Mexico

Big, bigger, Mexico city. This is one hell of a city the Mexicans have here, it's huge. We came in, at around 8pm, flying from Havana. On the plane I sat next to a happy New Yorker, which draw for me a picture perfect map of where we could find a hostal. The hostal turned out fine and cozy, in the middle of Sona Rosa (Pink neighborhood) where it's rich, richer, richest. Shopping mall and advertisment boards all around the area. Suddenly I noticed in Cuba I didn't see a single advertisment, it's forbidden. In one way or another, it was nice to be in the real world again. Normal food, instead of rice and beans. Altough the lobster in Cuba (4 US) was very nice.

In Mexico city we walked around the old town, goverment buildings and of course Teotihuacan (te-o-ti-wa-can). The piramide of the sun is the second tallest piramide in the world (71m), only those in Gaza are taller. I was impressed 2 years ago by Tikal, but this piramide is just so big! It's huge. Once you climbed to the top, exhausted, gasping for some air, the view is okey. Not much to see except some mountains. Actually the amazing thing is the piramide on itself, not the view. Still worth the climb though.

The happy New Yorked invited us for a dinner, so we met him again a couple of days later and he took us to a nice restaurant. He was an actor, worked for unesco, was setting up a new play in Mexico. 50% of travelling is having new experiences, viewing different landscapes, eating strange food, riding old buses. The other half exist of meeting interesting people.

14 hours in a bus and we are stationed in the beautiful city of San Cristobal de las Casas. Today a tour with some fellow travellers to a canyon, which was okey. From here I'll probably go to Quetzaltenango (Xela) which is in Guatemala :-). Can't wait to go there again.

Kan je eindelijk je schoenen ophalen! ;)
maaruh nog steeds geen foto's? hoe gaat het nu met Ralph en wanneer is het splitten?

Vet. Die diagonale foto met de balkons. goed gezien!
cheers.

Hallo olaf,

Mooie foto's van Cuba, alleen jammer dat jullie er niet op staan.

Groetjes.