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Palenque

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

After a mad week in Mexico City, meeting loads of nice people at Hostel Amigo, I´ve now found myself one week into a two week tourist trip across Mexico. This is not how I intended to travel and can only be attributed to not reading the brochure properly(!), but despite the stupid big yellow bus and being lead round by the nose in a large group the people on the whole are really nice and we´ve covered a lot of ground.

The main itinierary has gone something like this:
Mexico City
Teotihuacan (pyramids of the Sun and Moon)
Puebla
Oaxaca
Monte Alban (ruins)
Tehuantepec
San Cristobal de la Casas
Agua Azul (Blue Water waterfalls)
Palenque (town and ruins)

Palenque Ruins
Palenque Ruins

Of all of these places San Cristobal has so far been the stand out place for me, and definitely one that I´ll return to should I come back this way after the tour.

At present the plan is to end the tour in Merida (not Cancun due to hurricane Wilma) and get a bus down to Belize with a couple of the guys on the tour. I will continue this nonsense when my brain’s awake and add some commentary about my travels, for now I´m just trying to keep a record of what I´ve done.

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A week in Mexico City

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

I thought I’d only stay in the bewildering metropolis that is Big Bad Mexico City for a couple nights, prefering to escape for most of the week to a nearby place more chilled. However the fear subsides after a night or two and the madness of the place becomes quite infectious. I ended up loving the city and moved round the corner from my hotel into Hostel Amigo, where I’d been hanging out each evening meeting other backpackers at their bar.

Discovering the hostel was the best piece of luck I could have had as I finished a week in the city armed with more good info and advice than Lonely Planet can provide, and lots of nice people that I’ve met that I hope to meet up with again at some point.

The Streets of Mexico City
The mean streets of Mexico City

Walking the streets of the city was enough to amuse me for some time, it has that hectic market place feel of Glastonbury festival. Despite that I did manage to take in a few sites as well including the Anthropology museum, Frieda Kahlo’s house/museum, checked out Trotskys’ pad (bit of a luxury fortress for a ‘man of the people’ though he had good reason which the ice pick in the back of the head proved), and took in the views of the city from it’s tallest building, the Latino Americano skyscraper – what a good little tourist I am.

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First night in Mexico City

Sunday, October 16th, 2005
I got in on the saturday night after very little sleep, found a good hotel easily enough and went out to get a bottle of water. I met an aussie guy on the street round the corner who took me ... [Continue reading this entry]

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