Exit post #2 this time! We´re about to take Mayo to the airport so here´s a little coverage on what we did in the last few days. Let´s see, hmmm, right… ehm… not much! After Rio Lagartos we made another effort to get to Isla Holbox. Once again: no bus! 2 seconds of thinking (accumulated) made us decide to go to Isla Mujeres instead. We don´t understand why everyone is so lyrical about the place, you might as well call it Little Cancun. Anyway, the beach was OK and we got to chill out a bit. After all things have been so intense… ;) Oh yeah, the turtle farm was nice and so were some ruins we visited. Pity they locked us in and we had to climb over the fence to get out, which then again was good fun!

Our third effort of getting to Isla Holbox succeeded and we got to stay in a real mellow place, a crossing between a campsite, cabaña-thingies, dormitories, hammock-hotel etc! Holbox is way more laid-back than Isla Mujeres and we decided to stick around a bit longer. Some walks down the beach (the entire beach is over 27km long) took us along some very interesting spots, such as mangroves and weird sandbanks. The latter can be decribes in one word: surreal! See pictures of course :) Another short horseback riding trip was fun too, mainly because Mayo´s horse started kicking the **** out of Rene´s. Anyway, even Rene didn´t fall off and the scenery was nice too!

At this moment we are back in Puerto Morelos (anything is better than Cancun ;)), in a situation as described above. Enjoy the short series of kitsch pictures. Take care!

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Isla Mujeres - Playa Norte

Mayo. Oh yeah, and a sandbank.

Sandbank, nice view!

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So here´s yet another short update on my travels… and the very first post under the Honduras part of this site! So far I´ve been pretty much bouncing up and down the country, but with good reasons for doing so ;) First took straight off to Utila to go on a diving trip, however I got a nice little sinus-infection (which obviously sounds worse than it is!) so I couldn´t go out. Snorkeling was fun though… and so was the general atmosphere on the island. Anyway, there´s sufficient reason to go back once I (finally!) get my physique sorted out!

Leaving Utila appeared to be tricky as the number of ferries leaving the island was limited due to a rough sea, anyway I made it on time and went to Copan to see the famous Copan Ruins. I felt these were impressive enough to publish a series of pics for, so have fun watching below. Also tried out my cowboy-skills by going horseback riding in the hills around town. It sure is fun, but I guess they´d better given me a donkey ;)

So far I haven´t yet decided what´s up next; probably I´ll go travel around Honduras and see whether I can finally make it to the east coast… weather permitting! There´s still lots of fun stuff to do around here though so I might just as well decide on the spot, which means tomorrow morning when I wake up ;) I´ll do my best to keep you posted, and will try to keep posting more pics as long as this remains to be possible!

Se cuida!!

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Yet another one... can´t get enough of these!

Nice Mayan cartoons - Copan Ruinas

´Stadium´... or actually a religious centre

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