Articles tagged with: mexico
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 …
Earlier in the year I spent a month in Mexico, and loved it! One of my favorite spots on the whole trip was La Manzanillera on the Michoacan coast, a tiny beach in an area surrounded by some great surf spots. We stayed at a small camping site where we enjoyed fresh quesedillas before or after letting the sun shine on our bellies as we lounged around in hammocks. In …
