Day 51 - Wednesday 9th November 2005

After spending much of the previous evening planning the coming week, I woke up early ready to take a boat trip through the Canon del Sumidero. I went to a tour company who quoted me $160 Pesos but I would have to wait until the next day, so I used public transport and did it myself. I got to the departure point of the lanchas, waited about half hour for the boat to fill up (a minimum of ten people were needed for the boat to leave the dock) and we set off.

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Days 49 & 50 - Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th November 2005

When I arrived in San Cristobal at 9am after 12 hours on an overnight bus it was cold, raining and I was tired. Thus I decided to use the day to do some of the more mundane things one must do such as catching up on the blog and laundry. I did however manqage to find a bar that was showing the Spurs Vs Bolton game, so I watched that live. It was good to see some English football even if it was the wrong result.

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Day 48 - Sunday 6th November 2005

Yet again, it was a slow start to the day. When I did get going I hopped onto a bus with James, a lad on the last leg of an 8 month world trip. We travelled on the bus for an hour covering a staggering 10km when we reached our destination of El Tule. The village of El Tule although pretty, would not be on the tourist trail if it wasn’t for one thing - El Arbol del Tule (The Tree of El Tule).

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Day 47 - Saturday 5th November 2005

Saturday started slowly! Having got back to my hostel at 3am I woke up around 10am. After a light breakfast, Jeffrey the American guy gave me a lift on the back of his motorbike up to the ancient Zapotec capital Monte Alban, or White Mountain. The journey took about 15 minutes up a mountainside, reaching the flattened hilltop on which the ruins stand.

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Days 45 & 46 - Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th November 2005

After a journey that took me about 10 hours, 4 to get to Puebla and then 6 to go from Puebla to Oaxaca, I needed a beer. Thursday night drinking is for winners after all! When I arrived in town I was looking for somewhere to stay & I bumped into one of the girls with whom I had been on the trip to Teotihuacan the Saturday before. She told me where she was staying & the price ($70 Pesos/night) and I thought it was as good a deal as I was going to get, so she took me there.

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Day44 - Wednesday 2nd November 2005

At the start of the trip, there was a comment left on the blog from a girl named Karina offering me a tour of Xalapa if I ever made it that way whilst in Mexico. It so happened that Xalapa is only an hour away from Veracruz by bus, so I decided to make the most of the offer and take it up.

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Day 43 - Tuesday 1st November 2005

I caught the bus to Veracruz on the Gulf coast in the morning, and arrived after lunchtime. I quickly realised there wasn’t much going on in the town and that I was going to struggle to find things to do. It reminded me a bit of Felixstowe where I used to work, with not much happening and a stiff breeze blowing in from the coast!

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