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March 26, 2017
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Flight with views
March 26, 2017 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 -14 °C
An 11h flight can be pretty boring, especially if the board entertainment is not included in your tariff (by the way: don't use Eurowings for long-distance flights, they'll even charge you for juice).
However, if you're lucky enough to encounter a clear sky, you may be able to admire hundreds of miles of pure ice fields off Newfoundland's shore. You might even pass Cape Canaveral before hitting the Caribbean.Read more
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Spontaneous Roadtrip
March 27, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Knowing that tomorrow I would fly to Monterrey from Cancún airport, it was hard to decide whether to stay in Cancún for another 1,5 days, or if Tulum with its great beaches and flair was worth the two-hour ride for such a short time. Luckily I could join a group that was going first to a cenote and then to Tulum by car, which made getting around a lot easier. Thus I ended up having a perfectly relaxed day with a bunch of cool people hanging out at the caves and having a delicious dinner in the village afterwards.Read more
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Enjoying the Caribbean
March 28, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
What can I say, Tulum is just beautiful :)
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Back in Monterrey!
March 28, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ 🌙 26 °C
After a long flight sitting next to really annoying kids I finally got back to the place where my travel history started. Besides meeting friends I hadn't seen or in part even talked to in years, it also feels great to take in the panorama again. I had almost forgotten how impressive the mountains of the Sierra Madre are, the characteristic shapes of Cerro de la Silla and La "M", the countless peaks of Las Mitras and the breathtaking rocks of La Huasteca. Almost forgotten about the huge flag at the top of Obispado. Almost forgotten about watching humming birds at the university.
I spent the day at my old university and had a lot of time to watch the others there. It was for the first time that I noticed the huge differences between “regios" (people from Monterrey) and especially the UDEM compared to other Mexicans: starting with their fancy clothing over the their impressive working attitude (which now seems much bigger to me now that I don't have to prepare group presentations anymore) and ending in the fact that here most people could work as models, while in most other parts of Mexico the amount of obesity is stunning.Read more
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Monterrey, Mexiko
March 30, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Going back to the Monterrey's “sights“ in the town center: Macroplaza, Paseo Santa Lucía and Barrio Antiguo :)
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Quinceañera
April 1, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
An important part of the Mexican culture celebrating 15th birthdays with a really big party. I was lucky enough to be invited to the one of Argelia's cousin in San Luis. It was crazy, I felt like at a wedding: the family had rented a spot in Tengamanga park, the guests were assigned to their tables, a live orchestra played, there were stilt walkers, a caricaturist, loads of food and sweets and a magician. Everyone wore there finest dresses, many - including us - had their hair and make-up done professionally. For a foreigner this really is a once in a lifetime experience.Read more
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San Luis Potosí
April 3, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I've been passing some really relaxed days here in San Luis with Argelia and Olibert, they invited me to meet their families and eat with them (by the way 's mum prepares the best mole I've tried in my whole life), showed me their town, the university, took me to their classes and even to an oral exam :)Read more
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Santiago de Querétaro
April 5, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
After my stay at San Luis, I went on to Querétaro together with Argelia. Most of the time we spent walking through the colonial towns or even up to a "mirador" (= viewpoint - although due to the trees all around you couldn't see anything) and looking through the cute little shops. Some nieve (mexican ice cream) and gorditas queratanas (cf. picture) we couldn't miss out on either.Read more
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Por los callejones de Guanajuato
April 6, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Arriving in Guanajuato last night, some people were about to go to the cinema, so I joined them. It may have to do with the fact that the movie ("Aquarius") was really weird, or just be because I hadn't really had a chance to actually “arrive“, but on our way back to the hostel being back in this beautiful town seemed totally surreal. I walked by the nicely illuminated churches and through the crooked streets and just couldn't get rid of the feeling that they were just paintings.
Today I just took a long walk through the tiny callejones (= alleys) with another German girl. We found the university and it's art exhibition and had a great workout walking up the steep hills.Read more
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Festival de las flores
April 7, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
I feel like my trip has a pretty good timing. I visited Guanajuato exactly the two days of its flower festival. The whole town is full of flowers and people, and there is quite some good party going on. The intention is for the guys to buy flowers and to give them to their girlfriends or girls they liked.
We first saw two live bands, then we went on to the bar “Golem“ where Edson, one of the owners of our hostel, works.
Whereas I thought that the main festival day had been yesterday (friday), it turned out that there were even more people today. Thus, Esther and I ended our city walk pretty soon and rather went to Golem to say hi to Edson. They even have us micheladas and paella for free!
However, I had to leave pretty soon in order to catch my bus to Guadalajara, witch, as expected, turned out to be a bit complicated. The bus terminal is around 5km out of town, but thanks to the festival there was a lot of traffic and the busses ran rather irregularly. Also getting a cab was almost impossible inside town, but you can always rely on the people: I asked a Mexi-American family where I could catch the bus to the bus station, and they took me there with their car :)Read more
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Lago de Chapala
April 8, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Had a nice trip to Mexico's biggest lake with Andrés and his mum, visiting the villages Chapala and Ajijic :)
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Go Chivas!
April 8, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
In the evening we went to a game of one of Mexico's best soccer teams. We had a whole Mexican adventure: people needing 30 minutes to leave the house once they had already said that they were on their way out, being left without a car at the stadium, climbing a hill on the way to get a cab which then went in the opposite direction of the road and afterwards a great party with Cumbia and Salsa danceRead more
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Bosque La Primavera
April 9, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Today I had a little "hike" with Andrés. Actually we didn't walk that much, but the combination of the strong sun and the up to 80°C warm volcanic river were enough to almost knock us out. There was barely and shade and since it hadn't been raining since september we were basically breathing in dust. Anyway it's a great sight to pass a quiet and relaxing day.Read more
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Guadalajara Centro
April 10, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
I spent this day walking around Guadalajara's city center and Tlaquepaque, eating ice cream and looking for artisan crafts. In the evening I went out for some pulque (fermented agave “juice“) with Andrés.Read more
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Villa Rica beach
April 11, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
I left Guadalajara really early to get my 6 am flight to Veracruz, where Gerardo picked me up at the airport. After a huge Veracruzan breakfast at the famous Parroquia and recovering some sleep, his parents took us to Villa Rica. The small village not even offers a virgin beach with beautiful rock formations, but also some totonaca ruins in the surrounding mountains.Read more
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Veracruz reunion
April 13, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
My time in Veracruz was dedicated to meeting Gerardo, Fran and Richi again. We went to the beach, had some beer, great Italian food and walked around the town. I also met a big part of Gerardo's family and friends of his parents. I felt really special, as everyone seemed to be wanting to get to know me :DRead more
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Punta Zicatela, Puerto Escondido
April 14, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
People didn't exaggerate when they told me about the beauty of Puerto Escondido. I'm staying at a hostel that's directly on the beach of Punta Brisas de Zicatela. I spent my day enjoying the sun, climbing around the cliffs and watching pelicans “falling“ from the sky into the water in order to catch some fish.Read more
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Mazunte sunset & sunrise
April 15, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Following the Oaxaca coast around 1h from Puerto Escondido, you get to the village of Mazunte. Except for lying on the beach (you don't even need to leave the hostel for that). However, you get spectacular sunrise and sunset views, either from Punta Cometas (which you reach by a 20 minute walk uphill) or, if you've booked an "estrella", comfortably from your bed.Read more
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Dolphin time
April 16, 2017, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
I got up early today to take a boat trip along the cost (and of course to see the sunrise). We got to see some turtles, flying manta rays and lots of dolphins. They came really close to the boat, sometimes they were just centimeters away from my hand. Only when we wanted to join them swimming they went away. At the end we had a tiny snorkelling session close to the beach and surprisingly I even saw a sea horse!Read more
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San Cristóbal de las casas
April 19, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
In the end I stayed a day longer in Mazunte than I had planned, since all busses were full due to the Easter holidays. In retrospective though, that was even better, as now I could travel together with Alex from Barcelona. I had already been hanging out with him and Francesco (Italian) in Mazunte all the time, mostly somewhere in between beach and the shady hostel.
In San Cristóbal we spent the first two days walking through the town. In addition, there were many activities in the hostel, for example pizza / sushi / burger nights, parties, ping pong or just curing your hangover in a hammock in the garden. We had to get used to the cold though: since San Cristóbal lies at 2100m, temperatures vary extremely throughout the day.Read more
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Cañón del Sumidero
April 20, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
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Short visit in Tuxtla
April 21, 2017 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
During my time as a waitress in Cologne, I had met a really nice couple from Tuxtla Gutiérrez that invited me to stay with them. As my flight was already the next morning, I couldn't stay long, but it was enough to grab a michelada in town.
In their house I felt like in a luxury hotel: I had my own, huge room with tv, couch, bathroom and home trainer, a big terrace, their was a pool and high tech doors.Read more
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Trip end
April 22, 2017