Mexican Mix - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!

Visited a government travel bureau in Cancun who gave ideas of  a bus route back to Mexico City - so after Tulum we visited the village of Bacalar famous for its 7 coloured fresh water lagoon. The lake was wonderful but not being in the travel books is not geared for tourism and we really struggled to be understood. The next town was Chetumal for an overnight bus to San Cristobal de la Casas - we arrived earlier and visited the Museum of Mayan Culture - a fantastic display. We had a late afternoon meal then waited in the bus depot for the 9:50pm bus which was late and left at 11pm. The road system in Mexico is very good however they have speed humps on all country roads even main highways wherever there are schools and dwellings and the busses  come to a near stop to cross. Coupled with the Mexican army road blocks, checking for drug and weapons transportation - we had 5 bus searches on this trip - its slow going.

Two guys at the front were yacking on all night so I thought I didn´t get any sleep however when we alighted at San Cristobal at noon and went to get our hotel address from my tote bag, that had been stowed overhead I discovered both my cameras stolen along with my Netbook with all the travel pics (at least no-one will be bored with our travel slideshow). Also took A$350 & US$100 which was last of cash in travel folder, but thankfully didnt take passports and travel docuents.

Being tired, suffering some sort of cold, and running a temperature, San Cristobal was stinking hot to me, and  spening 2 hours in  the hot police station reporting the theft for travel insurance wan´t fun - I felt sick and didn´t want to be here - "wouldn´t it just be wonderful to be home!"

This morning the sun rose as usual and being somewhat recovered with appropiate medication we set out to explore our environs. San Cristobal is beautiful (it doen´t match Taxco though) with adobe colonial buildings - the biggest building is the cathederal which is not overly grand. Now armed with a new camera we will have a few photos to show. We leave here tomorrow night (night bus again) for 11 hour trip to the city of Pueblo.

We are just thankful we have this blog as a record of our travels - will just need a computer savvy friend to find a way to get it off the Internet. Oh yes don´t expect any Skype calls folks - don´t remember account name or password  - its the problem of automatic sign-on!