The four hours to Boston never seemed this long! When we got on the bus, it still seemed as if everything was working ok but then we noticed...
Friday, July 19, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Unaffordable City
I must have been writing about how crazily expensive this city is but just reading another report on it I am shocked - this one featured ...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Protests in the East Village
After the verdict of the Trayvon Martin case there has been a lot of uproar in the streets. Frankly, it is beyond my comprehension how Zimme...
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Manhattan henge
About three weeks after the solstice the sun sets right in line with the avenues in manhattan - the so called manhattan henge. Just happened...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Noni tree & México in general
As my final post on this trip to Mexico I wanted to share some thoughts on my experience. Just now on the flight back from Villahermosa to H...
Monday, July 8, 2013
Another Mexican specialty I had to try
This fish is from the river an is called mojarra - yum and not even that many bones...
Fish BBQ back in Villahermosa
After all this sitting in the car (long drive today and also over the past few days), it felt great to be back home in Villahermosa. And the...
Horchata de coco
After this exhausting, hot climbing ruins experience we needed a nice refresco- wish we had this in NY actually...
Last picture of Palenque - promise
But I have to say that I want to see more of these Mayan ruins as this was very interesting and maybe next time ill read up on it u advance ...
Palenque - trying to get a 360 view
(Ok, my filming skills show some room for improvement but you get the idea)
El templo de las cruces
So this is the highest temple in the Mayan city and although it seems like quite a few steps in this excruciating heat, definitely well wort...
Palenque is baak in the Mayan language
And it actually means abundance of water and probably refers to the climate as it is humid and warm all year round. This is also why Mosquit...
Crazy that this was built in the 7th century
And still is this well preserved. No wonder this is a world heritage site and thousands of tourists come here every day (was considerably qu...
El palacio
One of the only ruins that you can climb and go down into the tunnels (where it's nice and cool - natural airconditioning I guess)...
Ceiva tree - sacred tree for the Mayans
And nice shade in the almost unbearable heat at palenque at lunch time in July...
Impressive building
The most famous Mayan tomb - the king pakal was buried here, next to his mum with lots of jade stones (apparently the Mayan's currency ...
Some of these tombs were only discovered in the 90's
So they are still working on the renovations and showing it as it used to be. Unfortunately you are not allowed to enter the tombs because o...
The view onto the palacio
The pyramids are tombs and the palacio is where the royal Mayan family used to reside.
And only two hours later
Finally in Palenque - most interesting to me was that 98% of the ruins are still covered by jungle but it's very expensive to uncover th...
Selva Maya - half way to palenque
Nice weather and already a lot warmer than st cristobal...
Mexican dinner - muy delicious
Yummy frijoles and quesadillas and the best guacamole ever!
Delicious breakfast
A chicken soup, platanos con queso y horchata - everything is just so good in this country and I'm actually starting to like a little sp...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Crossing Latin America by bike
Nice idea for my next trip - need lots of time for it though. These guys seemed to sustain themselves by selling artifacts too...
La gente de st cristobal de las casas
One of the first things you notice is that there are many people selling all kinds of artifacts, some kitschier than others. These are fami...
At cristobal is a nice place
And during the day the weather is very pleasant too...
La Katrina - the skeleton
Mexicans actually worship death and the skeleton is called Katrina - that's why you see these kinds of artifacts all over the country.
St cristobal de las casas
La catedral
Macadamias naturales
I had never seen these in their shell before - and the guy actually cracked them for us.
Mexican night life
This was at 2 am and I'm sure we were one of the firsts to go home...
Viva mexican women
The bar we were at was called la revolution and there were lots of hippies without shoes- seems to be a little bit of a hippie haven here...
Welcome to St Cristobal de las Casas
Quite a tourist center here in the middle of the mountains - and they put on a show for the tourists too. It's so much colder than down ...
And more tropical fruits
Last time I saw these was in Malaysia - rambutans are sold at every corner here...
And afterwards we needed some more tamale
I loved the one with beans and the sweet one ;-)
Hydropower plant
And the end of our boat trip
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