Hola todos ! Here I am, ecuador baby ! I left Cancun yesterday morning, flew to Houston, got angry with the immigration (the guy was soooo angry after me because I did not fill in correctly and I replied it was not clear, he was ready to let me outside US...but eventually I went through the control), flew to Quito and arrived around 10.30pm local time. As you heard so many stories about safety in Ecuaor, I decide to take an "official taxi" at the counter. 9USD. Then once in the taxi, the guy asked me 8USD. I said I won´t pay because I already did it. Started the argument: he wants to drive me back to the airport, strangely don´t understand any english or my best will in spanish. Well, I agreed to give him ... read more

Hola amigos ! After several hours of discussion between me and myself, we, I mean I decided to go to Chichen Itza. Despite being ultra touristic, you can´t miss that when you are in Yucatan. Right, folks ? So to make sure it won´t be a bad experience, I carefully chose my travel agency to avoid the big bus over-crowded of 50+ people. I selected Infotours, 5USD more expensive that other offers, but at least it was a Minivan with 10 people only: 4 polish, 3 germans, 2 chilians and me ! It reminds me the crew of the sailing weeks in Greece.... So, departure at 7.30 for Chichen Itza. For the little story, I thought until last week it was ChicKen Itza. And I didnt understand why people couldnt understand me about it ("But you ... read more

On the 22nd I arrived in Playa del Carmen (or so-called "Playa"). After a nice 12h bus trip, I reached the bus station. As usual, no booking. Let´s see and find a nice place to stay over. Well, the 1st impression of "Playa" is just: "Oh sh!t, it is just awful!" Not awful in the way it is ugly (although there is nothing specially beautiful here, except the girl seating next to me in the cyber-café right now), but it is soooooooooooooo american. Everything is organized around a street, the "5th street", parallel to the sea. Long for maybe 2 to 3 km. It is just super-hyper-mega-ultra (I am out of superlative, pls help me !) touristic !. Prices are in USD, you get harrased by people asking you for tours, massages, cigars, weed, name it ... read more

Ola todos ! Aujourd´hui je suis a Cristobal de las Casas. En fair depuis hier. Je suis arrive vers 7h du matin, apres 12h de bus. Un voyage plutot sympathique, mene tambour battant par le chauffeur (un familier de Fangio je pense) sur des routes de qualite mediocre. Enfin j ai pu dormir par intermittance. C est surtout que les medocs ont fait effet, et je me sens beaucoup mieux. San Cristobasl est tout simplement magique. Ville carrefour des civilisations du Chiapas, elle attire a la fois toute une foule de voyageurs de tout pays et des locaux des collines avoisinantes. C est une ville tres boheme, ou le temps s est arrete. Niche entre les collines boisees et brumeuses, faite de rues perpendiculaires aux maisons basses aux couleurs chatoyantes (je m entraine pour le goncourt), ... read more

Vous aurez reconnu derriere ce detournement de titre le fameux succes d Annie Cordy. Mais pourquoi ? Non parce que la Belgique me manque a ce point que je sollicite la memoire de ses plus eminents sujets, mais parce que OAXACA a pour specialite, entre autre, le chocolat. Apres un reveil plutot difficile a 4h30, je prends le bus pour Mexico, Terminal Norte, puis un taxi pour l aeroport d ou je vais prendre l avion pour Oaxaca. Un mal au bide insoutenable m accompagne, et c est donc avec determination que je me decide a appeler Aurelien pour ses genereux conseils. Je vous grace des details, de ma nouvelle amitie profonde avec le Jacob Delafon local, et de ma capacite a battre Misou Mizou. Bref, j arrive a Oaxaca, oblige a prendre un taxi local ... read more