ChCh to Auckland to Santiago to Lima
24 сентября 2015 г., Чили ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
Lima
24 сентября 2015 г., Перу ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
PayPurix Hostel Lima Airport - excellent hostel, really lovely people, so helpful and kind.
Didn't venture far, three blocks and had my running shoes on...not feel the safest. Got a piece of pizza.
Havana
25 сентября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Five hour flight to Havana.
Arrived in the afternoon.
Had a good meander around the city...walk and bus. Got totally lost as per.
Found Cafe Paris....home away from home.
Used "hop on hop off"Читать далее
Cienfuegos (Pearl of the South)
29 сентября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
On way saw -
# SANTA CLARA; has Che Guevara mausoleum and memorial.
# CIGAR FACTORY
Trinidad
30 сентября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Life in Trinidad.
Spent a lot of time wandering around town.
Bought - painting, clay bell
To and return from -
# SALTO DE JAVIRA, waterfall and swim.
Camaguey
3 октября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Travel via -
# VALLE DE LOS INGENIOS, aka Valley of the Sugar Mills. Went up the tall tower.
Out socialising, as per.
Declined to play baseball!
Louise and I found nice square, good place to spendЧитать далее
Santiago de Cuba
5 октября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Stop off to see the National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Charity.
Not a friendly place.
38C at least.
Off to see -
# Cemetery - body is buried, then much later, is exhumed, the bones, etc areЧитать далее
Baracoa
7 октября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
A day travelling.
Travel via -
# GUANTANAMO LOOKOUT
# A beach for lunch and swim
A lovely wee town to stay in for a few days.
More socialising.
Decided not to go on an island excursion, notЧитать далее
Havana
10 октября 2015 г., Куба ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Fly from Baracoa to Havana.
Mexico City
11 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ 🌫 16 °C
Flew in from Cuba.
At night, look at the city, then taken to Garibaldi Plaza - busy and festive. Had wonderful margaritas.
Teotihuacan
12 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
The ancient city of the Mayans.
Climbed the pyramids of the Moon and Sun and walked the Avenue of the Dead.
Puebla
14 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Oaxaca
15 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Out to a Mescal Bar...shown how to drink mescal with salt and chilli with crushed worms....no problem at all.....very very smooth.
PanAmerican Rally passing through the city . Lots of oldЧитать далее
Tehuantepec
17 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Went via -
# SANTA MARIA DEL TULE; to see the Tule Tree, is the stoutest tree in the world with diameter of 14.05m and circumference of 42m.
# a MESCAL FACTORY; bought a bottle of the good stuff andЧитать далее
San Cristobal de las Casas
18 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ 🌫 22 °C
Travel via -
# SUMIDERO CANYON - a wet and chilly day. Realised hadn't enough clothes to cover this kind of weather.
Travel to and return from -
# SAN JUAN CHAMULA VILLAGE; the church is a blend ofЧитать далее
Palenque
20 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Travel via -
# MISOL-HA WATERFALL
# AGUA AZUL WATERFALLS
Travel to and return from -
# PALENQUE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ZONE - very enjoyable and photogenic
Campeche
22 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Travel via -
# GULF OF MEXICO; stop for lunch and swim.
A quaint place.
Received alert notice from NZGovt regarding Hurrican Patricia - was north of us.
Merida
23 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
Travel via -
# UXMAL RUINS - rather nice.
Playa del Carmen
24 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Travel via -
# CHICHEN ITZA; examples of Mayan-Toltec civilisation. Enjoyable to wander.
Bought - silver pipe, small skull.
A very busy tourist place.
Cancun
25 октября 2015 г., Мексика ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Taxi to Cancun.
To a fantastic, busy, restaurant - lovely food and margaritas.
# Tomorrow, fly out to Lima, Peru.
Mexico to Lima
26 октября 2015 г., Перу ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Fill in the day wandering around Cancun.
Taxi to airport at 8pm.
Red wine called for.
Flight from midnight to 5am, Cancun to Lima
Lima
27 октября 2015 г., Перу ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Flight arrive early; immigration and customs very quiet, I was on my own for most of the walk through.
Accommodation same as before; Dennis picked me up.
Silly me, didn't book a room for the night ofЧитать далее
Lima
28 октября 2015 г., Перу ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
More photos.....
#Buildings and Balconies
Lima to Santiago
28 октября 2015 г., Чили ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Another flight with 3 seats to myself...am getting use to this.
Slept a bit on and off.
Forgot I was flying during the day and some of it over land...looked out, and there were LOTS of mountains, withЧитать далее
Santiago
29 октября 2015 г., Чили ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Set off for the day exploring, with maps, information and camera.
Went all over the place.
I like Santiago -
# very busy, lots of people dressed in dark coloured clothes
# lots of traffic, buses,Читать далее