Chetumal & Bacalar

Mexico! The last country we will visit on this trip with Nemo, the Blue Bus. Although the initial plan was to reach Halifax in Canada, the long wait for an efficient transport from Colombia to Panama made us change the plan and limit ourselves only to Latin America. But we don't regret it, this way we had time to enjoy the wonders of Central America at our leisure. Many things can only be understood if you have experienced them yourself, a year for the Patagonia - Halifax trip is possible, but you have relatively little time to interact with people and admire the places you pass through. It is indeed an enormous amount of driving, most of the time you will spend behind the wheel. The schedule for transporting the camper by ship to Europe is on September 28 from Veracruz (Mexico) to Antwerpen (Belgium). We hope that everything goes according to plan and schedule. Although... sometimes we think about staying a few more months in Latin America... :)

The first few days in Mexico were spent near Chetumal exploring the surroundings and we stayed at a very nice campsite in Caldaritas. We had come here with the intention of staying one night, but we liked the location so much that we stayed four nights. Then we went to Bacalar, where we spent two nights in a small marina for pleasure boats on the lake.

With your own car in Mexico is very interesting, but you have to be very careful where you go, so as not to have unnecessary problems. In principle, if you use the main roads and do not drive at night it is absolutely fine. Avoiding the very touristy areas (Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel) that is, where the consumer-sheep tourists go, we decided to do it even before arriving in Mexico. In these areas there are many tourist traps...Baca lagi