Palenque

Well we kissed goodbye to cool mountain air of San Cristobal for the steamy lowlands palenque, where everyday seems to end in a storm. Instead of making things fresher it just seems to make it more humid. Ruins: I´d wanted to go to the Palenque ruins for years and I finally got my dream. But [...]

San cristobal de las casas

      From the steamy coast pueblitos of Puerto and Zepolite to the cold dry mountain air of San Cristobal. This is the stonge hold of the Zapatistas. There were signs of them everywhere. Little girls in the street selling dolls of Zapatistas for $5mx. How could I say no. Stencilling is in full [...]

Naked on Zipolite

Zipolite gets a small mention in lonely planet but this place is a little gem. Craig came here about 10 years ago and by looks of it there has been some development since then. But as this place was hit by the hurricane, it is rough around the edges and still has a chilled, “hippie” [...]

Quemadura y picaduras

Since arriving in Mexico city I´ve been bitten almost every day by some mosquito or other. And at the time of writing I´ve got a large bite oozing puss. Despite this I´ve only actually seen, I guess less than 10. Several of which I killed. I don´t know when I was bitten either. When do [...]

Puerto Escondido o puerto

Puerto escondido in the light of day is everything I thought it would be and everything I imagined from talking to people who´ve been here. We had a choice of going for a cheap option on accommodation or spending a bit more for a kitchen and fridge. I´m glad we did go for the later [...]

Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido

  For this part of the trip we had two options. 1st class bus costing $240mx and a 10 hour journey or second class bus costing $100 mx and a 7 hour journey with a more direct route. Any traveller with a sense of adventure would choose the second class option and that´s what we [...]

Michalada oaxacaña

Up until now all the michaladas I`ve been having, hang on, I need to say what one is. All the michaladas I`ve had up until now have been lime juice with ice and salt, with a beer. Not so here I just ordered one and it was with chili as we, and not just a [...]

Lucha libre

What´s lucha libre? Think American style wrestling but with a Latino Machismo and jalapeños and you´re almost there. We could have gone on an organised trip but that´s not me. So we went to the “Taquilla” ticket office at the arena. That turned in to an experience in its self. There were loads of touts [...]

Mexico city

I´ve been to Mexico twice before and in my quite recent past. I thought that I would not be shocked by it when I arrived. I guess I´ve been living in London too long. This is the story. We arrived at Mexico city airport and we got on the metro to get into the centre [...]