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18 August 2011
Many travellers try to do everything themselves. I take a balanced approach … today’s excursion to Chichen Itza cost MXP350 (NZD35) which sounds expensive. It would have cost MXP240 do it by public transport. The difference is easily justified by the inclusions (eg. big buffet lunch, good guide, transport to a swimming hole) and of […]
17 August 2011
We arrived in Merida late yesterday afternoon after an all-day bus ride from Villahermosa, departing at 0750 and getting here at 1625. There isn’t actually that much to see in Merida itself but the atmosphere is lovely. We devoted the day to relaxing and absorbing the ambience. We took a peek at the cathedral and […]
15 August 2011
Villahermosa isn’t a touristy place but more of an oil city. It is quite nice to be in a place where locals are being themselves … actually none of our previous cities are dominated by tourism, but this is even less touristy. Because it is less touristy, we had trouble changing money at the bank. They […]
14 August 2011
Today’s the hardest day in our Mexican adventure, in terms of road travel anyway. It was a 13h scheduled ride from Oaxaca at 0900 to Villhermosa, arriving at 2200. Fortunately it was a very comfortable bus, again with Grupo ADO. The alternative was a 6h journey bus-ride (or short flight) to Mexico City to connect […]
13 August 2011
We toured the countryside today through a travel agent as it would be impossible to cover so much ground in one day by public transport. And it wasn’t expensive at about MXP200 (about EUR10) for 9 hours excluding admission tickets and lunch. First stop was the town of Tule to see the fattest tree in […]
12 August 2011
Today we opted not to visit Monte Alban near here … they’re ruins of pyramids. Having just seen Teotihuacan and also going to others later, I thought it would be “too much”. Instead we’d do some things around town today and do a non-pyramidal excursion out of town tomorrow. It proved to be the right […]
11 August 2011
Mexico’s highly-dangerous Taxi Libre We needed to get to the long-distance bus terminal and didn’t feel like negotiating the steps with our luggage. The alternative was to go by taxi. Radio-taxis ordered by the hotel are very expensive (about EUR5 for a little bit around the corner). So we decided to hail a taxi libre […]
10 August 2011
Because a couple of museums/sights were closed two days ago (Monday), we had quite a bit we wanted to do today in the megacity. I didn’t think we could do it all. I wanted to go to have a ride around town, go see the ruins at Templo Mayor, see the Palacio Nacional and cruise […]
9 August 2011
The pyramids at Teotihuacan are only an hour away from Mexico City. It comprises two big ones built in 100 and 300 AD, and several small ones. The Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan is in fact the third largest in the world after Egypt’s Cheops pyramid and another one in Mexico. We met a lovely bunch […]
8 August 2011
Around the Megacity We were very centrally located in Mexico City, only two blocks behind the cathedral. It could be jet lag, or it could be the slight altitude of Mexico City … but we were both shattered today. All we did were a couple of walks to the cathedral and around the streets of […]