Belize City Arrived late in Belize City and got a cab to an ATM since we had no Belizean currency. The first ATM rejected our cards - uh oh - but luckily the second one we tried worked OK. The hotel we had decided to stay at had been shut down so once again we relied on Lonely Planet's second choice called "The North Front Street Guest House". When we saw it we were reminded more of a seedy brothel than a hotel. Oh well. Taxi driver ripped us off a...

Tulum Cabaña Fever We arrived in Tulum on Wednesday 22nd November about 11am. From Tulum Town Centre we got a taxi (fixed price, thankfully) to the beach area which extended for about 9 miles and is covered in cabañas and resorts. We got dropped off at Lonely Planet´s recommended Don Armando´s, but name had changed and they were now triple the price quoted in LP!! Shocker! So we heaved our bags on and took a walk. We came across LP'...

Chasing Ann Arrived at Cancún in the morning following a bus journey with Ann and Ann’s friend and tried to find our hostel on foot. This was a bad idea. Spent ages wandering round in circles on Xel-Ha road, which we could never seem to get off! Eventually found it after finally resorting to a taxi. We were shown to our room – meant to be a private room with shared bathroom, turned out to be a HUGE private room (two double beds and a queen size...

My Name is Wendy! Arrived in Valladolid at around 8:30am, having changed buses in Merida with a short 1 hour wait from 5:30am to 6:30am and found a little restaurant so that we could orientate ourselves and eat some more snacks. Got some weird directions from asking a man in the restaurant and he spieled out a load of numbers (in spanish), which we ignored and just followed an arm direction. Then nodded and said "Si!". Needless to say we got a wee bit ...

Raks***a´s Revenge We arrived in Palenque on the overnight bus from Mexico City at 8.30 am and, after a cup of coffee that tasted coffee-free (yes that´s coffee not caffeine), caught a ´collectivo´ (a small rickety minibus with doors that didn´t close) that took us to a small jungle area with accommodation about 4.5km out of town called El Panchan. So hot and humid and no breeze. We had read about a place called Raks***a´s &nd...