Boston + Yucatan 2017

    • American Wedding
      (sorry, only google translate… 🙁 ) After just over two years, I went back to New England, to Concord near Boston. The reason for the trip was the wedding of Nathan and Liza, and we stayed with Nathan’s parents two years ago, and after we have always been in touch, we were invited to the wedding ...
    • Off to Mexico – first stop: Tulum
      (sorry, only google translate 🙁 ) So the weekend was over and we were flying over Atlanta to Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. As we did not want to do the Cancun, which was predominantly frequented by tourists, we sat in the airport directly in a bus to the Tulum 2 hours away with ...
    • Valladolid – Ruins, Ruins and more ruins
      (sorry, only google translate 🙁 ) For our third day we had booked a bus to Valladolid to visit the ruins Ek Balam and Chichen Itza. After we arrived at noon and after a little search also found our hotel, we went directly with the Collectivo to Ek Balam. This time, the whole worked within minutes, because ...
    • Mérida – collonial town and Dieter Bohlen
      (sorry, only google translate 🙁 ) Mérida was to become our first Mexican colonial city. Our visit was mainly limited to a tour of the town and a little walker through a local market (with super tacos :-)). During the tour of the town, we learned a lot about Spanish colonization, about the time during and ...
    • Bacalar – almost couchsurfing
      sorry, only google translate After the longest (but very comfortable, which should still change …) bus ride of barely 5 hours, we arrived at our last destination in Mexico, Bacalar. Bacalar is known for the Laguna Bacalar, also known as “Lagoon of the 7 Colors”. But later on, we were picked up by our supernetten AirBnB ...
    • Through Belize to Flores and Tikal
      After crossing the border, we were in Belize. Originally, we planned to stay in Belize for a couple of days, but somehow we ran out of time and Belize was just a bit pricey. We also noticed this immediately, as we wanted to take a taxi to the bus station to get our connection to ...
    • Semuc Champey – looong drive, Off-Roading, Waterfalls and two Katalans
      sorry, only google translate We had Semuc Champey already before on the note, as it looked after a suitable intermediate stop between Flores and Antigua and we did not want to sit again 10 hours in a minivan. Well, sentence with X, was probably nothing. After a little more detailed research, we found a rather striking ...
    • Antigua – colonial town surrounded by vulcanos
      sorry, only google translate… The ride from Lanquin to Antigua was by far the most unpleasant ride so far. No air conditioning, no turns and a slightly mad driver. In the middle of Guatemala City, which is due to the many chicken buses (old american school buses, which are converted as public transport) simply to Diesel ...
    • Lago Atitlan – birthday on the vulcano
      sorry, only google translate… After a 3 1/2 hour trip in the Chickenbus (should you have made time, but too long the route should not be), we were in Panajachel, the main starting point for the Lago Atitlan. We had quite a lot of thoughts, which volcano we would like to climb. After the volcanoes in ...
    • San Cristobal – back to Mexico on shaky grounds
      sorry, only google translate… The trip from Lago Atitlan to San Cristobal was praised us with 7-9 hours. We started at 6:30 in the morning and we arrived at 21:00. Exceptionally this was not the result of an empty promise, but simply bad luck (paired with a proper portion of bad organization). We were driven to ...
    • Palenque – two wonderful waterfalls, the last ruins and a looong way home
      sorry, only google translate… As we were not able to fly back to Cancun as originally planned, we had a different plan. From San Cristobal we booked a tour to the ruins in Palenque (about 5-6 hours drive), which also included the two waterfalls that we wanted to see. So we got into a minivan at ...