So I arrived in El Panchan yesterday- Tuesday 25th March. From San Cristobal, me and Kaisa took a tour that took us to the waterfalls of Agua Azul and Misol Ha and then the Palenque ruins. Instead of then returning to San Cristobal we were dropped off at El Panchan, a quirky little place where travellers hang out on the road to the ruins. The tour was good but tough going. When the day started the weather looked awful, really foggy and that misty rain was persi...

I arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas early on Sunday 23rd March and left early on Tuesday 25th March. The bus journey from Oaxaca to San Cristobal was 11 hours and we all got thrown around a lot on roads that twisted and turned. I had picked a seat at the front of the bus but ended up moving to the back where I got chatting to a couple of guys that had just started their trip. I've found since Mexico City that I'm starting to find people that are travelling fo...

So my stay in Oaxaca was brief but busy. I arrived on Friday 21st March at 6am after a 6.5 hour journey and left on another night bus at 9pm Saturday 22nd March 2008. Despite the fact that I arrived at a hostel on Good Friday with no reservation, I got a bed straight away at my first choice of hostel. It was another really nice place, and the lockers here even had key locks. Very upmarket. I was in a girls only dorm and climbed (top bunk) straight into bed. When...

Unsurprisingly I ended up staying in Mexico City longer than planned- arriving late afternoon on Friday 14th March and leaving on a night bus on Thursday 20th March 2008. So many travellers say they look forward to getting out of the cities, but I love them. There's always something going on and there's plenty of other travellers to meet which is good for me on my lonesome. Mexico City is huge, apparently in competition with Tokyo for the title of the largest cit...

My reason for visiting Angangueo was to visit the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary nearby and so I only stayed here for two nights- Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th March 2008. Wednesday was pretty much just a day spent on 3 buses. I caught the first bus to Morelia at 8.10am, then within 30 minutes I was on the next bus to San Felipe, and another 10 minutes later i was in a collectivo headed for Angangueo where I arrived around 3.45pm, knackered. The buses here are ...