In the silver city of the world, Taxco

Of course, this is any girls' Paradise :) I bought a couple of silver rings and stuff myself, and Monica bought more of course:)

The town was nice and cozy, very narrow streets . It's a very strange feeling to wonder around in the town, because it is situated in a steep rise (bad english?), and with the narrow streets and the steep rise, it's kinda special to observe the traffic and the architecture.
Example of a corner in Taxco:

In the silver city of the world, Taxco

Again, the cabs are ALL Volkswagen bubbles, here you can see the rear end of one of them:

On the third day we managed to get on the bus towards Taxco.

written by  Flusher on July 13, 2005 from Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico
from the travel blog: Mexico - 2005
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Acapulco was a big city, much more "western" than any other mexican city we had visited so far. It had McDonalds, Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood etc..It was a cool shopping city!

A strange thing about the city: All the cabs are Volkswagen bubbles!

Laying on the beach in Acapulco for white people is very disturbing! We were approached by sellers every 30 second, it's true! We got sick of it, so we decided to take the bus to a laguna-area a little bit north of the city: Pie de la Cuesta.

But we also saw the "real" Mexico here, very dirty streets and backyards..! VERY dirty!

When we walked out of the air-conditioned bus, we were met by a WALL of warmth and high humidity! But we loved it!
We checked in on a fantastic luxurious hotel (Hotel Emporio). Now we had 6 days on this hotel, all-inclusive :)

We went down to the beach immediately! After about 15 minutes something tragic happened. A women on the beach started screaming, hysterically! we knew that something terribly bad had happened, swimming guards ran out and started swimming out to look for someone. 15 minutes later, they came back to land with a 16 year old boy, dead...a tragic start on our first week on the beach..

The next day, we went out on Ixtapa Island to snorkle and chill. When i had snorkled about 10 minutes, we were ordered to get back on the mainland, the reason for this was a hurricane-warning! The hurricane never came..

The next 4 days we just relaxed and chilled on the beach in Ixtapa - wonderful days :)

San Miguel was a really nice town. Many narrow streets, with cafe's and small markets all over. It also has a famous catedral (picture), this was amazing architecture, really nice!

On our second day in San Miguel, we took the bus to a town called Guanajuato. Here we went to a mummy-museum. It was interesting enough, but we felt that we had been there before..this was because we visited a similaer museum in London the year before...but the town is worth a visit!

We also spent a day just wondering around in San Miguel, we liked the town very much, very nice, with a pretty big marketplace.

Well, time to pack again, next stop is Morelia!

written by  Flusher on June 28, 2005 from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
from the travel blog: Mexico - 2005
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..a nice town :)

On our way back, we visited an aqualand, you can see me throwing my girlfriends mexican cousin up in the air :)
I also set out a glass of soda, the vasps got crazy! hehe :)

I really thought that it was a bit more space for my legs on a jumbo-jet! I had to crunch my legs for 12 loong hours..ouch! My daughter Emilie, 4 years old, managed the trip better than i had expected, she loved flying! :)

When we descended and landed in Mexico, the pilot says: "Well, i hope you remembered your 'brellas, because it's a rainy day!". I thought, cheezez! We have travelled around the globe for sun..and here it is raining..?!

We got on the bus, which was extremely good standard in Mexico! Now, a 3 hour bus-trip lay ahead. Our destination was Tequesquepan (or something like that).
When we arrived, me, Monica (my girlfriend) and Emilie (our daughter) fell asleep within 1 minute! Exhausted from 26 hours transportation.

written by  Flusher on June 24, 2005 from Mexico, Mexico
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