Travelling through Mexico

Puerto Escodido

We eventually arrived at the Pacific Coast of Meico, at Puerto Escondido, after a 17 hour bus journey. It was adviertised as 7 hours but took us round half of mexico before finally dropping us off. Stayed in a really nice hostel and basically spend two days lying on the beach. Both of us got burnt. Did a bit of bodyboarding. Getting into the whole Mexican spirit of things, eating tacos, burritos, fajitas, enchilladas, all with plenty jalapeños, all washed down with litres of cerveza.

San Cristobal de las Casas

Another lengthy bus journey up into the mountains to this place This time the bus broke down and the driver and his pal spent about 3 hours fannying about banning the side of the bus while we all sat in the road in the middle of the night. Eventually got to Sn Cristobal, which is a colonil town, and realy just a stop off before the next place. We stayed in another nice hostel, where a bunch of old American hippies were hanging about. Atmosphere was nice and relaxed....until me and Jeny pitched up after a nice meal for valentines day and a few refreshments, at about 1am. Seems there was a curfew that we didn´t know about and had to ring the bell a few times to get in, then one of the other residents stormed off to another dorm when Jenny´s phone went off. Got a bit of a cold goodbye and don´t think we're welcome back. Anywho....

Palenque

In Palenque at the moment. This is further North and right in the thick of the jungle. There are amazing Mayan Ruins that we went to see today. Palenque the town is not up to much but the ruins are great. It was chucking it down with rain but was probably better that way as it added to the experience. The ruins are surrounded by jungle and the clouds were really low and we had our ponchos on looking like numpties.

Trying to decide now whether to head down south into Guatemala, or carry on in the direction that we are headed inot Norther Guatemala and onto Belize.....Decisions, decisions........