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Santa Ana – San Salvador

13 May 2013

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After two parties, one for mother’s day and the other a birthday it was on to the capital city – San Salvador. I stopped by the really pretty Lago de Coatepeque, even though I think Lago de Atitlán is more gobsmacking. The one advantage Coatepeque has other than the lack of lots of tourists surrounding [...]

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Yo Creek -> Caye Caulker

30 April 2013

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My alarm went off at 4:30, and I was out of bed by 5, but still didn’t leave the house until just before 6. I was planning to head south, to the Mayan ruin of Lamanai and then beyond through roads varying from badly potholed to sandy beach so as to not double back. Mike [...]

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Sancti Spiritus -> Havana

24 March 2013

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today’s ride was one of the most pleasant so far due to its ease, the beautiful scenery, and the quickness with which we got to our destination – over 75KM before lunchtime. we awoke in the house of the lord, ate the food that the padre (named Elvis) had prepared, and were on the road [...]

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Baracoa -> Santiago

9 March 2013

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Nick writes about his bike trip (San Diego -> Ecuador is the plan for this leg) and has a Facebook page that is at http://www.facebook.com/PedalingNPaddlingSouth I’ve decided to share his writings for the parts where we rode together. http://domluther.smugmug.com/OneBikeOneWorld/Caribbean/Cuba/ is where all my pictures from Cuba are. I’ll link to some of them in the [...]

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Havana -> Baracoa

5 March 2013

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With winds being from the east and only having a month in the country, I was either going to have to just tour around Havana, or take some sort of transport. I went with the easy option of taking a Viazul bus from Havana to Holguin in the east. They are buses aimed at tourists [...]

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Valladolid -> Tulum

22 February 2013

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Ek-Balam, another ruin on Peter’s must-see list is 27km north of Valladolid. As our next destinations were towards the east coast, that wasn’t on our route. The road wasn’t busy enough to try thumbing a lift, so we went to a taxi company, left our bikes there and had a 25 minute drive up. We’d [...]

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Pisté -> Valladolid

20 February 2013

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We had camped only about 2km from Chichén Itzá, so we had plenty of time to pull down our tents and get there before it opened at 8 am. We were sat by the ticket booth eating breakfast when the first tour buses pulled up, before they actually started selling tickets. Although ruins are great [...]

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Mérida -> Pisté

19 February 2013

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After Mérida, we were on the home stretch, passing ruins such as Chichén Itzá, Cobá and Tulum, the colonial city of Valladolid and then to the Caribbean and the beaches at Playa del Carmen and Cancún, as well as the usual number of smaller, less well-known, towns. Cancún is the end for us as that’s [...]

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Santa Elena -> Mérida

17 February 2013

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The next day we rode to Uxmal, and were met by our most developed ruin to date. The entrance had a coffee shop, with a few tourists standing round at 10am enjoying their morning Coronas, surrounded by expensive looking shops selling half litre bottles of water for 25 pesos. There was also Infinitum Movil, the [...]

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Palenque -> Near Calakmul

10 February 2013

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I’d mentioned to Norman that we liked getting up early, well I did at least, and I was very impressed the next morning when at 5:30 I went to the bathroom and came back to find that Norman’s tent was taken apart and he was trying to pack it up. It was his first time [...]

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Flores -> El Ceibo -> Palenque

7 February 2013

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There are two sensible routes from Tikal to Palenque, even though Google Maps doesn’t know about either of them. One of them is through the new border crossing at El Ceibo. It’s about 180 km from Flores to the border at El Ceibo, and then it puts you in the state of Tabasco, about 80 [...]

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Tikal

2 February 2013

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As we weren’t going to Belize, we’d be heading back through Flores after Tikal, so we decided to leave some non-crucial things at Buenas Cosas to make the bikes lighter. Memo tried telling us that it was dangerous to ride to Tikal but, with two years of experience so far, I was pretty un-moved. The [...]

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