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The 4am shuttle…

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

…decided it wasn’t going to pick us up this morning to take us from Antigua. Guatemala to Copan, Honduras.  Very unkind of it, especially as it means we have to get up at 3.30am again tomorrow.  Something neither of us is looking forward to much!  Keep your fingers crossed that it works tomorrow, we are fast running out of time to get down to Costa Rica and our flight to Madrid on 11th October!

Tikal and Antigua

Friday, September 28th, 2007

After three nights in Belize we continue our whistle stop tour of Central America and head into Guatemala.  First stop Tikal, the largest set of Mayan ruins.  [read on]

San Ignacio

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
After two days of travel (flight from Cuba to Cancun and then onto Chetumal on the Mexico Belize border on day one and then from Chetumal (with a quick visit to a Mayan musuem - put all the ruins into context!) - ... [Continue reading this entry]

La Habana (or Havana to the rest of us!)

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
We didn't have very good first impressions of La Habana as it is called in Cuba. It probably didn't help that we arrived fairly late and felt like we were paying a lot of money for a hotel room and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Varadero

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Cuba hadn't originally been a place we had intended to visit, but once I'd had an email from an old school, Spanish, penfriend (Amaia) to say that her and her family were moving out there for two years it seemed silly ... [Continue reading this entry]

Tulum and around

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Tulum is supposed to be one of the places to visit in Yucatan, but not entirely sure why! The town is a bit of a dump, one long street of restaurants, souvenir shops and internet places, and is 5km from the beach. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Valladolid and around

Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Valladolid is another colonial town, not as big as Merida, but quite pleasant nonetheless. Its pretty quiet for most of the day, but is mobbed around 4pm when the tour buses are heading back to Cancun and Playa del Carmen ... [Continue reading this entry]

Merida and around

Saturday, September 8th, 2007
We treated ourselves to an internal flight to Merida - one and a half hours seemed better than 20 hours on the bus, particularly as the end of the trip feels like it is approaching far too quickly! Merida is ... [Continue reading this entry]

Mexico City

Saturday, September 8th, 2007
After getting up at an ungodly hour to catch our flight to Lima (planning to then spend the day in Lima before flying to Mexico that night) and even getting as far as checking in the flight was cancelled. Appeared ... [Continue reading this entry]

Isabela

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

It was a very bumpy 3 hour boat ride, in what felt like a very small boat in amongst the very large waves.  Wouldn't call it relaxing, more a case of cling on to, what felt like a plank, and hope!  However, we ... [Continue reading this entry]