Mexico is a beautiful country filled with an amazing, terrible and incredible history. Each town, village or city has a unique feel and the food by and large is delicious. This post covers what we think are things that are helpful to know if you are planning to visit Mexico. Safety – Perhaps a product…
Mexico City is the largest city in North America and, rightly so, has millions of things that you can do. We both feel like we’ve had long days wandering the city and various sights, and yet when we look at the big picture, we have barely scraped the surface. Aside from our time exploring the…
The Museum of Anthropology was high on my list of things I wanted to check out when we came to Mexico City and it did not disappoint. It was especially enlightening as we’d been to Mayan and Aztec ruins, helping to shed some of the mystery surrounding what we saw at those incredible sights. Here…
We’ve got a hat-trick of pre-Columbian Meso-American ruins under our belt! Since we’ve started out trip we have made it to two different Mayan ruins, those in Chichen Itza and Palenque. The country is abundant with ancient history, and so we had so many others Meso-American ruins to choose from for a third and final…
After our two week stint in Puerto Vallarta, we decided to head to Guadalajara as it seemed like a conveniently located place before we hit Mexico City. We’d heard of the city before, but really knew nothing of what we would see, feel and experience. We arrived at the bus station after dark and so…
So far each place we’ve been in Mexico has had a completely different feel. Sure there are lots of similarities, but there is a distinct character in each locale and Puerto Vallarta is no exception. The city cozies up to it’s malecon with a Centro area full of beautiful buildings, bars and great perches to…
We are into the second week of our stay in Puerto Vallarta. The reason we have been stationed here for two weeks is because we are taking Spanish language lessons at a school here. When we signed up, we opted for a homestay with a local family to have the opportunity to practice a bit…
A common tour offered from Puerto Vallarta is a day trip featuring the Marieta Islands: uninhabited islands with an abundance of aquatic life and interesting rock formations due to military bomb testing by the Mexican government in the early 1900’s. We signed up for a tour that included snorkelling, whale watching and a visit to…
One of my favourite things whilst traveling is meeting up with other friends. You get the opportunity to share memories with them outside of the regular life you normally lead in your home country. We’ve been lucky to have a network of friends who also love travel and so have met up with friends in…
Mazatlan. It’s one of those winter getaway tourist destinations that we, as Canadians who ‘suffer’ through dreary and bleak, frigid and unforgiving winters, are familiar with. Well…at least by name for us. We assumed Mazatlan would be like what we saw in Cancun, or in Varadero (on our Cuba trip last year): a steady flood…