Mexico and Guacamole

Sightseeing, traveling between the Tabasco and Quintana Roo

 

Curti - Rome - Paris

Today begins our holiday and as the airplane part to 9:30 we must wake up soon .. at 3:50 AM (Gulp). At 4:30 we are already in the car, just a stop for breakfast and so all'autogrill!. At 7:30 we are parking Italia 92 (economicissimo and convenient). The free shuttle bus takes us to the airport where we see a suspicious mist that you want to see ... ... .. bitter surprise our plane was canceled and unfortunately we lose the connection for the city of Mexico. Needless citarre the extreme kindness of the staff accommodation which contrasts with the extreme rudeness of the staff at the ticket office alpha (we are in Italy). Since the IATA suggests companies not to pay the accommodation (in case of adverse weather conditions) or to the victims and then you sleep in Rome (hoping that the day after there is the mist), or leave for Paris and stay there. .. of course we choose the second chance. Ok we arrived in Paris our luggage and we head to the information to let us suggest a hotel (economic) located nearby. La tipa gives us a photocopy where are listed phone numbers, the distance from the airport and prices. After a call to empty finally find accommodation at the Premiere class (42 euros), a bus that leaves from the 4 races (costs 3 euro a / r you pay at the hotel when you return) leads us to the destination in 15 min.

Paris - Mexico City

After the usual breakfast at the hotel (4.5 euros / pp), take the shuttle that takes us back at the airport. 10:30 our plane from the flight will last about 13 hours, the plane is a Boeing 767 dell'aereomexico the seats are fairly wide but not one of the newest models. A little tired arrive at your destination, get the pesos (all'ATm max 3000) and we head towards the wing to the airport where the licensed taxis. A small desk on the left sells tickets, single charge depending on where Siva (in our case to the Zocalo, the main square ... 127 pesos). With all the traffic in 30 minutes we are at our hotel the catedra. Fortunately after the passatol'ufficio migraciones, we arrived at the infamous column with the button, which once pressed when the screen is green you go ok, otherwise we need to open all the luggage. Obviously, since we had not warned yesterday (we were in flight), we lost the tsanza but that's not make more in pay and give us the suite for the same price (475 pesos !!!). Let's make a quick tour of the Zocalo and visit the imposing cathedral, tired we decide to go to sleep.

Mexico City - Merida - Piste

Fortunately, tonight is the big sleep, after a nice breakfast in our hotel (150 pesos), we return to the airport, we expect the flight to Merida with piccolissima Aereocalifornia. After some confusion and a bit of catch up (after xchè understand) in our flight leaves (the plane is a DC9 and a board you can smoke !!!). We arrive in Merida after 1h and 30 min, we take the usual fixed-price taxi and arrive at the bus station of the second class. Let the ticket for the bus to Chichen Itza (52 pesos) journey time 2h 30 min. The landscape along the route is very beautiful pecho pass through many small villages, we must be careful because no one tells you to stop and just go down the part he (the eye bags). Runs come to the dark, are the 19:30, we arrive at our hotel the Pyramid Inn (410 pesos), very low. Posiamo luggage and we head to the restaurant recommended by the guide Mestizas to eat good tacos and two chicken cooked on a stone (160 pesos).

Piste - Chichen Itza - Valladolid - Tulum

Finally today we see our first site. Given the heat we decide to wake up very early, so after breakfast we are opening the site of Chichen Itza, arrive by taxi (ruinas direction), the entrance costs 40 pesos (the camera 35), in addition to the usual restaurants and souvenir shops there is a great luggage store. As you enter after a few meters you can admire the Castilian in all its beauty, truly exceptional. The guide says that on every side there are 91 steps over a central, and as 365 days. You can not go up more on the pyramid. On the left stands the magnificent stage of pelota, perfectly preserved beautiful, beating their hands in the middle of the stadium we can hear the echo ... exceptional. Is just outside the wall where the skulls were sacrificed the winners (or losers). Continuing we see the temple of a thousand columns, the pyramid of the priest very beautiful. Every time you see the squirrels and huge iguanas that wander among the ruins. For the coach should not return to slopes but outside the site pasa bus to Tulum (three buses a day) or oper Vallaloid (hence depart daily for 6 to Tulum), tickets can be bought in the souvenir shop. We take the bus for Vallaloid (where we come in 45 min) and hence the ADO bus to Tulum (arriving in 1h 30 min). We arrive at Tulum and take the bus for our cabanas on the beach of the Diamond K (350 pesos). Our cabanas are made of very small logs (when you strip you can see the same), is on the beach and there are many palm trees. Even if the charming cabanas are very uncomfortable and as we face the curse of Montezuma, there is a need for a bathroom. We decided to book for the day after the most comfortable hotel el crucero (300 pesos). In the evening we eat in the famous hotel Charlie, very bad idea.

Tulum

Ottima la scelta del crucero, because now the curse reaches its apex (mii that fear). Fortunately, thanks to legendary service (even if only by phone) of medical Assistance Europe (which the Board always) we are a little more quiet.

Tulum

Manu morning feels a little better, finally eat something. Calmly to the eleven do a small stroll to the beach and see a wonderful woodpecker in his lair, very beautiful. We arrive near the ruins (located 10 min) and from there go to the cabanas el mirador where you put in the beach. The afternoon will still rest in our hotel and then go back to the beach for a dip in the magnificent Caribbean sea.

Tulum

Today we will visit the site (admission 40 pesos and 35 camera). In fact the site is less impressive, the only nice thing is the classic postcard with the ruins of Castile is a peak on the beach and the magnificent Caribbean Sea. Many people opt for the bathroom next to the ruins but there is a few meters of the beach mirador much less crowded.

Tulum - Caleta Yulka - Tulum

Today we expect a wonderful trip to the cove Yulka, located in the direction after Akumal playa del Carmen (20 min from Tulum). Comodissimo Take a collectivos (white vans style A-team, with the scitta red-Tulum playa del C. ), having risen ask the driver to leave the Caleta Yulka. We unload at 20 pesos, from here you get an arcade andateci here and take a taxi just before not otherwise pay more (in the taxis are Tulum who make off-site). Let you leave in front of the Posada Que Onda here or paid 60 pesos to enter the cove or (suggested option) there invilate the path right in front of the posada (do not ask the taxi driver who tells you otherwise there is no path. After past vegetation arrived on the rocks, a few steps and you're on the left of the inlet. The cove is a wonderful place, pity for the homes built by American tourists around the cove and prevent access (except for the trail and the entrance that is pays 60 pesos), there are colorful fish kigliaia ... incredible, let me commend the beam with a T-shirt and do not use sunscreen. In the evening we go to eat at Don Cafet.

Tulum - Merida

12:30 Today our party bus to Merida, the trip takes 4 hours and costs 163 pesos. As soon as we arrive in Merida immediately feel the heat, take a taxi and we arrive at our accommodation la Luz 'En Yucatan, very nice the room is very large (450 pesos). We do a nice walk to downtown, eating at Habana coffee (I do not recommend) and then we go home tomorrow, wake up to 4:00!

Merida - Villahermosa - Palenque

As expected we wake up at 4:00 and luckily our taxi booked by the tipa of the day before, even if arriving early. The time to prepare things and in about 20 minutes at that obviously there was no traffic, the plane of Aviacsa (good company) party at 6:30 in the meantime we discover that the company has opened a mexicana low cost ddal name click. At 7:30 we are in Villahermosa and once landed to be done the usual rigmarole or go to the taxi stand and buy tickets at the usual fixed costs 150 pesos, our destination is the bus station of ADO. Around 8:30, and our party bus to 9:30 coast 166 pesos (two people) the duration of the journey is approximately 2 hours. On the bus as well as having the air conditioning on ball (munitevi of felpina) send a film polpettone pero 'comfort is very good. Temporarily salute the state of Tabasco in Chiapas to go .... Almost in the middle of the forest. The terminal is located a short walk from our hotel the Kashlari, booked by phone this morning, give us a huge room that normally cost 600 pesos for just 300 ... effect of the low season. I must say that even if we are truly in April is very hot and the site you should see quini morning we decide to do a small walk to the center (is not much). We decide to eat at the restaurant where we take a Maya tacos, quesadillas and a steak with potatoes for 145 pesos. Given the heat we decide to go back to the hotel and to kill the time we decide to surf a little 'over the internet (1 pesos per hour). Reading the post discover that the company failed Aereocalifornia few days after our flight .... Infarction ... obviously not for the failure will be no refund, and then try to find a replacement flight. Come on them in the ticket office of the city that asks us 300 USD, while on the internet we found 279.39 USD (obviously without the rights of agency) with the legendary Aviacsa. After having solved the problem of tickets go to the bus station to demand the time of return: 12:15 p.m. and 13:30.

Palenque - Villahermosa

This morning we visit the archaeological site and that makes a heat already 10:00, we decide to go and see the site opening (8:00). The combi start near our hotel, waiting several minutes for the van and fill it in the direction away .. ruinas for 20 pesos and walk the 8 km which separate us from the site. Released 45 pesos per person more '35 for the camera (which are the rights tv ???). Fortunately there is' little people and we go immediately to the temple inscriptions (we can not 'go up) and immediately in front of the palace with the observation tower. The site and 'beautiful, completely immersed in the forest only a small part and' visible. After we cross a small bridge over a stream and you come to the square of the cross, where you can see the temple of the sun, the temple of the cross foliata and finally the temple of the cross. This and 'the structure that is more' high and rising (not with little difficulty ') you can admire a fantastic spectacle. Coming down towards the exit you will see several ruins until you get to the game of pelota, which has nothing to do with that of Chichen Itza. Going to the second exit, towards the museum, you go through a beautiful forest until you come to a beautiful waterfall with a bridge overhead. The museum is not very big and the more 'interesting are the incensari. Outside the museum just wait five minutes and take the team that goes' on Palenque. AD descend at the stop where we buy tickets for Villahermosa of 12:15 (85 pesos per person) ... we will be out at least forty degrees. Starting at 12:20 p.m., the street and 'full of holes and the bus skipping like crazy, fortunately the air conditioning is not' a ball and send a nice movie: Alaska. At some point we stop for a fixed block (which I had not noticed to same) which rose to control of the military documents ... we are in Chiapas. After more 'than two hours we arrive in Villahermosa, in order not to run as a top decide to call various hotels to see if there', but as so often say speaks only spanish so we will choose one at random and we let directly. We discover that here in Villahermosa we can not stop the taxi on the street but you have to expect at specific points. Hotel East and 'our destination where we take a room with air conditioning for 310 pesos. Even if the lady who welcomes us and 'rude enough rooms are very clean, we eat at the restaurant madam, good.

Villahermosa - Mexico City

Today we conclude the tour, thankfully after the failure of Aereocalifornia Avaicsa saved us only that the flight 'at 8:10 and then we must make the usual levataccia. Usually we take the taxi to the airport 150 pesos arrive in 20 minutes. The flight lasts for MEX 1h and 20 minutes, our hotel 'comodissimo the Catedral (that taxi drivers often confuse with the nearby Hostal Catedral, although now has changed name), the chamber room costs 475 pesos, but pay in cash the 430 .. piece becomes excellent, clean and centrally located a short walk from the local level. The next step, and 'the gigantic museum of anthropology, where we get comfortable using the subway (2 pesos). Get off at Auditorium and in a few steps to the museum we are today, and 'Sunday and on and' free!. The museum and 'great notable rooms are the Maya, Teotihuacan and Mexico ... .. but most objects' beautiful are the tomb of Pacal, the heads Omleche and the wheel of the sun.

Città del Messico- Teotihuacan-Città del Messico

CI svegliamo con tutta calma e facciamo una buona ed abbondante colazione nel nostro hotel, prendiamo la comoda metropolitana per andare al grandissimo terminal norte dei bus. Entrando sulla sinistra in fondo, in direzione sala 8, c’e’ la compagnia di autobus che va’ alle piramidi (27 pesos) il viaggio dura 1 h e si arriva alla porta n°1 delle rovine. Paghiamo i soliti 45 pesos a persona piu’ 35 pesos per la telecamera. Il primo palazzo (la cittadella) la cittadella non e’ un granche’ se non le teste /statue che si vedono dopo la scalinata. Da qui si ha una panoramica stupenda della piramide del sole e della luna. Ci sono vari locali che ti fermano e ti propongono oggetti interessanti, percorriamo tutto il viale dei morti fino alla piramide del sole, fortunatamente siamo abbastanza in alto e non fa’ molto caldo. Salire gli scalini della piramide e’ veramente un impresa ardua, pero’ da sopra e’ meraviglioso. Con le poche forze rimaste ci dirigiamo verso la piramide della luna per scattare le ultime foto (non per salirci), usciamo dalla porta n°3 dove aspettiamo una decina di minuti il bus per citta’ del Messico.