Now, I am chilling on the beach… Just to make your mouth water a little: 30 degrees, clear blue sky, clean beach with great surf, cheap beach-side bars, starting with beers at 12 and cocktails at six and watching awesome sunsets over the sea. I am loving it.

From San Cristóbal de las Casas, we took a three-day tour to Laguna Miramar, in the middle of the Chiapas rainforest. It was an incredible experience, very tiring but awesome fun. Just to give you a small glimpse: Two hours to Ocosingo by comfortable first-class bus, then seven hours on the back of an oversized [...]

You know you have finally found an internet café with a fast connection when the guy next to you starts looking at some online porn. Need I say more? UPDATE: I don’t know whether I just missed these yesterday or whether they were put up in response to yesterday’s “experience” but now there are signs [...]

When you are in a bus station, security staff is trying to look as important as it can (maybe, just maybe, they can look just as important as their colleagues at the airport do, right?) and you see a sign informing you that it is forbidden to bring firearms, knives, livestock or fish onto the [...]

I will be on the road travelling the south of Mexico starting tomorrow night. I finally decided I am not in the mood to spend 24 hours in a bus to get down there and bought a plane ticket to Villahermosa, from where my itinerary will take me approximately as follows: Palenque, San Cristóbal de [...]