Cancun
2018年6月4日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Wee lie in after walking around Teotihuacan, and late flight yesterday.
Walked 4km to the main hotel area, blisteringly hot, even in the shade. Stopped off to cool down at a beach side bar. Fantasticもっと詳しく
Hacienda Kaan Ac
2018年6月5日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Early start to the day for another tour. We travel west for three hours to near Valladolid, stopping at Hacienda Kaan Ac for breakfast. A hacienda is an old Fort, now a luxury hotel.
Temozón, Mayan town
2018年6月5日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
After the hacienda we pass through the small town of Temozón, where their first language is still Mayan, only learning Spanish at school. Here the local churches have been built from the remnants ofもっと詳しく
Las Coloradas
2018年6月5日, メキシコ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
It's another two hours north from Valladolid to Las Coloradas. These are a serious of shallow lagoons, initially filled with sea water, then transferred every two and a half weeks to the next.
Theもっと詳しく
Mangrove Boat ride
2018年6月5日, メキシコ
About 30 minutes from Las Coloradas, we got on little boat's under a bridge. This river is the Ria Lagartos, not Río, as Río is fresh water, and Ria is a salt water river.
We went up river to aもっと詳しく
Mud pack beach
2018年6月5日, メキシコ
Digging a little below the harder surface of this mud beach, we got to the gooey clay. We then spread it on us. The ancient Mayans used this same place, with the mud claiming to have exfoliating andもっと詳しく
Río Lagartos
2018年6月5日, メキシコ ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We then went past the bridge, down river, spotting heron, more flamingos and an eagle. We looked for alligators, but never spotted any.
We eventually passed the small town of Río Lagartos, were weもっと詳しく
Chichen Itza
2018年6月6日, メキシコ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
A very early, 5am start to the day, so that we beat the crowds and heat of Chichen Itza. We were the first in the car park at 8am.
Chichen Itza was set out by the Mayans 1100 years ago, with threeもっと詳しく
Pelota Ball court
2018年6月6日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Behind the Temple of the Jaguar was the Great Ball Court. A capital "ɪ' shaped court surrounded by 10m high walls, made from limestone. This allowed the court to have a great resonance, and evenもっと詳しく
Sagrado Cenote
2018年6月6日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
To the north of the site lay a Cenote, where the ground had collapsed and formed a lake. There was another to the south of the plaza. Near it was a much smaller pyramid.
Ater that we stopped at theもっと詳しく
México City
2018年6月7日, メキシコ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The flight from Cancún was ahead of time. Really like them showing the view from the front of the plane during take-offs and landings. But with folk taking their time getting off the plane, and aもっと詳しく
Havana
2018年6月7日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Thought it was going to be a flight from hell to Havana, with a noisy guy on my left, and a screaming bairn across the aisle. Thankfully both fell asleep after take-off. Turned out to be a pretty goodもっと詳しく
Malecón
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
I walked not far north until I reached the road along the waterfront. This is Malecón, an 8km long promenade. Walking to the east, and towards central Havana, you realise the contrast of the bygoneもっと詳しく
Plaza 13 de Mayo
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Coming southwards into the port, I come across the Plaza de Trece de Mayo. In it there's statues for Gustavo Morez, José Martí, the writer during the independence revolution, and a huge Cuban flag.もっと詳しく
Castillo de la Real Fuerza
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
This is not what I was expecting to see in Havana, a star shaped castle with a moat completely around it.
After Havana was raided in 1555 by French buccaneer Jacques de Sores, destroying the originalもっと詳しく
Plaza de la Catedral
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
I wander further along the side of the Port and came across Plaza de la Catedral. A lot more tourists here, so followed their routes and found some interesting streets, and a bar "La Bodeguita delもっと詳しく
Plaza de San Francisco
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Further on I find this large plaza with the St. Francisco de Asís Basilica at one side, and just across the road the main ferry terminal, with a huge cruise liner berthed there.
The streets of Old Havana
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Parque Central
2018年6月8日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
I spot a lot of old American cars, they are everywhere, but these one's are in great nick. This is Parque Central where a lot of tourist buses start their tours from, hence the guy's offering tours inもっと詳しく
Plaza de la Revolución
2018年6月9日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
This was the turning point of the hop on hop off bus. A huge plaza, with a massive modern monument to Jose Marti, and a couple of buildings looking over it with the efigies of Fidel Castro and Cheもっと詳しく
Vinales Valley viewpoint lunch
2018年6月10日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Finally the tour is up and running, leaving Havana towards the west. It's fairly flat land, with clumps of tree's, and quite a few Royal palm trees, the national tree of Cuba.
After a few hours weもっと詳しく
Cueva del Indio
2018年6月10日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Next we go through the small town of Vinales, where we'll spend the next two nights, but we don't stop. Instead we head up a small gorge to the Indian Cave (Cueva del Indio).
We climb a little to theもっと詳しく
Finca Macondo
2018年6月10日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
After visiting the cave we travel not too far to a small farm that produces and makes their own cigars.
We visit the drying shed, where they constantly rotate the racks of leaves from top to bottom.もっと詳しく
Vinales Casa
2018年6月10日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
After visiting the cigar farm, we go back into Vinales and drop off our bag's at our homestay. I stayed at the Villa Kenia.
Shortly after we have a short walk to get a Salsa class. A great laugh,もっと詳しく
Dance show
2018年6月10日, キューバ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
So after the meal tonight we visited an open air dance show, and the salsa looked a lot more intruquite than what we had been taught, but the basic steps were the same.
On the walk to the homestayもっと詳しく





































































































































































































