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Mexico, Mexico City - May 2007
mcdog
We were out of bed early, this was our final day in Mexico City, and we needed to be out of our room by 1400hrs. Not a problem, we were assured that we would be back from our tour of the city long before that time. So the bags [...]

Mexico, Mexico city - May 2007
Mcdog
There is nothing small or dainty about a club sandwich at Cancun Airport. We had bought one each as belated breakfasts and had struggled to finish them. The waiter asked with a big grin if we wanted anything else and affected surprise when we declined. He wandered off, probably looking [...]

Mexico, Valladolid - May 2007
mcdog
We were up early after sleeping in the what was definitely the worst room we had stayed in since starting this trip. The room looked good but the fan, though it turned, didn’t actually move any air around. Hold a lighter about six inches beneath the fan blades and the [...]

Mexcio, Mahahual - May 2007
Mcdog
Mahahual looked like a ghost town when we arrived on the bus. There were lots of bars on the beach, places to hire jet-skis and kayaks and buy snorkelling and diving trips and souvenirs aplenty but where were the people to provide the money to justify all this effort? They [...]

Mexico - 2007
mcdog
We were introduced to the gentle art of cenote swimming at Cenote Azul, near Bacalar. We caught a taxi from Bacalar to the cenote. There is a well-ventilated restaurant, the biggest we had seen at that point on our trip, at the side of the cenote where swimmers can refresh themselves after [...]