There are two choices of ferry from Mazatlán to Baja California Sur – a passenger orientated ferry and a commercial ferry (TMC). The latter is slightly cheaper and has the advantage that you are allowed to stay with your vehicle during the 18 hour passage. The downside is that although ideally we would want to be parked on the uncovered […]
Although it falls at the same time of year (end of October, start of November), this Mexican festival is very different to Halloween – it is a two day holiday that reunites the living and dead. Families create “ofrendas” (offerings) to honour their family members that have passed. These altars are decorated with bright yellow marigold flowers, photos of the […]
Next stop? Tequila! But first we visited the Guachimontones ruins (yes, I know) which were quite different to what we had seen before. These ruins comprised three stepped circular pyramids surrounded by raised platforms on which there were once roofed wooden structures. Two had been restored and one left as was – hardly discernible. We camped next door at a […]
The La Carrera Panamericana, or ‘La Pana’, is a multi-stage, multi-day, Mexican road rally with multinational teams competing. Dave wanted to spectate and we arranged our route so that we would camp at the start of Special Stage 9, just north of Guanajuato. That left a few days beforehand and we set off from ‘Pasty Town’ (Mineral del Monte) to […]