Blogs from Mexico, North America - page 645

Since I didn't convince Manoli to do another tour, the ruins of Uxmal, today was pretty much a chill and do nothing day. First we went further downtown to the main market, where they had dozens and dozens of booths selling meat, fruit, vegetables, handicrafts and anything else you can imagine. Next, we decided to head uptown to the ritzy district and check out the local Wal-Mart. Very different in both appearance and products from the stores back in the U.S. We bought a bunch of local fruit; papaya, mango, watermelon, cantelope, oranges, pineapple, and a strange guanabana. We also got two types of local cheeses and bread. The manchego cheese was almost goopy by the time we returned to the hostel and the gonela or somesuch as very sharp and pretty much inedible. We ... read more

OK, I've combined a few days here, as they were a fairly quiet few days... Sunday 1 July 2007 - Cancun and Playa del Carmen Today we took a local bus about 60kms to the local tourist spot of Playa del Carmen, which turned out to be a gorgeous spot. Right on the Caribbean (baby!) with the most gorgeous blue waters I've seen in a long time, plus a white sandy beach. Just heavenly. Except for the heat and humidity, of course!!! It really was unbearably hot, with even Toni saying that it was hot and thats really saying something. Despite the heat, we had a good few hours of shopping, with lunch thrown in. I think I bought the most I've bought so far. A new skirt, new swimmers (bathers, togs, etc!), a singlet ... read more

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La Paz, BCS, Mexico … June 28, 2007 Stepped off the 50 passenger plane and was assailed by 38 degrees Celsius! Talk about stepping into an oven… THIS was it! Have now endured heat, cold, wind and wet. What else is there? Bring it on!! I suppose landslide, earthquake and volcanic eruption are possible … but how likely? Met a woman who owns a house near La Paz. She gave me a map of the city. That made landing and getting to downtown much less stressful. I always like to have a map…then I know where I am!! The airport is somewhat out of town and ‘un taxi collectivo’ cost $15US. A regular taxi would have cost $28. The only travel agent I could find was nice enough to phone the Hotel Yeneka for me ... read more

Hi All We have moved on from Mexico city to a place called Oaxaca, its a bit more chilled out and we are spending a few days here relaxing until we move on at great speed over a large distance. we arrived here easily enough having negotiated the subway to get to the bus station in mexico city how ever once we had been dropped of at the terminal we realised that we had no idea where the hostel was. We hoisted on our rucksacks and set of walking reasured by a local policeman that it wasnt far. Half an hour later under the burning sun with heavy backpacks we arrived at the hostel. As you can imagin the first thing i did was grab a beer, the second thing was jump in the pool, ... read more