Mexico
Our major motivation to go to Mexico was to attend the Andreas + Hitomi
wedding, but it turned out to be quite a lot more. Even though less nice
and more expensive than the countries visited so far, Mexico had a lot to
offer and served as the perfect ending for the trip.
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One face of Mexico city..
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..and the other. 18.7 million people, huge amount of pollution + cars.
Time to get out, fast! Had a fun evening with Andreases friends on
the town and went to sleep too late.
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Waiting for the taxi to reach Texcoco where the wedding
were to be held. Had we known better we'd taken a bus, which cost 1/6th
of the price and traveled in 1/2 of the time. Doh!
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4.5
Wedding day. Waiting outside the church for wedding couple -- and everyone
else, for that matter -- to arrive. Amazingly us, the atheist Finns, were
the first ones there.
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When the japanese girls arrived we kinda knew having arrived to the
correct wedding (there were multiple in town that night).
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The wedding couple.
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The garter being thrown. Andreases big brother in the front row, and I
think he got it too.
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The bestman + me, after lots of.. cake
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Our ticket out of here! Literally. Got up at 0900 and headed for
Acapulco to recover from the wedding.
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The bus to Acapulco cost 30 usd but was worth it -- more legroom I could
enjoy, free drinks, 2 undubbed movies.. the 5 hours just flew by.
(ok this ticket is the return one, but hey, we lost the other ones)
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Went to see the legendary cliff divers of Acapulco
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Here's the overall view of the area. Above the cliff you see the altar
where the divers pray before plunging into the narrow gorge 35 meters
below.
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ok here we go.. sploisssshhhh
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To my surprise they also climb the wall before jumping. Huh!
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Baris enjoying "Einstein", a fruit drink
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Loveboat? :)
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Kimmo and Susanna were sick after the wedding, but managed to arrive
anyway, and we took a day cruise together the next day. Good deal, 22 usd for
a 4 hour trip -- since it had an open bar.
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90% of the taxis in Acapulco were VW Beetles, which were constructed
in Mexico in the 90s.
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Taking a walk around the only island in Acapulco, some kind of national part.
Turned out to be a longer walk than expected :-)
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Cold beer had never tasted so good before as it did after the sweaty
1-2hour hike.
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9.5
Sunset over Acapulco. The others left 2 days ago and me + Riikka
been just relaxing ever since. In the morning we move towards Mexico City
+ the airport again. 20 hours of travel ahead..
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10.5
A bit over month of time spent, 15 flights taken,
thousands of kilometers traveled, thousands of euros burned, and now what?
Time to head home -- the plants need watering.
Matti & Riikka
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