So it seems that once I got going, I semed to be moving about quite a lot. San Cristobal de las Casas was a great stop - cute little colonial town with brightly painted buildings, an brilliant day trip to Canyon Sumidero and a poor attempt at Salsa dancing. The canyon has a river through the bottom of it, along which we sped in a boat, and saw various wildlife including herons, big black birds whose names I don't know, and crocodiles. The 2 Dutch, 10 Mexicans a...

Well, having originally planned to leave Mexico City last Friday, I ended up staying an extra 2 days, as I was enjoying myself too much to leave! Mexico City Districto Federal (or D.F. for short) is enormous. I mean, really, really enormous. One day we took a bus tour of the city which demonstrated just how large it was, we spent over 3 hours on the bus and only covered part of the city. It also became obvious that protesting seems to be comething of a nationa...

El mundo es un panuelo So the day had finally come. Probably about 12 years in the making, and certainly 12 months since the plan started looking serious, I was setting off on my Latin American advernture, starting in Mexico City. I had slight moment of panic at Manchester Airport where the automated check in machine said that there were no seats left on the Amsterdam/Mexico City flight, but what that really meant was that I couldn’t choose my seat I had to p...