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Four months travelling Latin America - here we go! Leggi altro City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

KZKgoesglobal Honduras
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- 28 nov 2023, 21:22
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitudine: 597 m
- Honduras Copán Quebrada El Sesesmil 14.837895, -89.15378114°50’16” N 89°9’14” W
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Copan Ruinas
28 novembre 2023, Honduras ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
📍Copan Ruinas, Honduras

*And it's goodbye Guatemala, hello Honduras* God, I love alliteration, and that was one of my finest pieces of work...

So far, so good on the Gringo Express tour through Central America. Our first stop is Honduras, where the reputation precedes itself, and we were honestly a bit nervous to travel through alone, so we're going as part of a group. Of course, it turns out to be perfectly safe, and we've had the best day exploring the town and then going to a thermal spa. It was pretty rustic swimming around through caves and rock pools, and we just couldn't get over that we're really here in Honduras. The final photo shows just how pleased as punch Adam was to be splashing around in water again after a one day hiatus.

Next stop, some Mayan ruins tomorrow, before we zoom off to El Salvador.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore How colourful it all looks.
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KZKgoesglobal I know! Seems a common theme everywhere we're going which is fab!
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Viaggiatore Another great destination by the look of it.
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KZKgoesglobal One of our faves!
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KZKgoesglobal Guatemala
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- 26 nov 2023, 11:40
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitudine: 1.581 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sololá Panajachel 14.74361, -91.15679514°44’37” N 91°9’24” W
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Lake Atitlan
26 novembre 2023, Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
📍Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Lake Atitlan is a bit of a juxtaposition in my opinion. It's got super serene waters, incredible sunrises, and beautiful greenery, but then the towns surrounding it are loud, chaotic, ramshackle, and sometimes hippy. BUT boy oh boy, those lake views were worth coming here.

Highlight was getting a boat across to another town to take on the 13 metre jump into the lake (Adam, not me, obviously). You can hear the worry in my voice as I watched my travel partner hurtle towards the water, which was deemed scarier than doing a skydive. Terrifying. Also watched someone lose a go-pro jumping in and get charged $200 "just to look" for it unsuccessfully. Also terrifying.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore Just keeps getting better and better
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KZKgoesglobal I know! Such a beautiful lake 😍
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Viaggiatore More amazing photos, thank you!
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KZKgoesglobal Glad you like them 😍
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 19 nov 2023, 12:59
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitudine: 31 m
- Messico Estado de Quintana Roo Othón P. Blanco Bacalar Fuerte de San Felipe de Bacalar 18.676202, -88.39116218°40’34” N 88°23’28” W
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Bacalar
19 novembre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
📍Bacalar, Mexico

🥇 - The medal awarded to Bacalar as the most beautiful place I've ever been in all my puff!

Once a series of individual cenotes, it's now one big, crystal clear, turquoise lagoon. Bacalar is one of two places in the world to have stromalites in the water too. They're organisms which are three million years old and grow one millimetre each year! Only downside to the town is that they seem super focused on tourism, and you worry the ecosystem will take a hit in years to come. But until then, what a joy it is to swim in fresh water where you can always see the bottom and it's soft and muddy on your feet. Mmmm.

We did a SUP tour at sunrise, which was quite different from the last time I did it in the Scottish Highlands. Obviously, I ended up at the back, and Adam was the sporty teacher's pet doing tricks at the front. Classic. There's now talk of buying his own paddleboard for the Union Canal... Save me now.

That's us at just over 10 weeks in now. Adam's got 5 weeks left (I've got 7 😇), and it's really made us slow down and think about how grateful we are to be here, how quickly it's flown by, and that there's not much time left!Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore Maybe we should put Bacalar on our bucket list, it looks amazing. So great to hear your tales and to see you having such fun x
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KZKgoesglobal Come quickly! They're building a Maya train starting next year which will connect Bacalar to Cancun in 1 hour... imagine it will become a day trippers paradise 🥲 It's so beautiful!
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Viaggiatore As ever Adam enjoying simple pleasures. Sounds very interesting and looks great
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KZKgoesglobal He's a sporty spice that's for sure! He seems to be great at every activity we do 😲 Hopefully we'll get some more water sports on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, our next stop after Tulum.
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 15 nov 2023, 19:22
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitudine: 23 m
- Messico Estado de Quintana Roo Othón P. Blanco Bacalar 18.68151, -88.39660618°40’53” N 88°23’48” W
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Mérida
15 novembre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
📍Mérida, Mexico

Once voted one of the safest cities in the Americas, Mérida locals are so proud of their peaceful and successful home. It's got a real charm to it and is as colourful and pretty as we've come to expect when visiting other similar places in the area. We're a big fan of walking tours, so needless to say, we did another one here and learnt more about the Maya history and that apparently it's so safe because many cartel family members live here...

Photos taken over a few days, but you wouldn't be able to tell, as Señor Watt wore one outfit the whole time. He's very much in his football shirt era, where I've been forced to go to sports shop after sports shop to pick up obscure local club tops (which he'll then pretend are real when he gets home obviously). In fairness, it's probably quite a good idea because in our experience, walking anywhere in the Yucatan heat means you're immediately dripping in sweat. Lovely.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore Very nice football shirt!
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KZKgoesglobal That's quite a nice one! A local Colombian team from the football match we went to (already forgotten their name, woops)!
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Viaggiatore Place looks great. We saw it on the Eva Longoria programme. Seemed to be a real foodie destination.
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KZKgoesglobal Oh really? We didn't notice it particularly, but the food has been amazing everywhere
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 13 nov 2023, 12:35
- ☀️ 32 °C
- Altitudine: 14 m
- Messico Estado de Yucatán Mérida Autonomous University of Yucatan 20.96934, -89.62728520°58’10” N 89°37’38” W
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Chichen Itza
13 novembre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
📍Chichen Itza, Valladolid, Izamal and a cenote, Mexico

Arrived to Mérida, and fired straight onto a big tourist tour to another one of the seven wonders of the world. Turns out it was our best organised excursion of the trip and we managed to squeeze in visiting a few smaller towns in the Yucatan area too which were so pretty (and had cheap street tacos)! Learning about Maya culture was fascinating and one of the best things we discovered is that if you clap at a specific point at the bottom of the pyramid, a quetzal bird noise plays back at you created inside the structure, which is A 97% ACCURACY to the real bird 🤯

Then we visited our first cenote, big water holes created by meteors (supposedly). And as usual, Adam was absolutely thriving in the water. Him and a nine year old boy were competitvely taking turns to run and jump off the diving platform, and he's never looked happier.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore I love it! The Yucatan looks fascinating x
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KZKgoesglobal Honestly we LOVE Mexico! So glad we have a few weeks here, still deciding where to go next. Think we'll visit Quintana Roo too....
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Viaggiatore It does all look fascinating. Lucky you 🥰🥰 xx
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KZKgoesglobal Thanks Fifi 😊 We'll need to get to Mexico together on our next adventure, you'd love it... 2026?!
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Viaggiatore Yippeee 🤣
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 11 nov 2023, 12:45
- ⛅ 27 °C
- Altitudine: 1.565 m
- Messico Oaxaca 17.066824, -96.71935517°4’1” N 96°43’10” W
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Puerto Escondido - dolphins and tacos
11 novembre 2023, Messico ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
📍Puerto Escondido, Mexico

A final wrap-up on our stay in Puerto Escondido - a sea safari followed by a fish taco night. After an hour of hurtling through the ocean at breakneck speed, I was ready to be sick, but then we spotted a pod of about 100 spinner dolphins, followed by a turtle and jumping manta rays. As ever, my handy goggles meant we could jump into the water and see the dolphins swimming next to us, which was really special.

Leaving this beach resort with mixed feelings in all honesty. We're mostly sad to say goodbye to our friends @livandjltravel, who we met by chance on a taco tour in CDMX. We essentially followed them here hehe and got to spend most days together exploring and chatting about life in Scotland and South Africa. They've really made our experience in Mexico so far, and there were real-life tears saying adiós 🥹 But also, by the end, we're happy to move on as we didn't love Puerto Escondido. The locals were not hugely friendly, and it's the first time we felt unsafe at times. So overall, it's a beautiful destination, but we're not sure we'd recommend it.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore The dolphin and turtle photos are fab
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KZKgoesglobal Thank you! Really cool experience to see them!
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Viaggiatore Still loving hearing of your travelling adventures, Kirsten. I'm so, so envious of you. I remember swimming with a turtle in Australia; swimming with dolphins ans manta rays must be up another level altogether. Treasure these memories Kirsten, you'll be recalling them, as Lou and I still do, in your old age. As I said previously, it beats most damp Thursday afternoons in the office, doesn't it? Your mum and Lou went on a protest march against the Palestinian genocide on Saturday. I was proud of them both. Trravel slowly, travel safely and looking forward to hearing about everything in the new year xx
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KZKgoesglobal Thank you John, definitely feeling very lucky to be here... especially as it gets so cold at home. Not sure about travelling slowly as we seem to be speeding off to experience millions of things and places, but we are safe and loving it! Proud of Mum and Louise too, would have liked to join too 🥰
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 8 nov 2023, 19:10
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitudine: 24 m
- Messico Estado de Oaxaca Santa María Colotepec Brisas de Zicatela 15.83438, -97.04099515°50’4” N 97°2’28” W
Giorno 13
Puerto Escondido
8 novembre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
📍Puerto Escondido, Mexico

Yes, the time came for us to take a holiday from the holiday 😅 After travelling pretty quickly round countries and cities, we needed some time to do very little and go to the beach. So, we changed our flights, extended our stay, and decided to go to the hidden gem of Puerto Escondido. All fine and well, except that every other gringo from Oaxaca also came here after the celebrations too... Turns out it's an expensive party place lol. However, we've still loved it!

For us, it's been exploring smaller beaches (and clinging onto the back of open 'colectivo' trucks to get there), surfing lessons, and some open-air BBQs with mezcal thrown in. What's not to love?!Leggi altro
Viaggiatore Looks like a hoot! Also, sporting some nice tans there A&K 👏🏻
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KZKgoesglobal Working on them slowly but surely!! 👏👏
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Viaggiatore Good to chat to you yesterday. Hope the surf lesson went well
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KZKgoesglobal We both stood up a few times, and Adam's going to try again solo today. I'm going back to the bodyboard 😆
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 31 ott 2023
- Altitudine: 1.567 m
- Messico Oaxaca 17.067905, -96.72627417°4’4” N 96°43’35” W
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Oaxaca
31 ottobre 2023, Messico
📍Oaxaca, Mexico

An *unbelieveable* experience for Day of the Dead over the last few days. They say Oaxaca is the best place to celebrate it in Mexico, so we (and what seemed like half of America) paid through the nose to stay here and tick it off our bucket lists. Health and safety regs were out the window with the sparklers into the audience from wooden structures, but the costumes and atmosphere were unbeatable!

The festival is rooted in spirituality and gives Mexican people time to think of loved ones who have died and to call their souls back for a few days to remember them. They offer dead relatives and pets, tokens of things they liked, and guide them back with the brightly coloured marigold flowers that are literally all over the city. The tradition still exists, but for tourists, the celebration is about following parades down the streets and getting involved with all the open-air concerts they put on.

Oaxaca itself seems really beautiful and colourful with the prettiest decorations all over. Everywhere you turn, you just want to take another picture. Even Adam has taken about 6 pics here!Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore Such a cool thing to have done, love all the colours! What a vibe 😍
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KZKgoesglobal You'd love it Nikkin! Get the probiotics out and plan another trip 🇲🇽
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Viaggiatore 😂😂😂 I’d have to go nil by mouth!
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KZKgoesglobal Mexico
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- 29 ott 2023
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitudine: 2.258 m
- Messico Ciudad de México Anzures 19.427069, -99.17752119°25’37” N 99°10’39” W
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CDMX
29 ottobre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
📍CDMX, Mexico

We ❤️ tacos. No really, we are in absolute heaven in Mexico City with all the tacos there are to eat and all the things there are to see. I'm going out on a limb to say it's our favourite place on the trip so far.

We're staying in the Roma Norte area, and it's SO cool, and very hipster. So I won't lie my battered Tevas look horrendous when I'm walking around, but we're surrounded by underground markets, Australia-inspired coffee shops, independent artisan boutiques and queued-out-the-door taquerías. In parts, it honestly feels like we could be in Barcelona or Paris, and it seems really safe. Coupled with the fact that it's Day of the Dead and Formula 1 happening this weekend, the city is literally jam-packed with extra people.

Normally, there are 21+ million people living here, so I'm sure there are other sides to the city, but in the few days we've had, we couldn't have enjoyed it more.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore 🌮🥰🌮🥰 xx
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Viaggiatore Looks absolutely fantastic in the photos
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Viaggiatore Glen says you suit a mullet Adam
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KZKgoesglobal Hahahah, he's very pleased with this comment! Although I'm not encouraging him to keep it permanently 🤣
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KZKgoesglobal Colombia
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- 28 ott 2023, 13:53
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitudine: 2.236 m
- Messico Ciudad de México Cuauhtémoc Colonia Roma 19.423038, -99.1583419°25’23” N 99°9’30” W
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Medellín
28 ottobre 2023, Messico ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
📍Medellín, Colombia

Rounding off our 6th country with a wee visit to busy and bustling Medellín, where I was cajoled into going to a local football game tour. And let me tell you, the fans were absolutely MENTAL. We're talking non-stop chants, hanging off the stands, only holding onto their homemade flags, and jumping on the seats for the whole game. Meanwhile, we literally got dumped at a convenience store for our pre-drinks and drank shots out a carton with 40 other gringos before going along with our face paint 😅

But the highlight for me was visiting Comuna 13, once the world's second most dangerous place with 3.1 murders a day. It's now so colourful and buzzy with music and performers everywhere. A real Latin feel and it definitely sums up the spirit of Medellín.

And that's a wrap on Colombia. Honestly, I loved Cartagena here, but other than that I surprised myself as other countries topped it for me in terms of friendly locals, weather, food, and scenery... even though it was the country I wanted to visit the most! Saying that though, the coffee (and matching coffee merch I forced on Adam) was a win.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore Wow Kirsten, that all sounds a bit mad. Loved the football video xx
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Viaggiatore Adam's found a Fine Fellas!
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