Merida, Mexico, 17/1-2007
Route: Campeche - Hopolchen - Uxmal - Merida
I got up around eight. I had slept like a rock. It is a funny thing when you sleep on a room with others. In the beginning I wake up all the time, but then after a little while you get familiar with the noices and totally ignore them. I however found it strange that the others could ignore me, because my nose was pritty blocked, which means that I must have been snoring.
Breakfast was included in the stay, and I spoke with a girl and her boyfriend from Switzerland. They were planning to travel a year. Maybe I will ask my boss about a years leave the next time.
I then rode to Uxmal. This is also some Maya ruins that is in a forrest. I really enjoyed walking around there, because there were some paths leading away from the main ruins and into the forrest, and even for a untrained eye it was easy to see that it was just a little part of the city that was what we were shown.
I am now struggeling with the warmth in my riding gear. It have been very unpleasent earlier too when getting cought in the traffic jam, but now it is also to hot when riding. I therefore dicided to go to Merida where I was told that it was a store that sold protective gear, which is not very common to see people using when riding motorbikes down here.
Two policemen on a motorbike helped me finding the shop after a long while in low speed, and I was totally soaked by sweat. I bought a new more open helmet, for dirt riding, and plan to ship my old helmet home to Norway tomorrow together with some of my clothing that I do not need.
I also looked for some protection for the body in a more ventilated jacket, but the shop had that not in stock, so I have to wait until I get to Guatemala City, and see if Ivo have managed to find something for me.
The hotel I am staying at costs 250 pesos after I bargined it down from 300. It look nice and have a little pool that I should have tried before I leave, but the hotel smell like fart. It is a stange thing here in Mexico. A lot of the places smells a bit fatish.
I got up around eight. I had slept like a rock. It is a funny thing when you sleep on a room with others. In the beginning I wake up all the time, but then after a little while you get familiar with the noices and totally ignore them. I however found it strange that the others could ignore me, because my nose was pritty blocked, which means that I must have been snoring.Breakfast was included in the stay, and I spoke with a girl and her boyfriend from Switzerland. They were planning to travel a year. Maybe I will ask my boss about a years leave the next time.
I then rode to Uxmal. This is also some Maya ruins that is in a forrest. I really enjoyed walking around there, because there were some paths leading away from the main ruins and into the forrest, and even for a untrained eye it was easy to see that it was just a little part of the city that was what we were shown.
I am now struggeling with the warmth in my riding gear. It have been very unpleasent earlier too when getting cought in the traffic jam, but now it is also to hot when riding. I therefore dicided to go to Merida where I was told that it was a store that sold protective gear, which is not very common to see people using when riding motorbikes down here.Two policemen on a motorbike helped me finding the shop after a long while in low speed, and I was totally soaked by sweat. I bought a new more open helmet, for dirt riding, and plan to ship my old helmet home to Norway tomorrow together with some of my clothing that I do not need.
I also looked for some protection for the body in a more ventilated jacket, but the shop had that not in stock, so I have to wait until I get to Guatemala City, and see if Ivo have managed to find something for me.
The hotel I am staying at costs 250 pesos after I bargined it down from 300. It look nice and have a little pool that I should have tried before I leave, but the hotel smell like fart. It is a stange thing here in Mexico. A lot of the places smells a bit fatish.
posted by Øyvind Thiem at 6:15 PM
2 Comments:
Please add a map to your blog, so that we can follow your journey.
We've got a lot of snow her i Sogn the last days; About 50cm of powder! Missing Norway ?? - All the best...
I have planned to do that.
Will see when....
Oyvind
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