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…
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…
Our Mexico guidebook has an impressive photo of a Mayan temple gracing it’s cover and after a bit of research we discovered that it was Palenque. The description of Palenque therein described ruins in a jungle setting with fewer hoards of tourists, and thus we were sold before we ever got here. The ruins grab…
After our stay in Matanzas, we planned to go to Havana for five days before ending our Cuba stay in Varadero. We figured out the bus system, which is cheap and easy to figure out (Viazul), but at the bus station there were enterprising Cubans offering the trip in their own vehicles for essentially the…