Blogs from Mexico, North America - page 731

Tuesday october 17th. So we ended up leaving Puerto Vallarta because there were way too many tourist and the prices were retarded. Davy was sad to leave his mariachi friend he had made the night before. I forgot to mention that Davy got to sing with a mariachi at the bar when we were drunk. We asked the local people around town about a beach near by for locals. They mentioned to go south about 5 or 6 hours to Barra de Navidad or Manzanillo but we werent up for the bus ride. A few mentioned to go north about an hour into the state of Nayarit and there we would find a beach town called Sayulita. A well known surf spot. So paid the 2 bucks and went up for an hour. Upon our arrival ... read more

14.10.06 Als ich heute morgen aufwachte, hoerte ich Regen. Und anscheinend wollte es nicht aufhoeren, bis ich endlich aus dem Hotel ging. Meine erste Tat war wieder mal Internet, um meine Reiseberichte wieder zu aktualisieren. Danach besuchte ich nochmals kurz das Zentrum und ging etwas fruehstuecken. Aber so richtig wollte ich nicht in der Stadt umherlaufen. Ich kehrte nochmals zum Ort der Klippenspringer zurueck, um mir die Landschaft bei Tageslicht anzuschauen. Ich unterhielt mich noch eine Weile mit einer aelteren Frau, dann kehrte ich ins Hotel zurueck. Ich war ziemlich nass und ueberlegte, ob ich noch eine Weile warten soll, bis der Regen etwas nachlaesst. Aber es machte alles keinen Sinn. Ich packte also nach langem wieder mal den Regenschutz fuer mein Gepaeck aus und machte mich auf den Weg zur Bushaltestelle. Der Bus fuhr mich ... read more

I had no intention of trecking all over the place today, not having slept well: dogs and sheep and fireworks and all. But then off I went in search of a public sculpture I had seen on the way in from the airport. I was lost, mostly, thinking "one more block or two." No map. Meandering. Discovered an aquaduct and ran into my first blocade. A wrecker was removing a graffiti ladened bus from blocking the street. There were also sandbags piled up and lots of wire of all sorts. Large groups of people. Quite tense. Then I ran into four more blockades, intact with banners and posters. People waiting and watching. I did at last find the sculpture: the bust of an Indian woman, who no one could identify and with no plack (but anti-Ruiz ... read more

Flying over Mexico City filled us with different emotions. We´d heard the stories of kidnappings and the fact that Mexico city has a population around 16 million meant that it is huge! We were bracing ourselves for the worst! After arrival we made our way to our hostel, right on the central square wih the parlament building and the cathedral by taxi without incident. The city has a busy but relaxed feel to it and actually felt rather fun and not intimidating, although the driving rivals any of the thrills available at Alton Towers. Our first week in Mexico has been something of a blur - having travelled over 2300 miles in the US in 9 days we were already tired and a little short of sleep but we managed to see quite a bit of ... read more

well copper canyon was basically the most beautiful thing i´ve 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 week probably and leave a link on here so you guys can check them out. Anyways, so we left last WEdnesday night from MAzatlan on a bus to Los Mochis at 10pm. But before that, i went and picked up Cam and we went to Laura and Maui (the finnish girls) house to get them. We decided that in order to sleep on the ... read more