Happy New Year to you all!! Christmas has been wonderful in the Yucatan region of Mexico. As it wasn´t possible to spend Christmas with our families, this has been a good second best. Many other travellers that we have met were surprised that we´d decided to spend Christmas in Cancun, given its reputation for expense, drunken night clubs and high rise hotels. We missed out the hotel zone completely and stayed in a small hostel / hotel run by a very f...

San Cristobel is very famous for its markets, traditional goods and the culture of the local people. We visited 2 villages outside San Cristobel, eager to learn from a local about the ways of life of the people. Many are still living fairly ´traditional´ lives in adobe houses, they have Mayan crosses outside their houses which are the centre of their family life. The medicine often involves the old wise people of the village, herbs and sometimes c...

More beautiful beaches, more heat, and lots more insects. We had an interesting journey from Puerto. We travelled by local bus to Pochula, a journey of only one hour. We then took a camionette to Puerto Angel on the coast. A camionette is a pick-up type jeep, which farmers might use in the UK to transport sheep between fields. In this area the driver puts a tarp over the back and passengers pay to sit or crouch in the back. Needless to say the roads are pretty bu...

Paradise. Our time in Puerto Escondido could not have been better. Such a rich mixture of wonderful experiences. When we return home we´ll be able to add photos of us releasing baby turtles into the Pacific Ocean...the rich foliage of the tropics in the aftermath of the rainy season, and sandy beaches and warm sea that just seem so far removed from an English winter. We were so lucky to meet M and S in Creel, and they offered if we were passing that we stay ...

The bus from Mexico City took us back to the coast and to Acapulco. What a relief to leave Mexico City. Over the last hour the heat was building...The air conditioning was clearly broken. That was our belief until we stepped off the bus, to be greeted by an even greater blast of heat from the air. We didn´t expect it, but being at sea level again, and much futher south, meant temperatures almost in excess of what we had ever experienced before. We had ...