anyway, here you go:
the great pyramid in chichen-itza
an underground lake in a "cenote"
my sister making faces in coba
the caribbean
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
some mexico pix!
okay, here are some pics of the mexico trip. and there are gonna come more later-on i think. i hate posting pictures as it takes ages and there is no comfortable way of getting them into the right order afterwards.
anyway, here you go:
the great pyramid in chichen-itza
an underground lake in a "cenote"
my sister making faces in coba
the caribbean
anyway, here you go:
the great pyramid in chichen-itza
an underground lake in a "cenote"
my sister making faces in coba
the caribbean
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
and there's even more news...
...yep, that's true. i still haven't finished my "report" on all the things i saw and did here. hope it's not boring!!! well, not for me anyway.
so, after having been to that nice club med hotel (great pool) in uxmal on friday we went on to valladolid. on our way there we climbed into a real nice cave where we saw mayan remains that were dated thousands of years ago. it was a 2 km walk - all under ground and very impressing. you can see hand printings quite similar to those found in europe (which are about ten thousand years old).
and the whole cave was full of bats, bad bat shit and stalaktites.
after having seen that, we went directly to valladolid, a quite big city in the center of yucatan, where we spent a nice evening and the night.
early sunday morning we went to a lovely cenote, which is an undergroound cave (again - the whole peninsula is stuffed with caves) half-filled with water, where one can swim in. these cenotes are spread all over yucatan, some of them are closed, others are kind of half-open so that there's sun light hitting the surface of the water.
after a quick stop and swim there we drove to coba, which is another huge site of mayan remains - mostly pyramids and monoliths. it's such a large site, that we rent some bikes to be quicker. that was fun and quite different to the visits on other sites before.
well, and in the evening, after my sister and i grapped some stuff of hers - in the small town where she's normally working and living - we went via tulum to playa del carmen, where we are since.
playa is a very touristy, but nevertheless nice city on the caribbean coast of yucatan, or better, quintana roo, as the state here is called. a lovely but very thin beach (due to the last hurricane last autumn) with the whitest and coolest (temperaturewise) sand i've ever seen and beautifully coloured water. a lot of u.s. american tourists gather here, but i can live with that - for a week...
after the busy last week it's really cool chilling out a bit now. reading and swimming as much as possible, hanging around the pool and in bars at night - what a leisure. mmh, that's holidays!
i hope i made you're a tiny bit jealous now and if: i don't mind, hehe!
so see y'all later and have fun.
so, after having been to that nice club med hotel (great pool) in uxmal on friday we went on to valladolid. on our way there we climbed into a real nice cave where we saw mayan remains that were dated thousands of years ago. it was a 2 km walk - all under ground and very impressing. you can see hand printings quite similar to those found in europe (which are about ten thousand years old).
and the whole cave was full of bats, bad bat shit and stalaktites.
after having seen that, we went directly to valladolid, a quite big city in the center of yucatan, where we spent a nice evening and the night.
early sunday morning we went to a lovely cenote, which is an undergroound cave (again - the whole peninsula is stuffed with caves) half-filled with water, where one can swim in. these cenotes are spread all over yucatan, some of them are closed, others are kind of half-open so that there's sun light hitting the surface of the water.
after a quick stop and swim there we drove to coba, which is another huge site of mayan remains - mostly pyramids and monoliths. it's such a large site, that we rent some bikes to be quicker. that was fun and quite different to the visits on other sites before.
well, and in the evening, after my sister and i grapped some stuff of hers - in the small town where she's normally working and living - we went via tulum to playa del carmen, where we are since.
playa is a very touristy, but nevertheless nice city on the caribbean coast of yucatan, or better, quintana roo, as the state here is called. a lovely but very thin beach (due to the last hurricane last autumn) with the whitest and coolest (temperaturewise) sand i've ever seen and beautifully coloured water. a lot of u.s. american tourists gather here, but i can live with that - for a week...
after the busy last week it's really cool chilling out a bit now. reading and swimming as much as possible, hanging around the pool and in bars at night - what a leisure. mmh, that's holidays!
i hope i made you're a tiny bit jealous now and if: i don't mind, hehe!
so see y'all later and have fun.
Monday, March 13, 2006
a week in yucatan
ok. let's go.
after having had a long and necessary "nap" of i don't know how many hours, we started our tour of yucatan very relaxed by going to see a smaller mayan site on the roed up north of merida on tuesday. we spent some time there and headed further north to have some food at the sea, where it was quite windy, but: it was the sea, folks. i really missed the ocean throughout the time back in germany, i realize now. well, after living a year by the sea you kind of get used to it i think.
after another night in the busy yucatecan capital merida - loud buses, cars and motorbikes the whole day long, a lot of dirt and many many friendly mexicans and nice mxican food we finally left the city and headed for the coast again.
we went to celestun - a tiny fisher's town at the mexican golf coast, where we found a simple but very nice hotel at the beach. the town is near a huge lagoon and we went on a boat tour there to see the mangrove woods and the many flamingoes and other birds living there. thrilling trip that was!
and the next day - after a good morning swim in the kind of algae-smelly sea we drove on to the next very very famous site: uxmal.
uxmal is the most flashing site i saw throughout the last week. it's a huge complex consisting of several pyramids, temples, other buildings, a lot of plants and trees. all in all it's not as flat as chichen-itza is which makes it more interesting to look at.
after sunset we came back to the site (we stayed in a hotel close-by) to see an impressing light show. wow!
ok. i think that's it for part 2 of our first week, more about our journey soon...
after having had a long and necessary "nap" of i don't know how many hours, we started our tour of yucatan very relaxed by going to see a smaller mayan site on the roed up north of merida on tuesday. we spent some time there and headed further north to have some food at the sea, where it was quite windy, but: it was the sea, folks. i really missed the ocean throughout the time back in germany, i realize now. well, after living a year by the sea you kind of get used to it i think.
after another night in the busy yucatecan capital merida - loud buses, cars and motorbikes the whole day long, a lot of dirt and many many friendly mexicans and nice mxican food we finally left the city and headed for the coast again.
we went to celestun - a tiny fisher's town at the mexican golf coast, where we found a simple but very nice hotel at the beach. the town is near a huge lagoon and we went on a boat tour there to see the mangrove woods and the many flamingoes and other birds living there. thrilling trip that was!
and the next day - after a good morning swim in the kind of algae-smelly sea we drove on to the next very very famous site: uxmal.
uxmal is the most flashing site i saw throughout the last week. it's a huge complex consisting of several pyramids, temples, other buildings, a lot of plants and trees. all in all it's not as flat as chichen-itza is which makes it more interesting to look at.
after sunset we came back to the site (we stayed in a hotel close-by) to see an impressing light show. wow!
ok. i think that's it for part 2 of our first week, more about our journey soon...
Sunday, March 12, 2006
¡HOLA!
hey my friends out there in the jungle called life! i myself am somehow almost quite for sure in a real jungle at the moment. well, it's "junglish", one might say - and some others just call it yucatan, the peninsula in mexico's southeast.
and here i am, travelling around with my folks: my sister, my parents and a good friend of ours. for almost a week we've been on the road now and seen a lot of beautiful places.
but it wasn't easy at all to get here. my father and i wanted to take a "nice and easy" flight from munich via madrid and mexico city to cancun. doesn't sound the quickest way to come here, and - believe me - it wasn't. as we were booked on a flight last saturday night something made us change our plans: the awful snow conditions in munich which were so harsh that they cancelled our flight. after waiting 5 hours to be booked on another flight and waiting around the rest of the night we started on sunday morning in munich to fly to madrid, direction mexico. but in madrid the transatlantic plane was a tiny bit late (3 hours), so that we missed our connecting flight in miami (which should have brought us to cancun). after a short but good night of sleep, we finally came to cancun, one day late. but once on the airport we were really lucky to see my sister who waited for us. the only thing that didn't wait for us was our luggage.
to summarize our journey to get here: after never having had many problems on my previous flights, this time everything that can go wrong actually did go wrong.
but here we are now: in a land rich of sites, that belong to the historic and cultural heritage of mayan culture, we've got our hired car that brings us there and we saw so many things i won't forget in the last few days. we've got sun the whole day long and a reasonable amount of heat, hehe.
we left cancún immediateley after hiring our car and left for mérida. on our way we stopped at chichen-itza, one of the largest and most famous mayan temples on this peninsula. as we had little time, we had to rush a bit, but it 's a very impressing site indeed, although there are quite a few similarities to aztec pyramids in central mexico, i think. i'll post some photos as soon as possible. phew!
oh my golly, it's been so much, we saw and did, this one post won't do it.
well, after seeing chichen-itza we drove to mérida in the afternoon heat, and finally got there in the early evening to meet my mother and our friend sigi. we had a nice hotel in the center of yucatan's capital, quite near to the zócalo (the main, central place of each mexican city).
and after the first real mexican dinner at night last monday my father and i had to regain power via sleep - a long, long sleep...
(to be continued very soon...)
and here i am, travelling around with my folks: my sister, my parents and a good friend of ours. for almost a week we've been on the road now and seen a lot of beautiful places.
but it wasn't easy at all to get here. my father and i wanted to take a "nice and easy" flight from munich via madrid and mexico city to cancun. doesn't sound the quickest way to come here, and - believe me - it wasn't. as we were booked on a flight last saturday night something made us change our plans: the awful snow conditions in munich which were so harsh that they cancelled our flight. after waiting 5 hours to be booked on another flight and waiting around the rest of the night we started on sunday morning in munich to fly to madrid, direction mexico. but in madrid the transatlantic plane was a tiny bit late (3 hours), so that we missed our connecting flight in miami (which should have brought us to cancun). after a short but good night of sleep, we finally came to cancun, one day late. but once on the airport we were really lucky to see my sister who waited for us. the only thing that didn't wait for us was our luggage.
to summarize our journey to get here: after never having had many problems on my previous flights, this time everything that can go wrong actually did go wrong.
but here we are now: in a land rich of sites, that belong to the historic and cultural heritage of mayan culture, we've got our hired car that brings us there and we saw so many things i won't forget in the last few days. we've got sun the whole day long and a reasonable amount of heat, hehe.
we left cancún immediateley after hiring our car and left for mérida. on our way we stopped at chichen-itza, one of the largest and most famous mayan temples on this peninsula. as we had little time, we had to rush a bit, but it 's a very impressing site indeed, although there are quite a few similarities to aztec pyramids in central mexico, i think. i'll post some photos as soon as possible. phew!
oh my golly, it's been so much, we saw and did, this one post won't do it.
well, after seeing chichen-itza we drove to mérida in the afternoon heat, and finally got there in the early evening to meet my mother and our friend sigi. we had a nice hotel in the center of yucatan's capital, quite near to the zócalo (the main, central place of each mexican city).
and after the first real mexican dinner at night last monday my father and i had to regain power via sleep - a long, long sleep...
(to be continued very soon...)
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