Teotihuacan Ruins

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Now this is what I call impressive! Avoiding the crowds and the salespeople was a nightmare, but grand it was indeed.

The young, the old, and the eternal.

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El Tajin

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

“Chinese food!” screamed Shurik from the back and Sergey slammed the breaks. We weren’t even searching for a place to eat. We were looking for the right way to the El Tajin ruins, but the thought of yet another taco, for our next meal, was clearly unbearable to each and one of us.

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Call for info on Yucatan!

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

People! :)
We are now in Mexico City and will be heading towards Yucatan where on the 25th we will be traveling with my mother and little sister for a week. Due to their limited time I wanted to ask you for any precious tidbits you can give away about this place. Home base will be Riviera Maya and we already know to visit Chechenitza, Cozumel, Merida… and even on those places I would like a for/against opinion.

Info on Holbox Island, were you can swim with whale sharks, was already generously provided by summercamp, so write on, I know you’ve been there! ;)

Thanks!

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Plaza of the fallen, Pit of the Swallows

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

04:30am. We spent all last evening looking for information on getting a ride to the Pit of the Swallows and all we got is that we should show up at the main plaza at dawn. Yesterday the plaza was alive with shops, taco stands, game booths, and tons of happy people. Now there were still plenty people around, only that they were either concentrating on walking a straight line, not understanding the correlation between the failure to do so and the drink in their hand, or lying around – passed out on various death-trap-looking rides like a little rollercoaster or a VW Beatle merry-go-round. Sleepy and grumpy I thought about sitting on the curb, but it smelled like a urinal, so I went across the street and climbed onto a large trampoline that was built like a large bounce-house. “Weird that nobody is sleeping inside,” I said to nobody in particular and let my eyes rest for only a second. Bad idea. Since I was not in the same sort of comatose state everybody else around me was, the blinding head splitting light from the passing by cars woke me up instantaneously, and now I was in an even worse mood.

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Reserva Biosfera

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I woke up before the alarm. “You both snore,” I said, and Shurik, on my right, made an disapproving sound. “Yeah?” mumbled Sergey on my left. Last night, in this town of Gomez Farias, we made plans with a man named Saul to take a ride in his 4×4 to the start of a hiking trail in El Cielo Biosphere, and as part of the deal he gave us a place to park, and sleep, in GreenGo. “I tried to nudge you as gently as I could when you did. Shurik though pulled one of his stamping-out-the-snake routine to go with the ‘music’. Something in his dreams he says.” I dragged myself out of the van stretching. Sleeping in a threesome like this is not most comfortable of the ways we could spend the night, but paying for a hotel when today’s shaky ride was going to cost us $70 was even less appealing.

( Reserva Biosfera )

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