we had a bit of an issue getting to xpujil (in the south of campeche), the bus we were meant to get on, never showed up, we got our tickets changed though, and got on the next bus. we arrived in xpujil about 4pm (on a saturday), which is pretty much just a town on the side of the highway. there are restaurants and hotels, but not much else, we didn't look too hard for a place to stay, and ended up spending the most for accommodation of the whole trip....
we arrived in san cristobal de las casas at about 7.30am on a wednesday, very tired, but at least not sick from the bus ride (i don't know how ozzy got through it 
). found a hotel that had a triple room (as well as free internet, thank you lonely planet), and settled in. i was ready to go, but ozzy needed to catch up on sleep (that's right, i'm calling you out 
), so by the time we got out and about, about 11am, it was too late to get on any tours (except for one afternoon horse ride, which we declined)....
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we arrived in oaxaca city on a warm, and sunny (though hazy) monday afternoon. the bus ride was pretty cool, through some mountainous, and rugged terrain; the arid, cactus-laden landscape that one would expect from mexico. unfortunately, we couldn't stop and take any pictures, so all those mountains, rock formations, and cacti will have to remain memories in my head ....
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we arrived in puebla on saturday evening, with ozzy still feeling like crap, alf wasn't a lot better, but at least wasn't bed-ridden. didn't do too much that night, went for a wander down to the zocalo (which has a pretty impressive cathedral on one side, though we didn't really have a look) for dinner, but not much else, it was busy, but by the time we went back to the hostel, it was quieting down pretty rapidly. we only had one full day in puebla, the options were cholula and volcanoes....
i was going to post this at the end, but have decided to do a double post tonight. this will be a review of the transport that we used to get to and around mexico. things didn't start off well though, we had an american airlines flight (run by qantas) to los angeles delayed by about eight hours (initially they said about six hours)....
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we left mexico city on thursday morning to go up (north west) to papantla in veracruz state, from where we would pay a visit to the el tajin ruins, and then onto xalapa to visit the anthropological museum there. we arrived in the afternoon and immediately found it warmer than mexico city (more tropical), wandered around and finally settled on a hotel, that was worse than we expected (more later). the plan was to visit el tajin on the friday, leave for xalapa friday afternoon, and do the museum on saturday....
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we arrived in mexico city at around 6am on a sunday, and headed for the hostel straight away (i'll post reviews on transport, accommodation, food and drinks as separate items when i have finished doing each region). we were able to get three beds in a dorm, two other people were sleeping when we got there. we slept straight away, to try and catch up a bit, and eventually around 2pm, we finally got out and about around the zocalo....
oh, it's been a month, and now i'm finally back at home in melbourne. got back this morning, and really should be sleeping as i haven't had much in the past two days, but thought i'd put in a quick update as the site has been stagnant the whole time i've been away (obviously). we left guadalajara about 9am (melbourne time) yesterday, waited at the dreaded lax for three hours (i watched the spurs take game three ), before leaving on a painful and tiresome 15 hour flight to melbourne, arriving this morning just after 8am....