After the overnight bus from Palenque I found myself in Campeche. Campeche is a strange place, unlike any of the other Mexican cities I´d been to. Apparently back in the day it was repeatedly destroyed by pirates so the city centre was walled and rebuilt. The result is a perfectly clean and uniform centre, while just metres outside the wallls its dirty, loud and like any other Mexican city. The strangest thing was that the people in the centre seemed differ...

I´d been looking forward to getting to Palenque for a while now. I´d heard a lot of good reports and it was going to be the first place in Mexico that was out in the middle of nowhere. Palenque is an ancient Mayan city deep in the jungle, not too far from the Guatemalan border. After staying only in towns and cities so far in Mexico I decidedto get back to nature and get myself a hammock in the jungle not too far from the ruins. By the look and smell of th...

San Cristobal is a beautiful little town in the mountains hust a few hours from the Guatemalan border. It is most famous for the Zapatista revolution in the 90's so I was expecting it to be pretty badass, but in actual fact it was a very chilled out town. The other thing San Cristobal is known for is Mezcal {ie, that drink with the worm in it.} Apparently tequila is just one of over 100 types of Mezcal, each made from a different species of cactii. I can spea...

The 7 hour bus journey from Teotihucan to oaxaca was taken up by a marathon game of "who can make the gammiest face" with emelio, a 6 yearold Mexican girl. Once there I wandered the streets looking for a hostel and for the first time since leaving, I really felt like I was on the road so in my excitment I started listening to jonny cash, the wanderer. So as I found a hostel and wanderer in feeling quite the traveller you can imagine my disappointment wh...

Teotihucan is just over 50km away from Mexico City, though with the traffic jams everywhere I decided to go for an early exit to beat the crowds. So it was about 7am when I turned up at the bus station and hurried to find the ticket office, which may sound fairly straight forward but the station was a complete maze. I decided it would be easier to stop and ask someone where to go but the woman just offered me some tequila, which was extremely kind I guess but n...