Bienvenidos a Mexico

As the sun goes down on the end of my first day riding in Mexico, I am just picking my way through the outskirts of Comitan de Dominguez. I stop and this statue of an Aztec Sun god having a bad hair day meets my gaze with penetrating rays of golden light. The secrets of an ancient culture are revealed, if only for a fleeting moment. Bienvenidos a Mexico. Push on.

San Carlos (Costa Rica) Comitan de Dominguez (Mexico)

January 31st 2007
Huehuetenango sounds like an Abba song. It is a town in western Guatemala. I arrive after three days of crawling up and down a rugged mountain range known as the Sierra de Los Cuchumaines. In those three days I have only travelled 160 km but it has been hard work. Although most of the road has just been paved the gradients are the steepest I have ridden so far on my trip. Guatemalan civil enginee ... read more

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » San Cristobal de las Casas

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more

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