central america travelling

[bezdog]

anyone travelled around central america? me and a couple of mates were thinking of it instead of the usual package crap one of my mates fancies costa rica maybe
mexico city not the resorts like cancun etc want to see the real places want a cheap experience so not bothered about staying in hostels as i did stay in a hostel in new york and met better people and had a better experience tbh
anywhere in central america any advice much appreciated thanks bluemooners.

 

[Axel Foley]

get yourself to guatemala mate.

 

[bezdog]

get yourself to guatemala mate.

yeh never thought of there why whats in guatemala dude?

 

[Axel Foley]

Generally a mixture of...

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Pretty good combo really

 

[bezdog]

Generally a mixture of...

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looks good axel have you been pal where did you stay?

Pretty good combo really

 

[Axel Foley]

I actually haven't been! I spent a long time in South America and everyone that came down through central america raved about Guatemala and I've wanted to go ever since.

You could always just get a flight to Bogota and get messy in Colombia. Bit of Caribbean, bit of jungle, bit of city and bit of Pacific!

 

[Scrabster Six]

Mexico City is a great city lived there for many years just got to keep your wits about you like any other city and the pyramids of Teotihuacan are just outside the City also get to the Estadio Azteca well worth a visit. Costa Rica more for the enviromental type of tourist not much happening in San Jose. Chiapas in Mexico is well worth a visit as well.

 

[bezdog]

I actually haven't been! I spent a long time in South America and everyone that came down through central america raved about Guatemala and I've wanted to go ever since.

You could always just get a flight to Bogota and get messy in Colombia. Bit of Caribbean, bit of jungle, bit of city and bit of Pacific!

yeh sounds good would you just stay in hostels when you got over there?how do you travel all over the place ? backpacking a bit dubious as i havent done out like that before but i went to new york on my own and that was ok but just think its a bit rougher in central america or is it like anywhere else??just keep ya whits about ya ? any good sites or books i could look at to give me a bit off an insight thanks?<br /><br />-- Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:10 pm --<br /><br />

Mexico City is a great city lived there for many years just got to keep your wits about you like any other city and the pyramids of Teotihuacan are just outside the City also get to the Estadio Azteca well worth a visit. Costa Rica more for the enviromental type of tourist not much happening in San Jose. Chiapas in Mexico is well worth a visit as well.

thanks was talking to a homeless man watching the england match the other night and he was raving about it saying it was great the women are lovely
they love the british accent (dont know how true that is) he said he had family in belize or something he also said he could get 20 fags and a beer for about 70 pence plus said the drugs were great if your into that sort of thing and theres plenty to see and do i was looking at flights worked out about 600 pounds return and the hostels in mexico city work out about 20 us dollars a night want to do something while im not working at the minute and a couple of my mates are up for it should be a bgood experience imo

 

[Scrabster Six]

The North of Mexico has good internal coach services such as ETN, Primera plus etc and a good route of motorways South Mexico not as good but unfortunately road links are not good in that area. Internal flights are expensive in Mexico.If you want to do Guatemala, Belize etc best flying to Chiapas.Hotels are pretty cheap if you are willing to rough the odd two star.

 

[neverred76]

Keep an eye on your bags at all times cos if you get to customs and they find any 'extras' in them it could extend your holiday....by about 20 years,