the first week: cancun, chichen itza, campeche

So these are some pictures from our first week in Mexico. We flew into Cancun and didnt stay there for long. The pictures appear in reverse order here because Im still learning how to get everything working just right. The bottom photos are from our first hostel in Cancun, which was really quite nice. It was 20 us dollars per person, or 200 pesos to stay there for the night wich is kind of expensive for a hostel, but it was a great place to crash our first night. Everything is colorful and made out of concrete or adobe, and all of the sidewalks are extremely narrow. Trying to get down a crowded sidewalk with my backpack really makes me feel like a giant. Theres no recycling in mexico, so there are A LOT of plastic bottles and other trash on the sides of the road which is a real bummer. Right now were in San Cristobal de las Casas and its beautiful. We will be here for a month, so we are going to rent a house! Its really cheap, only 1300 pesos for the month each, and it will be really comfy and save us a bunch of money. I have a bunch more pictures of San Cristobal that Ill put up sometime in the next week or so. Using the internet is kind of a hassle because you either have to pay for it, or you have to hope that no one else is using it. Oh well. More thoughts later. Oh, and the keyboards here are different and I cant figure out how to use the apostrophe.

The walkway near the library in Campeche

Some fancy dancers with beer bottles on their heads, campeche

Im not sure what this is counting down to exactly, but it is counting down to 2010

Campeche dancers

My most delicious tamale in a banana leaf

The ocean side in Campeche. Its on the gulf of Mexico.

Ocean

There are weird shaped lights on the buildings in Campeche

There is also a wall surrounding the city of Campeche

A cathedral

Bricks that make up many of the roofs

There is never a dull floor in Mexico

or door

or hallway

or sidewalk aparently. There are HUGE steps down to the street in some places,

and you really have to watch your step.

A campeche street

The wall looking in to the park

Las tres amigas

An awesome hallway in Chichen Itza

And a great wall in Chichen Itza

Some of the ruins of Chichen Itza

and again

An iguana!!!!!

Our first hostel











the three of us on our beds the first night