http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Sinaloa en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:06:17 BST Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:06:17 BST An appropriate theme for our honeymoon would definitely be Mule or ldquodonkey.rdquo In Mazatlan we took a ferry to a small island off the coast and stayed at a beach for the day. It was a bit overcast but interesting nonetheless. We spent most of the day lounging by the shore. After lunch we did the next most obvious thinghellip we took a short excursion riding more donkeys around the i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-306051.html The railway trip from Creel to Los Mochis was absolutely fantastic. OK so its not the Grand Canyon but I am happy to say that this time I wasnt feeling under the weather and I was able to appreciate every moment of it. Like the Grand Canyon though it was overwhelmingly beautiful and travelling by rail was a wonderful way to fully appreciate the changes in the scenery as we descended from 2500 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Los-Mochis/blog-291219.html It was an icy cold morning as we boarded the firt class Copper Canyon train. The conductors were beautifully dressed with the traditional square hats. We found ourselves seated in the emergency seats on the left side of the train. We had asked for the left side for the best view when we booked but thought we only got right side seats so were pleasantly surprised. Opposite us were a Mexican coupl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Los-Mochis/blog-289161.html Awww driving to Mexico...Ok I confess part of the reason for me to travel to Mexico by car was to save money so that I could spend more when I got there. Also I didn't have to rent a car and I still had my vehicle to haul all my goodies back. LOLSome of the reasons why people don't drive areLanguage barrierKilometers vs. MilesThinking that all of Mexico must look like Tijauna Nogales http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-278157.html Leaving Thailand was hard hellip. but preparing for Mazatlan compensated Our flight back to LA from Bangkok was uneventful. It was the shortest time we had ever spent in total hours to or from Bangkok hellip.. 19 hours The worst part was getting back into the USA with the LOOOOONG lines at the customs entry. You hear the Americans often complaining about the long waits at the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-258687.html Hola Amigos...Long time no update. I promise to back date things and catch up but so far so good. Made it to Matzatlan today via a ferry from the mainland. The ride over here was almost 20 hours and smelled of diesel exhaust the whole way. I saw the lunar eclipse from a really cool free camping beach near the ferry in LaPaz a few nights ago. A german guy got his rental car stuck and told us all a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-249381.html Sometimes the best laid plans... well I forget how that saying ends.Instead of travelling to the shrimp rich isle Mexiclatin we instead chose to drive to San Blas.A little bit of paradise especially if you are a surfer. We are currently camping at Stoners Surf Camp right on the beach for 3 bucks a night and we get to use their kitchen and shitter. As far as I can tell the staff consists of an o http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/blog-240426.html I may have found hope for all of you baseball starved and freezing fanatics. The mexican pacific coast league season starts in late october ends in late febraury. We went last night and it game three of a playoff series we paid 6 bucks for good seats and and drank beers for a 1.50 hotdogs for a buck and huge bags of peanuts for .50. The game and the fans were excellent. Like in the old sch http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-239699.html Hey all Went to Mazatlan Mexico over the summer this year for 5 days off this killer deal we scored. it ended up being 343 a person for 5 nights at playa del mazatlan including airfare. for that price i'll go nearly anywhere We opted to take the shuttle from the airport which ended up being like 6 bucks each and very cramped and super hot. it was like a 25 minute ride apprx and everybody was sw http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-232967.html My photos and Chris's are on facebook athttpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid9751l186adid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10166led80did708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10530l2ac8fid708372808httpwww.facebook.comalbum.phpaid10953lafa08id708372808The bussride in from the border to Nogales city limit was exhilerating. The change in atmosphere from http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/blog-220066.html I'm back in Mexico and about to embark on the Copper Canyon. It's four times bigger than the Grand Canyon and is one of the first things I researched for this trip two and half years ago. I can't believe I'm finally about to experience itI'm staying at the Plaza Inn Los Mochis. After doing a reccie of the area I realised it's basically Parramatta Road lots of car dealerships and outdated shop http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/blog-196043.html My Carnival experience improved on a random afternoon in Nassau without any warning at all. My boss happened to be in port because he was cruising with another ship and we all planned a lunch get together. Sitting down at a Chinese restaurant only staff know how to find he got right to the point I was to be pulled off the Carnival Liberty the following morning due to room space issues and bud http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-169649.html MazatlannbspNorth America raquonbspMexico raquonbspMazatlan By Traveller1April 19th 2007After taking our lives in our hands on the road from Durango we finally landed in Mazatlan. This city is on the central pacific coast of Mexico with a population of about 300000. It is a working port with mucho selection in treats from the sea. We had planned on staying awhile and then moving up http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-150412.html Spitting heat upon pale skin. Dust swirls thick and ominous like mountainous fog yet there is little silence and zero solitude unlike the celestial palaces where the cloudsrsquo nebulous movements waver. Where a hermit might dwell there doesnrsquot exist this exhaustion this thumping surge of sprawling land and sea convergence. Itrsquos bright and hot alighting the nonexistent patter http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-137916.html I've been pretty bad about writing this cruise....I've been pretty sleepy...don't know why Today we were docked in Mazatlan...and it was a pretty fabulous day. I woke up early and ate breakfast on the pool deck....some smoked salmon grilled tomatoes and fresh fruit. Then off to shore....I had looked up this horseback riding place online..it was called Ginger's Biligual Horses.....we took a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-137244.html Hello everyone Today was a pretty uneventful day. We were in Mazatlan for a few hours and then I had to get back to the ship for a frist aid training. It was a pretty basic common sense training things like...apply pressure to a wound and flush eyes with water. Anyways we got off the ship in the afternoon and headed the the beach which is called The Golden Zone....to be honest it wasn' http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-134822.html SORRY THERE ARE NOT MAPS NOT SURE WHY Wednesday February 7 2007. Todayrsquos drive involved leaving Sonora State and entering the state of Sanoloa. We expected some inspection to check our paper workmdashnothing. The guard just waved us through. After settling in El Fuerte we took off for a walk to the old town and visited the fortmuseum. This campground in El http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/El-Fuerte/blog-131891.html carnival http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-131605.html Hi FolkiesSo I just got back from Mazatlan Sinaloa where I was at the annual international world's 4th largest Carnaval I took the 9 hour bus ride on Friday night and got there Saturday morning ridiculously early. I went to Sonia's house one of the exchange students from the States and just passed out for a few more hours. Then after breakfast RosemaryCanada came over with LilianS http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-128854.html Today was our first day of exploring the strange foreign land of Mexico. As we didn't dock until 1230PM we had the morning to relax on the ship. After getting up we went straight to another dance class. This one was an introduction to the salsa. It's an awesome latin dance with an extremely simple basic step which lends itself well to lots of hip swaying and fancy improvisation. Afterwards http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-128033.html mazatlan was the last beach town we visited before heading to los mochis where we began our 16 hour copper canyon train ride. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-107556.html well i think i've cried about 50 times this week which is really lame but i'm not even exaggerating. everyone is leaving and i never thought it would be so hard. i expected the whole getting here and making new friends and not know the city and being scared and all that good stuff.....but i NEVER expected the end to be the hardest part. its so sad cause it went by so fast and i feel like i just http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-107308.html After a nice long 19 hour ferry ride in which we relaxed and had a deep informative political conversation with a young man from matazlan...we arrived in the city to engage in a delighful lunch in a mercado and refreshing afetrnoon swim in Matzalan waters...We decided to drive straight through to Guadalahara where Sam has a friend Pablo who is studying medicine and had invited us to come and st http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-107117.html Ok so i cont know how to describe this last week....especially the weekend. its been so good but in a bitterzweet way for sure because everyone is getting ready to head out and most people are actually leaving THIS friday....i never thought this day would comeANyways so last monday I went on a tour of the Cervezeria where they make the Pacifico beer which is golden. but basically the tour was http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-104985.html it appears to be time for another recap. this last week has been pretty laid back with a lot of plaza visits pools and movies...just the way i like it.Last Sunday way back in october me Emmy Antonio Lucy and Nina met in the Plaza for dinner. We tried the Mediterrarean restaurant and it was super good. afterwards we went to the cathedral for the requime of mozart....it was awesome. There wa http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-100832.html so its been a really random weekend so far and i had to write a blog so i would remember to say all the funny things that happened last night at halloween. so friday after school me jason carlos and heather went to jasons and made shrimp ceviche which is the greatest food EVER. you cut up tomatoes onions cucumbers and shrimp and then add some salt and squeeze a bunch of limon on it and then ea http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-98904.html well its been quite a week...filled with baseball and hurricanes and the beach....good stuff.So the baseball game last friday was probably one of my best nights here in mazatlan. i had sent out an email to everyone saying that some of us were planning on going and to meet at Joes at 5 if they were interested....and about 25 people showed up and everyone was wearing red and it was awesome. we al http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-98401.html well copper canyon was basically the most beautiful thing ive ever seen. But unfortunately my camera sucked and somehow randomly deleted half of my pictures most of them being of the waterfalls and canyons and really nice. so that sucked. but everyone else took so many that once i get my ass in gear and get them from everyone i will have more than enough. i will post them up sometime next w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-96516.html so far this has been a random week. our thanksgibving dinner was awesome....except for the fact the we put too much milk in the potatoes and we accidentally made the gravy with corn flour which made it really thick...so literally the potatoes were runnier than the gravy....still tasted good thouhg. and lance and laura looked EVERYWHERE for turkey but no hay so they had to to get chicken which was http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/Mazatlan/blog-94602.html