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Acatenango
October 6, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Hiking on the volcano Acatenango was so far one of the best experiences we had here. We woke up in the morning and hitchhiked to the village Soledad, we waited for Tiffany and Erwan who had some troubles on the way. Around 11:30 we started walking up. Most of the other people was walking with a guide. It was definitely manageable without as the way was very clear.
Around 16 we got to the basecamp where we build our tent. Most of the time it was quite foggy there but as we got up, we got a beautiful view and the Volcan fuego and Aqua and all the villages around.
In the evening we made a "small" hike to the volcan fuego, which was much harder then expected, but we got a beautiful view on the volcano flushing lava every 20 minutes.
In the morning we woke up around 4a.m. to hike up to Acatenango to see the sunrise. Unfortunately we got little bit lost on the way.
When we got up, the view was really amazing.Read more
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10/15/22Reply
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Santiago Zamora
October 7, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
After the hike we needed long time rest.
Staying with Jacqueline and her family was really nice experience. We could get to know her family and how is the life in the village of Guatemala. Her mum was also making lot of diferent handcraft and they also had a small restaurant.Read more
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San Juan La Laguna
October 8, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
This day we hitchhiked to Lago de Atitlán, which is the deepest lake in Middle Amerika, in the deepest part has 350m. Around the lake are many villages and each of them is very unique. The easiest way how to travel around the lake is by boat.
This night we stayed in nice hostel by the lake.Read more
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San Marco, San Pablo & Santiago Atitlán
October 9, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
San Marco is village known for its hippie vibes. There are many yoga hostels, shops with natural cosmetic, vegan restaurants and many hippies.
San Pablo is more touristic villages with many restaurants, souvenirs shops and cacao and coffee places where they're also making tours about it.
In Santiago Atitlán, where we also had our couchsurfing, is more authentic village, showing how people really live. For example you can see women washing their clothes in the lake as they we doing that since very long time.Read more
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Malacatán
October 10, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
Even through we woke up into rainy morning, we decided to try our luck hitchhiking. Luck was on our side and as a 2nd car big truck took us for 3 hours drive.
In Malacatán we had a really nice couchsurfing with Candy, so because of the rain we most chilled in her house and went just for a small walk. We also try some lokal liquor and we made chipilin soup.Read more
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Catarata de la igualdad
October 12, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
This day we went for a day trip to this beautiful waterfall and hot spring. It was just a few people there and we could enjoy relax day.
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Tonalá
October 13, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Hitchhiking to Tonalá was bit harder, because of the situation with refugees, there are many people trying to get to USA from all South America, especially Venezuela. We saw a big groups of people walking by the road also trying to hitchhike sometimes.
Few times even happend to us that some people stopped wanting to give us some money.
In the end we got safely to Tonalá where we had a great host Dzoara. We had really nice conversations even though we had to comunicate in Spanish.Read more
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Boca del Cielo
October 14, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
This day we went to a one day trip to the beautiful beach where we got by boat and spend nice chilled day. We had a great meal and nice afternoon.
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Tehuantepec
October 15, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
In Tehuantepec we had very different and interesting couchsurfing experience. We stay with Guillermo and were hosted at his work place where we could also meet his colegues and have a great meal. We also did some exercise together and he told us a lot about his job. He works as a doctor in one clinic. We even got a chiropractic session.
We also met his family and cooked together some delicious meal.Read more
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Workaway in Zipolite
October 28, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Last two weeks we spend in beautiful place in the hills close from Zipolite. We were doing some bioconstructions. We had amazing time with the girls.
At the weekends we visited villages Zipolite and Mazunte, where we could enjoy sea and great food. Both of the villages had very hippie vibes. On Zipolite is the only nudist beach in whole Mexico :D.Read more
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Puerto Escondido
October 29, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
For the weekend we went to Puerto Escondido - the surfers paradise. We went to the local market and different beaches. On Sunday we went to the church where we met really nice people and later we played volleyball with them on the beach.Read more
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Way to Oaxaca
October 31, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Way from Puerto Escondido to Oaxaca is with many curves. It's just 250km but you need 7 hours by car. As we hitchhiked we needed little bit more time. Passing many villages we could see people preparing for Día de Los Muertos.Read more
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Día de los muertos
November 1, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
We got the possibility to stay with local family, which we know through friend Taby, who stay with them for one year.
It was the best way how we could celebrate this days.
We could prepare the oltar "ofrenda" for their daughter who died 3 years ago. We could try many different dishes, dance on the square with costumes, bring part of the meal to other neighbors and family members and in the end have a party on the graveyard.
It's a very nice tradition and it's nice that people remember those who die with a lot of joy and take it as a time reunite with a family and close friends.Read more
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Oaxaca
November 3, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
We went to visit the city centre of Oaxaca, we tried local drink Tejate - made out of corn, cacao beans, mamey seeds, and special florecita de cacao. We also tasted some sweets and explore market with lot of handmade products.Read more
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Hierve el Agua and Mitla
November 4, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Hierve el Agua is very beautiful nature area where are waterpools where is even possible to swim. There is also beautiful view on the mountains. The way there was quite adventure driving through the mountains with the colectivo on the way back we asked some people on the parking space and they took us to Mitla.
There we explore the market and walked around the city. On the way back we saw the wides tree in the world with circumference of 54 meters.Read more
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Puebla
November 7, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
In Puebla we had a great time, meeting many people, exploring small streets, tasting different food. Simon also got the opportunity to play at one caffe place bacause our couchsurfer is musician. We really love the city and we will spend more days here.Read more
TravelerSchön, dass Simon endlich Mal wieder Musik machen konnte
11/13/22Reply
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La Malinche
November 11, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Our highest mountain so far - La Malinche 4461 m.
Hitchhiking to the entrance took as a loot of time and we were scared we will not have enough time to go all the way to the peak.
Luckily we had a lot of energy and managed to get all the way up in 3,5h. The view were stunning and weather was on our side. For the way back we join american group and could go with their bus back to Puebla.Read more
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Cascada de Ahuehuetla
November 14, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
We enjoyed beautiful day with Jos and Diana, walking to the amazing waterfall area. We overcome our fear and jump from the rock inside. Enjoyed sunshine and beautiful nature, place almost without any tourist.Read more
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11/23/22Reply
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Atlixco
November 15, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Around Puebla are many beautiful towns ,one of them is Atlixco. It's a town full of colourful streets and there is also nice hill with great view. We visited there friends from Chile which we met in San Cristobal.Read more
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Iztaccíhuatl
November 18, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
We managed to overcome our high record again. Iztaccihuatl volcano with high 5000m. The actuall peak is 5250 but as we didn't have equipment for the glacier, we didn't hike all the way up. It was amazing experince.
We slept over in refugio and started hiking at 4 a.m. to the peak, where we could watch the sunrise. It was super cold, but with sun we unfreezed again. From Iztaccihuatl we could see active volcano Popocatepetl.Read more
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México city
November 24, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
In Mexico city we spend almost a week, staying with our host Álvaro and his two friend Julio and Daniel, who became like our Mexican family.
Mexico city is super big and has many parts to explore. Simon got sick in his stomach and had to rest for 3 days.Read more
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Cuernavaca
November 26, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Julio took us to his summer house, where we could enjoy time by the pool, we went the birthday party, where we broke our first "piñata" and the next day we explore the city with his cousins.
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Toluca and Nevada de Toluca
November 30, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
In small village close to Toluca we stayed with Eliška and Kevin. They showed us the town Malinalco where they lived before. The next day we went for a camping and hike to Nevada de Toluca (another volcano). Unfortunately I got sick and had to stay in the tent.Read more
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Tepoztlán and Amatlán
December 1, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
In Tepoztlán we had couchsurfing at beautiful place, we stayed with Isaac whose job is growing psychidelic mushrooms. 🍄🍄
The town was really pretty with views on the mountains. 🗻With many tiny cute streets and coffee places.☕Read more
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Orizaba
December 5, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Orizaba was for us surprisingly nice town. There are many places to visit and the people there are also super friendly as not many tourist goes there, it's kind of special for them to see some "strangers".
We went to eat very yummi burger 🍔 and explore the area around with lagunas and beautiful nature. 🏞️Read more
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