Mexico City - Puerto Escondido

Mexico City, amazing city but very high pollution level. We had a nice rest staying at Rafael's. After a quick visit in the Centro Historico we were ready for the beach... vamos a Acapulco and the Pacific Coast.

On our way we stopped and slepped in another magnificient little village : Taxco. Streets are a maze, narrow and so steep that ir was hard to drive through with our Jeep in the middle of all the old Beatles. We finaly managed to paark safely in the center to be the first ones to vist in the morning.

Another 4 hours drive and we were swimming into the deep polluted blue of Acapulco's Bay... not very attractive but refreshing. Hopefuly, heading south down the coast we will find nicer beaches.

The next day we found ZE spot! miles of sand only for us after a short walk through bushes. After 6hours driving from Acapulco on dirty roads with "topes" every mile, we deserve it!

Our luck does not end here as we discover Puerto Escondido. Nice surfer town, starting just to develop tourism, turning it into a very enjoyable place to relax. Watch for it, in 10 years it will be unfortunatly the New Cancun.


After these few days on the playa, we are ready to drive back to the mountains and the ruins, direction Oaxaca, then Palenque.

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From the Mexican border to Mexico City

Crossing the border at Laredo (US) to Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)...
Everything went fairly quickly : immigration, car permit, car insurance... all in the same building. But who do we need to give our I94 US visa forms to ? carramba ! we were supposed to surrender them BEFORE the bridge, at the US border ! so here we go, crossing the bridge again (walking this time). In one our and half we were clear, driving on the Mexican roads.

Here begings the real Latin American Dream ! But we have to drive more than 500 miles before our first real touristic stop besides cactus encounters (very large population of cactus or weird palm trees in West Northern Mexico...).

We visted our first cities :
Zacatecas, amazing city (UNESCO classified)... see the pictures by yourself...
Then Aguascalientes, we our not intellectual enough to appreciate this city, but we can experince our first Mexican quesadillas (much smaller than in the US)...
Then Guanajuato (it should be classified two time by the UNESCO). This city is built on the side of a mountain and small houses are litterally on top of each other. Cars can drive UNDER the city, in the maze of tunnels under the city. We never saw such thing.

And the first ruins :
Ruins of Tula. We are the first ones to visit this site this day, so we have fun taking pictures... But weren't the pyramides supposed to be bigger ? Ah ! we are not in the most famous ruins ? where do we have to go ? Teotihuacan ? Now I understand why this name sounded familiar !
Ruins of Teotihuacan : Temple of the Sun (amazinly high... my legs are still soar), Temple of the Moon and Quetzacoatl Temple... No Seniorita... the shade of the Feathered Snake is NOT in Quetzacoatl, it is in Chitchenitza and you can only see the shade on March 21. Carramba encore rate ! but it is so beautiful that it does not matter. Next time we will read our guides before we arrive at the place.

Mexican Roads ? the ones with "Cuota" are much better than the one in New Jersey (not very difficult you would say)... but they are much more expensive as well ! The problem is if you try the "Libre" ones, as the name says, they are free, but you end up spending more on gas because you have to stop every 30 yards at the "topes". The "topes" are bumps... but not regular bumps : killer bumps ! We'll try to get some pictures of them so you can see what we mean.

Now we finally arrived in Mexico City and are staying at Raphael's. He very kindly offered us to stay at his little weekend house just outside of Mexico City. So we are enjoying a real bed, a real shower, and all the confort needed after a week on the road. It is really appreciated, thank you very much Raphael !

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