Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1892

Hallo,.. Das Leben hier in Kuba ist einfach super. Wir haben uns schon daran gewoehnt. Es waere auch ein Land fuer Alex und seinen ¨Havanna¨. Wir haben uns im Hotel schon mit einigen Angestellten sehr angefreundet. Einer davon ist unser Gaertner. Dieser stellt uns jeden morgen eine frische Kokosnuss auf den Balkon. In der Zwischenzeit haben wir auch schon unseren Ersten Tag in La Habana verbracht. Diese Stadt ist einfach traumhaft. Die Leute sind immer am Feiern, und sehr nett. Jeder will sich gleich als Touristenfuehrer geben und dir einiges verkaufen (Zigarren, Geld wechseln,...). Allein die Fahrzeuge sind ein Traum, so alt und stinken wie,... Wir und die Cubaner leben alle ohne Uhrzeit. Es wird einfach nichts gemacht,..nur gefaulenzt. Auch eine Tour durch Varadero haben wir schon hinter uns. Das ist eine reine Touristenstadt. Hier spricht ... read more

Nous sommes finalement parties de San Cristobal. Par chance, puisque toutes les routes du chiapas etaient barrees par des etudiants sauf celles vers le sud, donc vers la frontiere du Guatemala. Le passage aux frontieres sést tres bien passe, par contre je deplore un certain manque de professionalisme. Les douaniers, avant meme de nous saluer, nous ont aborde avec un ¨hey guapas chicas¨ et nónt cesse de nous regarder un peu trop intensement. Les transports en bus se font bien, quoi quún peu dangereux...disons seulement que les heures passees au bords des ravins et a contresens pour depasser des pickups etaient assez stressantes. Nous sommes finalement arrivees a Huehuetenango pour repartir le lendemain matin. Fait assez cocasse, on a pu assister a un vrai Shopping TVA live dans le bus en arrivant a Huehue. Un petit ... read more

UTILA, Bay Islands, Honduras After making my way from Copan through La Ceiba I ended up here on the small Caribbean island of Utila. In order to catch the early morning ferry out here I had to stay the night in La Ceiba, a filthy port town full of hookers and drunks. I was warned by friends to pick a nicer hotel because the cheapies were scary... and I thought I did, but was surprised to find lots of gross old men hanging about with hookers and police. I arrived after dark and didn't think it wise to walk around downtown Ceiba with my backpack looking for another place, so I stayed. After hearing some hookers go at it down the hall I stepped out to use the internet and grab a bite to eat. The ... read more

In order for me to reach Mexico City, I had to take a bus to Acapulco from Playa Azul via Lazaro Cardenas (a small town where the mainbus terminal was) which took around 6 hours. And on the same evening take another bus from Acapulco to Mexico City (paid around 300 pesos - US$30 for the 1st class overnight bus..buses are really expensive in Mexico) which took another 5 hours and I finally arrived in Mexico City at 6am. So all in all, I had been on the road for 16 hours! Mexico City is the largest city in Mexico. The city alone has a population of 18 million compared to the whole of Malaysia which is approximately 25 million. Its is elevated at 2240 m above sea level and in November the weather is nice ... read more

We arrived home yesterday evening from a very relaxing 3 day, 2 night stay with friends in Herradura. Our friends Terry and Elena are our oldest friends in our new lives, not in age, in the length of time we've known them. Terry was the only other person on our George Lundquist tour last summer. We all met Elena our second night of the tour, it was a love connection for them. The two are now married and living happily ever after at the beach. The seven of us, including dogs all moved back to Costa Rica within days of each other. At one point we thought we’d all be on the same flight out of LAX. We got an unexpected surprise when we went to pick up our cargo ten days later and ran into ... read more