After arriving in San Cristobal in the early hours and being lucky enough to find our rooms ready, I signed up for an excursion to Sumidero Canyon after breakfast. After a decent bus ride we boarded fiberglass open boats in uncomfortable life jackets and set off up river. Along the…
Central America
oh oh Oaxaca
/ 29/01/2013Oaxaca is an old city, complete with cobblestone streets, glorious churches built over ancient Mayan temples by the Spanish, numerous mescalarias, awesome rabbit warren markets, hordes of tourists and hawkers and nightclubs that give you hangovers. Casa Arnel was our base…lovely setting but what hotel doesn’t put room numbers on…
are you ready to rumble?
/ 23/01/2013Puebla is reached after a couple of hours on a bus out of Mexico City past fields and under a little less smog than the capital. A stroll through the nearly 500 year old settlement took us past flat walled buildings rising straight up from the footpath with tiny balconies,…
south of the border
/ 23/01/2013After the relaxed pace of my previous few weeks, cruising through the streets from airport to hotel in Mexico City was a challenge to take everything in. Despite a population hovering around 26 million, it actually didn’t feel crowded to me, the wide streets, footpaths, parks and urban sprawl seem…