A similar day today, with some 2 hours on the beach in the morning. Then some shopping in the afternoon... but in the evening we had a delicious fish dinner at the restaurant "Insula" - The Island - situated on a lake next to the sea. Then we went to a terrace and watched the second half of a football game while enjoying some desert.
Only about 2 hours today on the beach, the sun was too hot. But the water was excellent and no waves today. In the afternoon - some shopping and some "sightseeing" - the resort is quite small... not too much to see - but the atmosphere is nice and quite peaceful.
A bit cloudy in the morning, but around 11 o'clock we left to the beach. A bit winddy, not too hot, very big waves, the water was pretty warm and I got a bit sun-burned in just 2 hours of sunbathing. After lunch, we walked through the shops and checked out the center of the resort.
The Mexico flight scenario seemed to be repeating on our flight from Helsinki to Bucharest. Already boarded, the pilot started up engine one, then engine two... then he told us that the start-up sequence of engine two was not correct, so he reported the problem and we were awaiting techicians to check the engine. We stayed for half an hour waiting in the airplane then they decide we'd better change the aircraft.
Last day in Mexico. An excellent breakfast offered by our hosts: fresh orange juice, fried nopal (a variety of cactus), aguacate, beans, fried eggs with some nopal again, some unidentified vegetable with the taste similar to zucchini, boiled carrots.
Then we went for some shopping for some three hours. Then an as delicious lunch as the breakfast and then straight to the airport, saying goodbye to our very hospitable hosts, the Garrido-Martinez family.
Wednesday was the day we visited the pyramids in Teotihuacan, some 40 km from the capital. An impressive site of the Aztecs. We climbed both the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid and walked to the Temple Quetzalcoatl (Temple of the Feathered Snake). In we evening we had an unbelivably delicious dinner.
On Tueusday morning we left Puebla by bus shortly after 8. We arrived in Mexico City around eleven and went straight for a sightseeing tour. We visited shortly the Find Arts Museum, then the Garribaldi Square where the "mariachi" play their guitars. Them we climbed up the Torre Latinoamericana from where we admired the views over the city (139 meters height).
Then we visited Zocalo, the main central square of the city, and next to it the Government Palace which has some famous murals by Diego Rivera, the husband of Frida Kahlo.
Next during our tour was the Chapultepec Castle, a really beautiful place, something like the Peles Castle in Romania. After that we got back to Zocalo for dinner.
On the second day in Puebla we went for lunch around 11.30, as we had an early breakfast around 7.30, and of course, they were not serving lunch at that time. So we went for a small juice (half a liter glass) and a fruit salad. Well, we had no idea how big the portion was, so we fought with it for some time and it ultimately turned out to be our lunch.
After "the lunch" we visited Cholula, a village near Puebla, where the Spaniards built a church on top of a pyramid, to defy the locals. After returning to Puebla, we went for more shopping.
On Saturday evening we got on the bus towards Puebla - an over 8 hours trip. The bus had only 24 sits on 3 rows, with sits which can be set up as almost horizontal beds. An unbelivable experience, and by the way, the bus network in Mexico is very well developed, covering the whole country, with modern coaches and huge bus stations, as they have almost no trains at all.
Puebla is an old historical city built completely by the Spanish. Its center resembles to a European Middle Age city. One outstanding characteristic is that it has lots of churches, almost one on each street. We took a hotel in the center for 2 nights for about 22 eur a night for a double room (same price as a hostel private ensuite). We then realized it was a 4 star hotel (but actually it did not look to be more than 2 stars).
The ground floor of all the buildings are shops. It seems everybody has something to sell... And the majority of them are shoe shops - all of them offering the same models. In addition, they prepare food on the street, soup, nachos, anything. People eat on the street, by the kiosk, sitting on a small chair, keeping the plate in their hands.
