Mazatlan, Mexico, 8/1-2007
Route: Navajoa - Los Muchis - Culiacan - Mazatlan
The hotel had breakfast included in the price. It was continental breakfast. Now I know what continental breakfast is in Mexico. It was two different cerials, milk, bread, butter and strawberry jam. It works for me, but it was not actually what I was expecting.
Now the road goes through more cultivated areas. There are green fields and channels leads the water to the fields. At once there are no channels, the landscape is more desert like.
Most of the trip so far have been on toll roads. These are quite expencive, around 50 pesos (5 us dollar) which means that they are not that heavily trafficed. These toll roads are very nice with two lanes in each direction, and no pot holes, and you can go pritty fast . However, the road is pritty bumpy, so sometimes you wonder if it something wrong with the bike.
The last part of the road i chose to go on one of the toll free roads. This road had only one lane in ach direction and was not that heavy trafficed as I supposed it to be. The road was more curvey since it was located closer to the mountians, but I enjoid the going this way.
I had heard that mexicans were recless drivers. This is however not my view. The only one you should watch out for is the busses. The busdrivers drives as if he have stolen the bus and taken the passengeres as hostiges. Lorries and trailors go fast, but they are more careful. The speed limit, however, are not often respected. Usually it is 80 km/h, but people usually go 100 - 120 km/h. On bigger roads there are often 110 km/h and then people go around 140 km/h, I guess. My crusing speed is usually arond 60 - 70 miles/h which is around 100 - 110 km/h. I have not have had any problems with the police, but they focus their effort in towns and populated areas and there people usually stick to the speed limit.
Along the road is small memorials that the familys make when someone are killed on the road. These small crosses and small stone houses are decorated with flowers, and it makes you think twice before racing. I have not seen the statisticsfor the number of killed in the traffic in Mexicon, but judging from the number of memorials along the road it can not be pleasent reading.
In Mazatlan I found a nice hotel by checking the travel guide. It was called Lerma, and was a cheap hotel with relatively good standard (120 peso). Lerma also had secure parking, which is good when you are going to spend the night in a bigger town.
After checking in, I went to town to have something to eat. Again a bought something that was sold on the street, which is good and the price is ok. I then tried to call one guy living in Mazatlan and drives a motorbike, but could not get hold of him.
The hotel had breakfast included in the price. It was continental breakfast. Now I know what continental breakfast is in Mexico. It was two different cerials, milk, bread, butter and strawberry jam. It works for me, but it was not actually what I was expecting.
Now the road goes through more cultivated areas. There are green fields and channels leads the water to the fields. At once there are no channels, the landscape is more desert like.Most of the trip so far have been on toll roads. These are quite expencive, around 50 pesos (5 us dollar) which means that they are not that heavily trafficed. These toll roads are very nice with two lanes in each direction, and no pot holes, and you can go pritty fast . However, the road is pritty bumpy, so sometimes you wonder if it something wrong with the bike.
The last part of the road i chose to go on one of the toll free roads. This road had only one lane in ach direction and was not that heavy trafficed as I supposed it to be. The road was more curvey since it was located closer to the mountians, but I enjoid the going this way.
I had heard that mexicans were recless drivers. This is however not my view. The only one you should watch out for is the busses. The busdrivers drives as if he have stolen the bus and taken the passengeres as hostiges. Lorries and trailors go fast, but they are more careful. The speed limit, however, are not often respected. Usually it is 80 km/h, but people usually go 100 - 120 km/h. On bigger roads there are often 110 km/h and then people go around 140 km/h, I guess. My crusing speed is usually arond 60 - 70 miles/h which is around 100 - 110 km/h. I have not have had any problems with the police, but they focus their effort in towns and populated areas and there people usually stick to the speed limit.Along the road is small memorials that the familys make when someone are killed on the road. These small crosses and small stone houses are decorated with flowers, and it makes you think twice before racing. I have not seen the statisticsfor the number of killed in the traffic in Mexicon, but judging from the number of memorials along the road it can not be pleasent reading.
In Mazatlan I found a nice hotel by checking the travel guide. It was called Lerma, and was a cheap hotel with relatively good standard (120 peso). Lerma also had secure parking, which is good when you are going to spend the night in a bigger town.
After checking in, I went to town to have something to eat. Again a bought something that was sold on the street, which is good and the price is ok. I then tried to call one guy living in Mazatlan and drives a motorbike, but could not get hold of him.
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