted to extend our stay some more, but you could spend 6 months there and still have loads to do. Our last day was spent having a lazy morning (much needed after pyramid climbing!!) and then heading to the Mercado. This is the largest covered maket in latin America apparently and it is absolutely massive. We had heard there was great food stalls there and we weren't disappointed! Lots [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
459 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 1 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: June 28th 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=413126]


So yesterday we booked a trip with the hostel to visit the pyramids of Teotihuacan. We thought it would be nice to visit them this way as we would also get a chance to meet some other people from the hostel. There were 6 of us going on the trip, so after breakfast we got on our minibus with a French couple and the lovely Michelle from Switzerland. Our guide for the day was Alex who turned out to be really informative and friendly and our driver Oscar who multi tasked doing other things throughout the day such as working in [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1298 Words | 2 Comment(s) | 29 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: June 26th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=412560]

Mew basicillica building
Us at the Basicillica
Listening to Alex

So, after a fab dinner in the Condesa neighbourhood last night, in an extremely veggie friendly restaurant (in a working book shop, very funky and the fact that it was mine and Dara's first experience of mole - delicious) we again headed back for an early night (it's tiring work sitting on a tour bus all day long I'll have you know!) So bright and early this morning, up I got to find another fabulous day's weather (the BBC weather forecast really need sorting out, it's torrential rain according to them). Once ready, we sauntered off to the metro (first time [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
844 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 24 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: June 25th 2009 | 288 Views | [diary=412019]

more canal shots
the trajineras
The brilliant papier-mache fronts of the boats



« back 1 10 next »