Articles tagged with: mexico
Have you ever heard of snuba-diving? If you thought I’ve confused the C for an N here (as in scuba), you thought wrong.
The word Snuba is composed of the two words snorkel and scuba. And that’s pretty much what it is, something in between the two. Snuba divers use also swimfins, a diving mask, harness, regulator and weights as in scuba diving. Pretty much an ideal invention …
Baja California, Mexico’s Southern extension of the American California not just geographically quite the opposite of its American counterpart. It consist to large parts of dry, fruitless land with the reputably lawless Tijuana in the North and the touristy, soulless resort town of Cabo in the South. The latter was probably my least favorite place in Mexico, I therefore could not wait to get out of it. I decided to …
It has not even been a year and my heart already longs for you again. You are beautiful, you are calm, you have a lot to offer, you gave me warmth and confidence. Thinking of you, fills me with wonderful thoughts of sunny days, turquoise water miracles, long white sandy beaches and never-ending romantic summer nights.
I fell in love with you the very second I saw you – your beauty has …
I traveled through about 15 cities all over Mexico and because it was the month of March, I encountered delightful, yes perfect weather, almost everywhere I went. Not too hot, not too cold – just right. La Paz was the exeption. I stepped out of the bus and was hit with a hammer of heat. It was so hot that even the cab ride with 4 open windows didn’t feel …
No matter where I travel, I always keep an eye out for the local market. Often, markets are prime spots to really get a feel for the culture you’re traveling through. A place sustained by and for the locals, the market is to the city what the kitchen is to the house. As a vibrant center of commerce, family living and socialising, it’s a perfect place to witness and portray …
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of meeting a guy called Nick, who is the head of marketing in Europe for Contiki, the world’s largest operator for young group travel. Up to that point I wasn’t even aware that there was group travel specifically for young people and had I known, I would have probably assumed that it caters to people who have no friends or those who …
Trying out the local cuisine when traveling is one of the most delicious ways of getting to know a new culture. With my obsession with hot food I found one of my favorite spots last year: Mexico! I was lucky enough to spend some time with my Mexican buddy’s family, and his mother whipped up fantastic dishes for me every day. If you’ve eaten at Tex-Mex/Mexican restaurants in other countries …
Mexican Culture is diverse and holds many aspects that might seem a bit odd for westerners. Food, traditions, customs can be quite particular and few places show them off quite as well as the market place. When our hostel in Mexico City offered a free tour of the mercado mexicano we didnt’t have to think about it for too long and tagged along to be overwhelmed with a one of …
Swimming with sharks? Or whales? Or both? I achieved what seems impossible- I have been swimming with Whalesharks.
My summer travels started in Guatemala, continued to Belize and finished in Mexico. As soon as I crossed the border from Belize to Mexico I heard nothing else, but the word “whaleshark”. Everyone was talking about their unique experience with those sea creatures. Due …
I was extremely surprised when I came across this article the other day, talking about tourists paying to go on a simulation of a Mexico-USA border crossing. The participants pay a relatively small fee (one is cited as 15 USD) to race after mock human traffickers without food or water. The slow ones are captured by “border patrol vans” and “deported”. For me this rang a similar note to Favela …
