Chiapas - San Cristóbal de las Casas

We have covered three Mexican states by bus in six hours: Campeche, Tabasco and Chiapas.  The road has been mountainous and windy all  the way, and what's more, at times there wasn't any road at all, due to the landslides caused by heavy rainfalls some months ago. We pretended to be asleep...

Chiapas, Palenque - the Maya Ruins

We are already in the state of Chiapas, in the town of Palenque. "Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 AD. After its decline it was absorbed into the jungle, which is made up of c...

On the formal

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Yucatan, Capmpeche - a town full of charm

This time we are in Campeche right on the Mexican Gulf. Campeche is a wonderful city (population of 300 000 but it the impression of a much smaller place); within its walls lie sleepy (no longer) cobbled streets lined with the brightly colored houses that are so typical of Mexico. Tourism ...

Flamingoes photo safari

This time the coach was a bit less comfortable. We took a local bus to go to the ocean coast to see flamingoes in a hudge natural park. 'Celestún is a town in Yucatán, Mexico. It is located on the Gulf of Mexico.Parque Natural del Flamenco Mexicano (also known as the "Celestun Biosphere Re...

Mexico - Mérida

A very comfortable coach of the ADO company (much more leg space than in any aircraft in the economy class) brought us here to Mérida. It's almost 500 km from Cancún.  The capital of Yucatan - Mérida, visited by us at night, glitters with lights  and first of all with public entertainme...

Cancún Yucatan - Chichén Itzá

US Airways took us to Mexico form San Jose, California via Phoenic, Arizona. We have arrived in Cancún and found out that this place, with its hudge hotel neighbourhood by the ocean, doesn't have much to offer for us except full day trips into Yucatán, to the Mayas' cities. Today we have s...
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