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Opps, apparently you need to actually pay for your flight for them to book it.... We show up bright and early to catch our plane and somehow my VISA was never charged and therefore my reservation did not go through. There were still spots on the plane but for 6x the cost. We had a lovely hour before the plan left frantically calling the flight company to fix this little problem, and eventually they let us buy our tickets at the original price. This is where our motto and the theme of our trip arose of "It always works out in [View Full Entry]

carriemcq - Carrie McQ | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 30th 2009 | 96 Views | [diary=434736]


Den 7. august var det blevet tid til at Louise skulle tilbage til DK. Det var lidt trist at sige farvel til hende, men hun glædede sig også til at komme hjem. Så nu er rejseselskabet reduceret til Søren og jeg. Weekenden gik med afslapning og ture til stranden. Lørdag aften tog vi i byen på Coco Bongo, åbenbart en meget kendt natklub herovre. Det kostede 45 dollars at komme ind (hvis man købte billetten i forsalg, ellers var den dyrere), men så var der til gengæld et kæmpe show og fri bar hele natten. Det var et show med look-a-likes, [View Full Entry]

signea - Signe Agner | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 13th 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=427957]

Hunden Kokanee, som boede på vores hotel i Playa del Carmen, kunne godt lide kolde drinks
Kokanee er også en rigtig kælepotte!
Natklubben - udefra lignede den en jungleruin

Finally hopping into bed after our first night on vacation. Its almost 4am here, so its about 5am back home. This extra hour is really making a big difference. Tasha has been asleep for several hours. She has been tired for a long time and we haven't stopped moving since Wednesday morning. I got to her house around 2:30 am, and we quickly got our cab. It was actually a nice cab ride. We got to JFK, checked-in and really didn't have to wait that long before we boarded. We were both tired, and hungry so the excitement of the day [View Full Entry]

PinkLuxe - Courtney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 11th 2009 | 23 Views | [diary=417215]


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
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Published: July 10th 2009 | 65 Views | [diary=416968]

Beach at Cancun
Cancun swimming
Dinner

Now we are in Playa del Carmen, we were going to rent an appartement with Daniel's father +wife + son, but the place had electrical problems, but we got a better place until they could get it fixed. We'll post some pictures later, cuz the internet cappacity are to low here. We have spent the last days in the pool and in the jaquzzi on the roof and i must say it is heaven to lay on the rooftop to get a tan ;) Today we are going to the place we originally rented, they'll pick us up around three o'clock, [View Full Entry]

Timetravellers - Hanne & Daniel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 6th 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=415888]


Hola Amigos, FRIDAY: Today, we went to Tulum, a site of Mayan ruins about 60 miles or so from our resort. We signed up for the "express" tour, which meant that we'd leave at about 7am and get back "a little after 1pm." At least, that's what the travel company's sales rep told us the previous day. We envisioned ourselves in a van cruising straight to Tulum, where we'd meet up with a guide, get the low-down on the place, swim a bit (Tulum is on the sea), dry off and grab a bit to eat and then come straight back [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 30th 2009 | 57 Views | [diary=395141]


April 29, Wednesday Up and at it early enough to easily make my 8:15 dive appointment. I was excited as we were going to dive two places along the reef system, which is fairly close to shore here at Playa del Carmen. Helene, a pretty Danish girl, was my "Dive Mike" quide/dive buddy, and we chatted about where we've both camped in Denmark. We carried our gear about 1/2 block down to the beach, loaded up on the boat, and in about 10 minutes were at the dive location. This was about a 60 foot deep area, and we saw many [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 1st 2009 | 85 Views | [diary=395309]

Jump in spot for Diving
Amazingly clear water

April 28, Tuesday I had picked up a brochure for BioMaya, a jungle adventure site just north of Bacalar, where the beautiful 7 shades of blue fresh water lagoon is located. Deb was a little disappointed that we didn’t get to try zip-lining while in Belize, and this place offered us the chance, with the added benefit of its being directly on the way to Playa del Carmen. We pulled in to the site and were greeted by an employee with a surprised look on his face. Come to find out they didn’t expect to see anyone, as all the holidays [View Full Entry]

ricknelson - Rick Nelson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 1st 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=395302]

Tower over the Jungle
Didn't quite make the end
Up the hoist

We’ve acquired some pretty handy travel skills in the last year, the most well-honed and particularly important ones being: 1) packing; 2) bartering; 3) getting along with each other on travel days (the most fight-worthy day of them all). A close fourth would be our ability to find cheap(er) flights. It was a cheaper flight that led us through South Africa (rather than Australia) on the way to Argentina, and it was also the reason we spent four days in Bogota, Colombia - simply a cheaper option than flying directly from Lima to Cancun. But really, our little layover in Bogota [View Full Entry]

Mr and Mrs Smith - Mr. and Mrs. Smith | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 27th 2009 | 339 Views | [diary=391153]

Botero bums
Dali
Bogota breakfast

Gran Cenote The cab drove along the highway toward Cobá and dropped us, (Kane, Karol, and me), off at the Gran Cenote and we walked in to this privately owned wonder, passing by some small buildings caged chickens, then down the stairs to a lowered dock to pick up our snorkeling gear. The sight of the cenote was wonderful - crystal clear blue and green water in underground caves, with tropical roots hanging down the sides of the rocks. My friends got in first, off the side of a wooden platform right next to a ladder. When I jumped in I [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 22nd 2009 | 72 Views | [diary=392745]

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