Blogs from Mexico, North America - page 2

Day at sea Friday, April 26th, 2013break in our room and we will go to the Lido for b Usual coffee and orange juice delivered by Terry to my bed at 7:30 Tai Chi at 8 Aquafit at 9 Port talk at 10 about our next 2 ports: Manzinillo and Puerto Vallarta. Exploration speakers at 11, part 1 of 6, today about square riggers I had to leave early as the Capitain, check his blog: Captain Albert’s blog, was having a brunch for the Mariners (people who have sailed with Holland America before). We were given ceramic tiles of our class of ship as a souvenir and champagne with a lovely 4-course luncheon. Team trivia at 1, we lost with 10 points, the winners beat us by ½ a point I read this afternoon and swam ... read more

Hi! This is my first entry in this blog! lets start: So, last weekend I went to Mexico city to see some friends and, since I had a whole day for me, I decided to take the subay to Mexico City's "centro historico". As always, the experience was great, even if the weather was horrible, we got to see the aztec ruins of "templo mayor" and walk all the way from zocalo to the Latinoamerican tower. BUT by far the best part of the visit was the concert in the zocalo, I even got some video of the whole experience for my Vlog, which I add below. I hope you like it, sometimes I will only write my travels and sometimes I will be adding the videos I make during these travels! ... read more

We flew in to Cancun from Cuba in the early afternoon, and waited for the express ADO bus to Tulum. The bus ride took just over 2 hours, stopping at playa del Carmen along the way. We arrived at the ADO bus station in down town Tulum. I knew our hostel was a little out of town so we decided to eat before heading up. We found a cheap looking local place across the road and pulled up a seat. We ordered tacos and some salbutes along with a fresh green juice. The juice was huge and the tacos the best we had eaten and super cheap at roughly 80 cents each. We ordered a few more we were so impressed and payed a total of $6 before dragging our bags to a cab. It cost ... read more

After the excitement of my organised tour which took me through the south of Peru, Machu Pichu and the Amazon and eventually to Lima, I had a couple of weeks to see Ecuador and Mexico before I headed home. I flew into Guayaquil, Ecuador not really sure of what to expect. It's mainly a big industrial town where not many tourists go to, however there are still some very impressive monuments there near the river and one particular park where many iguanas live. I also met up with an Ecuadorian who I had met on a language who showed me some of these sites. The main highlights of Ecuador were the nice little town of Cuenca in the south and an even smaller town further north called Baños in the north, just off the road to ... read more

Puerto Chiapas, Mexico Wednesday, April 23rd, 2013 This might be a “ cruise ship made up area” where we dock at a pool, shop and bar area, made up for cruise passengers away from the real Mexican people. This is the fourth coffee port: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico. There might be some “authentic” jade pieces to! or silver and opal. Terry purchased his trip hat, he is happy. We swam in the warm pool beside the ship and we are relaxing for our long walk (1 ½ Km) from Huatulco to St-Cucecita tomorrow ttys... read more

On our third day in cancun we woke to cloudy skies, though still hot we decided to take it easy today and head to plaza las Americas, a large local mall. So after another large fruit based breakfast we caught another bus to the mall. We were surprised at just how large the mall is when you start to explore it, and were pleased to find that it was aimed more at locals rather than tourists like the ones the previous day. We found the everyday shops the most interesting such as 'Chedraui' . Almost like a mexican version of wallmart it was ginormous! it included a fresh food section, bakery, groceries, furniture, electronics and clothes. Pretty much anything you wanted. I found the fresh cactus being despiked and cut into cubes for sale interesting. We ... read more