Blogs from Yucatán, Mexico, North America - page 74

Hi everybody Our parents, Emma and Ake, were kind enough to bring us to Mexico last summer and we are going to tell you a little about that. First we flew from Stockholm to Philadelphia in USA. We then flew over Greenland. But that is a silly name for that island because it is not green at all. It is all white! It looks cold to us. We prefer warmer climate. A few hours later we arrived in Mexico. Mexico is warmer than Greenland. First day we went to the beach. Looks nice, doesn't it? Good drinks, sandy beaches and warm! We like that. After the beach in Cancun we went south to Playa del Carmen to look for cenotes. Cenotes are small lakes or pools that you can find all over the Yucatan peninsula. The ... read more

Today was an interesting day as i would be joined by two travel companions- Kamila and Damien, and Veronica would be leaving the three of us to hit the road ourselves. I knew Kamila through the salsa circle in Newcastle, as of most of my salsa acquaintances, we never get passed the level of saying Hi and Bye. Damien is a friend of Kamila and she only knew him for about two months at that time(if i am not mistaken), and it was my first time meeting him. The three of us were going to spend the next week together. I was quite sad in a way as i kind of got so used to Veronica's company and everything has gone quite well for the last couple of days. We had this sort of unspoken agreement ... read more

merida is the capital city of the yucatan, it is a beautiful colonial city. last night i went dancing in the streets there was live music everywhere. during my evening i ended up befriending a rastafarian mexican, cool kid. this morning after enjoyning my continental breakfast of toast and coffee at my hostel, i went and met my new friend at the plaza grande. basicaly the city center where there are permanent venders and people everywhere. from there we took a bus out of the city to a little town called tixkokob. it is known for all the hammacas that are made there. so we ventured into town and met a resedent that took us home with him and i got to learn the basics of making a yucatan hammock and had the opportunity weave a ... read more

Hola Amigos! What can I say, it was the Carribean........... Absolutely gorgeous! The water was pure, turquois and very very warm........The sand was a pure white....... and the sunrises were brilliant! My tan happened by itself, I took it slow and put plenty of sunscreen on every day... just to be on the safe side. Just a couple of hundred meters away from my beach cabana there was an old Mayan city in ruins, perched on the cliff, overlooking the ocean. I shared this beatiful spot with very few tourists and spent the entire time contemplating life and beauty......... and reading lots. I think the pictures tell the tale better than I can. I met the odd tourist passing through for a day or so, but definitely I became part of the furniture here...... I spent ... read more

We´re slightly behind with our diaries, but then we have been moving fast in the past week and seen so much!! It´s definitely time to update... We arrived in Merida during the hot midday and right in the south of town. The hostel we had heard about was in the north so quite a trek through the busy city. There were posters everywhere saying there´s a new hostel $4 per person and it was on our way so we thought we might as well check it out. And Krista was near to fainting so we needed a stop anyway. It was very central but a sweaty old man asked us what we wanted, I caught a glimpse of the bunk beds (and the sweaty old man offered us a matrimonial bed again...) - therefore, we quickly ... read more