sorry, it took some time...!

hey everybody! i am doing well, sorry for not writing for a long time... and thanks for some worried mails (even though that was not the reason for not writing for such a long time! but it was nice to get more mails then usual!!). the reason was just that sometimes its difficult to find internet with the possibility to upload pictures...and sometimes its difficult to find the time!

so in guatemala we climbed the vulcano the next day after my last blog...it was quite nice - but when we finally got up there it was so cloudy that we could not see anything!! but still it was a nice walk.


lake atitlan, where san pedro is located




up on the vulcano




me with "el abuelito"

 this is the biggest and oldest tree on the vulcano...and preople call it "el abuelito", "the grandfather"


on the top with amy and sean




it was quite cold up there!




down again...through great nature




coffee plantations on the vulcano - the red berries are ready!



small palm tree in the lake




locals washing




lago the atitlan




market in san pedro - women with traditional clothes



great fruits...mangos and bananas



tamales...polenta, filled with meat

  its quite good, really cheap, and typically cooked in a banana leafe or a mais leafe




the lake again



some beautiful graffities!!!




2nd paragraph...haha thats the service of a internet cafe!!




old man in traditional clothes of the area of san pedro

 the people have their own traditional clothes, and as well in the villages around the lake they speak their own language.


sun rise

  from san pedro i went up north again, one more time to mexico!!

 the first city where i stopped was san cristobal de las casas, where i have been before. and it was a sunday again, so i went to the market a second time! and managed to take some more pictures!!


selling chicken




selling more chicken!




tacos - typical mexican food. small tortilla with meat and onions




all babies are transported like this



as you see!



some shops here are like this - in guatemala most were!

 you ring the bell, somebody comes, and you order what you want to buy!


from san cristobal i went in a 14 hour busjourney to mexico d.f. (mexico city), where i met adriana again!
in the city as well as in whole of mexico you often see that their presidente, calderon, is quite unpopular. he tries to stop drug and human traffiking to the US with a huge military and police presence...which costs the life of thousands and thousands of people.

a sarkopharg with the 40.000 people killed because of calderon



the main cathedral



"more than 35.000 killed, 70% unemployement, 9.0000 more poor,..."



popular job...and a popular restaurant!




me, the cathedral, and shoes "from" the dead




street art!!




thats how i expected mexico!

  one day we went to the ruins of teotihuacan. i saw many ruins in mexico already, but all of them were in the south, enar the border to guatemala - and they were all maya ruins. teotihuacan is older than the maya ruins, and besides all the pyramids and temples was once a huge city - probably the hugest in pre - columbian america, with about 200.000 inhabitants. the ruins are still impressive...


the "avenue of the dead"




a tourist - but not a gringo!

 because gringo doesnot just mean white, but means us american! but i am often mistaken...


huge pyramids




my reason to return to mexico!




beautiful view!!



its nice there...but exhausting, because there is no shade




view from the second pyramid (pyramid of the moon)




looks like this - everywhere!!




pyramid of the sun (right) and of the moon (left)




this is really a mexican stereotype, no?!




they are huge...!




in the streets of mexico city



and another mexican stereotype!!!

 we went to a birthday party, and then went more south...back to merida. about the journey you will see in the next post! hope you are all doing well...

hasta luego sevi