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........

Arrived in Mexico City on 9th Febraury and ldft the next day. Mexico city is massive and busy, but there wasn't that much worth seeing. Went on one of the turist buses, which was meant to take 2 and half hours and it ended up taking more like 4. Spent most of the time in traffic and on the bottom deck becaus it was pissing with rain. Jenny was most unimpressed with the whole experience. Main square in the main square was impressive and the hostel that we stayed at was ok. Corona is served in Mexico by the litre bottle for about a pound 20 which is keeping me amused.

We go the bus down to puerto escondido on the pacific coust on the 10th febraury and have spent the last couple of days here. The bus down here was advertised as taking 7 hours but actually took 17, which was fun. Unfortunately they didn't serve corona on the bus so I was as unamused as Jenny at this. Bus was first class tho, so comfy seats and 3 movies.

Puerto Escondido is really nice. About 30 degrees today and blue sky. Really nice beaches. Spent most of yesterday boogieboarding. Nic and relaxing. Heading down to San Cristobal de las casas tonight on an overnight bus, this one is advertised as 12 hours, so who knows when we'll arrive. Will try to update this at some point in the next week or so.