Everybody goes surfing in Puerto Escondido!
On our route Puerto Escondido was actually due two weeks ago, after San Cristóbal de las Casas . Back then the holiday week before Easter (Semana …
Mexico
Loud, louder, Mexico City: welcome to the biggest city in the world!
A short bus ride from Puebla lies Mexico City - according to the latest statistics the most populous city in the world. At the same time I had read …
Mexico: Grasshopper tasting in Oaxaca and spotting El Popo in Puebla
After a long 12-hour overnight journey we arrived early in the morning in Oaxaca de Juárez, capital of the state of Oaxaca. If we have any choice in …
Mexico: Palenque and San Cristóbal in beautiful Chiapas
You might think we travel deliberately so that the thermometer shows a few degrees more at every new destination: Cancun and Holbox: 28 degrees Playa …
Mexico: Mérida and Campeche
While I had taken Valladolid to my heart at first sight, the exact opposite happened with my first impression of Mérida: loud, crowded, relentless …
Mexico: Maya ruins and cenotes around Valladolid
Valladolid, with its colonial-town charm, was likeable to me at first sight. We had really only taken up quarters here because the town is the perfect …
Mexico: from Tulum via Cobá to Valladolid
I got to spend my birthday in Tulum! After Cancún and Playa del Carmen, Tulum is probably the third most touristy place in Mexico, but the hotel strip …
Mexico: Playa del Carmen
And once again we stayed longer in one place than planned - if this carries on, we will still be in Mexico in two months. Like Cancún, Playa del …
Mexico: Are we still on Isla Holbox or already in paradise?
Early in the morning we took the bus three hours from Cancún to the small harbour village of Chiquilá, from where you cross to Isla Holbox. Slightly …
Mexico: Cancún & Isla Mujeres
Goodbye New Zealand! ¡Hola México! Our flight left Christchurch at 7 am. At 4:30 pm the same day we landed in Cancún. Between the two lay 27 hours of …