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    • Dag 108

      Christmas in the mountains

      24. desember 2019, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Our Christmas started with a breakfast of dry bread - unfortunately the only bread we could get in town. At least it was filling, so we were ready to hit the road again. The first part of rolling and pretty exhausting. Plus, as a Christmas present, I got bit by one of the wild dogs - right in the ankle. (For some reason, dogs always go after me, never after Herbert) Luckily, the bite wasn't too deep, so it could be fixed with desinfection spray and plasters. What a start into the day...
      However, it could only get better. Our route continued with a continuous climb up into the mountains. The views were amazing and not much traffic either. We had a lunch stop with a view - unfortunately with that dry bread again. But afterwards, it was only a few kilometers left to our destination: San Jose del Pacifico. It's a cute mountain village with some tourists, but not too many. We really like it and started with a beer on the sun deck, followed by a great Christmas dinner, the sunset and a final beer and regional chocolate in our cabin. Not a bad Christmas after all... Merry Christmas everyone!
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    • Dag 109

      Vamos a la playa turistica

      25. desember 2019, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      As we spent Christmas Eve in the mountains, we wanted to be at the coast on Christmas Day. The route was one of the best we've cycled so far. We passed tiny mountain villages, enjoyed stunning views and curvy downhills. So we stopped quite often to take photos. We also had some steep climbs in between, so in the end, it took us longer than expected to get to the coast. Instead of going to a smaller village further along the coast, we decided to stay in Huatulco. Kind of a bad choice, as it's full of tourists at this time of the year and available hotel rooms are scarce and totally overpriced. It took us quite long to find an adequate room. Also, when we checked out the beach, we didn't feel like swimming anymore because of the crowds. So we just bought some food, cooked dinner and called it a night.
      At our hotel, we met Ivan, a Brazilian cyclists who had cycled from Canada to Mexico so far. He gave us some advice about biking in Central America which will for sure be quite useful in the future.
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    • Dag 111

      Puerto Escondido... Beach time again!

      20. februar 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

      Yes we're at the beach again, 3 days of city and we're back to relaxing 😂 this morning we walked from our hostel to a local beach called Puerto Angelito, it was about a 10min walk down and it was absolutely beautiful, the tide was rough here but perfectly good for swimming in, the water was so clear and really warm... Good for snorkeling too👌🤗💦 We also had some amazing mexican seafood here, fish tacos and prawn enchiladas 😋😋 with lots of picante 🌶 of course!Les mer

    • Dag 111

      Gerald & Denzel's Seabound Adventure

      20. februar 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

      We heard from the owner of our hostel that there's a beach just out of town where you can release baby turtles. It was quite a walk from where we're staying but it was definitely worth it! The beach itself was stunningly picturesque and after a 20 minute walk across the sands we arrived at the little hatchery where they release baby turtles every day, they must have thousands of eggs this time of year as about 30 people turned up and everyone got their own little turtle in a coconut shell 😍
      I named my turtle Denzel and Charlotte eventually named her turtle Gerald. It's impossible to tell the gender of the baby turtles until about 1 year so we'll never know if they were aptly named! Once (a little clumsily) released Gerald had no problem getting to the ocean. Denzel on the other hand seemed to want to do anything but go into the sea. After about half an hour and several helping hands later he (or she) eventually made it and we waved him (or her) off and hoped that they all didn't get eaten by seagulls. A few of them did get scooped up despite the best efforts of the volunteers to keep the birds away! 😰 Only about 5% of every 1000 turtles reach adulthood so we've got our fingers crossed for our little turtle babies 🤞
      After they'd gone we watched a beautiful sunset and made our way back to town. On a side note we also saw some whales off on the horizon while we were releasing the turtles which was a nice bonus. Such an amazing experience in an equally amazing place!
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    • Dag 112

      Puerto Escondido Bioluminescent Bday

      21. februar 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

      So it ended up being my birthday here in Mexico (its not all about me, but was for this one day only lol 😂) zach surprised me with some lovely jewellery that he bought way back when we were in Ecuador 🇪🇨 and the story goes I was chillin by the beach while he went off for a 'hair cut' in Montañita! I loved the jewellery and proceeded to wear it all day on my birthday of course! 2 women (Helen from the UK and Niaomi from Rotterdam) we met in our hostel (Paziflora) overheard us at breakfast talking about what to do for my birthday, so decided there and then we we're all to meet in the evening for beers in the lovely hostel garden... After our tour to the bioluminescent lagoon!! 😊👌 Perfect! It was a heavy night of many beers and chatting until the early hours of sunrise and birds tweeting around us (including the hostels parraket 'Nino' 🐦😍). Anyway the bioluminescent lagoon was amazing, even though we couldn't get photos of the luminescent algae, we were able to swim in the dark of the evening with them! We took a boat out down the lagoon rivers around 8pm, and the stars were soo vivid, we've never seen anything like it! As we got to the sides of the mangrove trees all around the river edge, we saw the water light up as the tour guide stopped the boat and stamped his feet! The algae started to glow brightly. This is a defence mechanism when they are scared, but as a result glowing under water only attacts the sardines to eat them, so there for the sardines start to glow too! ...ahh natures way! 🙄 It was something we had both never seen before, as we jumped into the water the algae glowed around us, the more you moved, the move they glowed in the water and on us! 😀 We spent about 30mins in the water splashing around making the algae glow, as we got back on the boat our swimwear still glowed like pieces of glitter when you touched it! A great experience not to be forgotten.. Or photographed lol👌😍. When we got back to the hostel thats when the party started for my birthday, even with a little cake and a birthday song sang in Spanish / English... We tried lol 😂. Zach also cooked us some amazing faijas that day in-between our chilling and lagoon tour...why not as they have the best ingredients for them in Mexico 🇲🇽 😊😉Les mer

    • Sabado 29 de febrero

      29. februar 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Mais ist hier Grundnahrungsmittel und wird in verschiedenster Art zubereitet .Mit unterschiedlichen Maissorten: gelbe, blaue bis schwarze, alte und neue.
      Bekannt ja in Form von Tortillas in den Ausprägungen
      Tlayudas, Memelas, Tostadas, Empanadas, Quesadillas, Burritos, Nachos. Aber auch in Tamales. Das ist polentaähnlicher Maisbrei mit Huhn und Mole Negro. Wird in Bananenblatt verpackt und im Topf gedämpft.
      Gibt es auch nur mit Mole in Maisblättern gedämpft.
      Mole negro ist eine dunkle Sauce mit individueller Zusammensetzung. In jedem Fall kommt Kakao / bzw. Chocolate ( entspricht nicht ganz Schokolade)
      dazu.
      An ambulanten Ständen wird Mais als Esquites ( Körner gedämpft ohne Kolben) z.B. mit Käse, Chapulines und Salsa angeboten und als kleine Mahlzeit zwischendurch verputzt. Oder in Form von Elotes als gegrillter Kolben mit salzigem oder auch süßen butterigen Überzug geknabbert.
      Die Bilder haben wir heute vor Santo Domingo aufgenommen. Am 29. 2. gabs dort eine Hochzeit nach der anderen. Immer mit viel Musik und Tanz. Der Aufwand ist hoch. Hier heiraten nur die Betuchteren.
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    • Dag 166

      Oaxaca

      19. februar 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Zwischenstopp für eine Nacht in einem weiteren süßen Kolonialstädtchen mit historischer Altstadt, die - zurecht - ebenso wie Puebla von der UNESCO zum Weltkulturerbe gekürt wurde. Ich schlendere einen Vormittag ziellos durch die malerischen Gassen und lasse mich treiben, mühe mich die Treppen in der nahenden Mittagshitze zum Obervatorium über der Stadt hoch und stärke mich in einem niedlichen kleinen Café, bevor meine Reise weitergeht und ein langer Tag im Bus bevorsteht.Les mer

    • Dia internacional de la mujer

      8. mars 2020, Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Heute haben die Frauem demonstriert für gleiche Rechte und soziale Sicherheit. Mexico hat ja bekanntlicherweise ein Gewaltproblem mit hohen Tötungs- und Mordraten.Davon sind Mädchen und Frauen in besonderer Weise betroffen, weil Machismo und Kartellkriminalität sich Frauen als Opfer suchen.
      Dagegen protestieren Frauenbewegung, Feministinnen aber auch viele Männer aus Gesellschaft und Politik.
      In Oaxaca wurden Meetings und Demonstrationen organisiert. Morgen soll Frauenstreik sein.
      Wir sympathisieren mit den Frauen, haben aber unseren eigenen Weltfrauentag begangen.
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    • Dag 12

      Puerto Escondido

      28. mai 2022, Mexico ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

      Possibly the worst time to visit a beach.
      I didn't realise until I arrived in the town that a hurricane was expected to arrive within the following days.

      Because of the awful weather, I didn't manage to grab many pictures but my time here involved watching the champions league final, drinking as many beers as possible, including plenty of card games, in what felt like lockdown conditions, aswell as a trip to the beach on my second last day which ended with a seafood platter and then thunderstorms and torrential rain.

      Unfortunately the seafood was so good it was eaten before I even thought of taking a picture.
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    • Dag 169

      Puerto Escondido 🌊

      19. juni 2022, Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      In einem tollen Airbnb mit Pool haben wir eine Woche in Puerto Escondido genossen. Wohl unsere letzte Stranddestination auf unserer Reise. Highlight war Eli‘s 30. Geburtstag 🥳, den wir gebührend gefeiert haben mit leckeren Drinks, gutem Essen und den wohl bequemsten Liegestühlen. 🦐⛱🍹Les mer

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