Day 13 - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Like sleep deprived zombies yours truly and the better half awoke to the strains of my mobile phone alarm yelling Get Up. We packed on autopilot neither of us having seen 5am for a long time somehow we were ready for pickup time waiting expectantly for our driver plus van to arrive. Having being primed with some key Spanish words to explain Nik's hatred of minibuses and need to sit near the front; I sat muttering to myself ...

The Night Bus onto the indigenous town of Santo de las Cristobal in the state of Chiapas! The next day after another square circuit, a sample of the food market laden with fly covered meat of all varieties swinging in the heat and a very bad smell, we managed to skype home, and then caught a taxi to the local bus station, ready to board for the short trip to the city of 'Juchitan.' Here was where we saw the 'high pressure sales women techniques' so familiar to th...

Day 9 - More historic Oaxaca sights, then onto 'Tehuantepec' in the narrowest part of Mexico! Awaking, trying not to electrocute ourselves by charging the camera in the shower (the only place a plug was!), we set off to view some more ancient sights around the city. The massive 17th century 'Basilica de La Soledad' was stunning inside with a gold interior, then completely (even though I am not religious); taking my breath away was the inside of the church of 'San...

Day 7 & 8- The Unesco World Heritage City of Oaxaca & more ancient pyramids and tombs! Today on our 200th day of travelling (Bl***y H***!!) we headed further east on a 4.5 hour journey to the world heritage city of Oaxaca and again the transport just got better - this beast was top notch, even had seats at an angle so that everyone could see ahead of them, and this wasn't even first class, it was like being in an airplane(not that that helps me though)! M...

DAY 6 - Route East to Mexico's famous city of Puebla! The doctor wasn't wrong when he said the antibiotics were the best you could get and worked immediately, feeling weary but a lot better we decided to chance our luck and catch the bus to Pueblo! Called the 'City of Angels,' Puebla is one of Mexico's most famous cities within this state due to its colonial architecture and facades of Talavera tiles plus 365 churches, one for each day apparently! Looks like we w...