Tenosique: Cowboys, culture and almost in Guatemala!

Here we go, another trip to tell. Lukas and his girlfriend Julia actually wanted to plan a trip to Belize and a few of our house wanted to join him. So we “ordered” Ferdinando to our house to give us some advice for the trip. He came with Ovidio and so we started the discussion. In the end the outcome was that we will not go to Belize but to a place called Tenosique in the province Tabasco, where the parents of Ovidio are living.

Roadtrip!

There we are: Tabasco, the province where Tenosique is located!

It was a 6-8 hour trip (depending on how often you stop for food and stuff – we needed 8 hours :-D).

Cumpleaños | Birthday | Geburtstag

Dear all my friends and my loving family!

Since this i my first birthday i spend apart from my family and my friends, it is probably quite different for all of us. This is one of the moments which I would like to spend here and also in Austria with all of you guys! Unfortunately this is not possible, so what I want you to do is having a good time while thinking of me, talking about me and have a drink on me! Well at this point I have to thank my uncle Kurt, because I just read the blog from his "trip around the world" the first time (I know thats 6 years ago now, but when I was 17 I wasn't very interested in reading blogs ;-))! I like the idea of you guys talking and thinking about me, because so do I!

Thanks for all the good friendships and family I have, even if it's not always easy caused by distances! And I am also grateful for all the experiences I had and will have with you people! :-) I hope you have a good time and we will all come together, when I arrive in Austria!

Thank you!

Un fin de semana que fue chingon y pocamadre!

Alright ladies and gentlemen! I really have to apologize for not writing the last weeks! But I had to fulfill my tasks as a student, so I unfortunately had a lot of homework, projects and exams to do. Besides the bunch of work I had to do, I also had to travel and all the stuff together was probably the reason why I didn’t blog anymore. But since there were a few requests I decided to continue to write this week. Maybe with more pictures than text, but I don’t think that you mind, because sometimes pictures can describe more than thousand words :-)

Well then I start with our trip to Tulum and Akumal. It was a very beautiful and very casual (or how the Mexicans would say “tranquilo”) trip. We were altogether eleven people with a rented minivan to go there. We started at the 17^th of August during the early morning to get there. Somehow a Mexican road trip always includes beer, even if it starts early in the morning :-D 

A few hours later we arrived in Tulum at our camping place which was quite amazing, because there were just a few people. Generally the people we stayed were backpackers and travelers around the world. So the atmosphere was also very special and absolutely not touristic at all! And now I remember that I charged my camera all night and I guess accidently I pushed the power-button when we stepped into the car. So when I wanted to take pictures I could because the battery was low. But I asked everyone else to also take some pictures of and for me so I can still provide you some! 

I guess a lot of people know this pictures from facebook yet, but for all the others - try to find me! ;-)

Desde Chichen Itza a Cenote y Valladolid

Hey people, I am very sorry i have been really lazy during the last time! But to be honest I had also some stuff to do. University life here is quite different to Austria. We have a lot of homework to do and the University takes a lot of time, as well because the connections via bus are not on the top! Since the University is like 30 minutes away from my place I really rely on the bus. Mondays I am even back at the commercial high school when getting up at 5:45 a.m. and starting classes at 7 a.m.! But it’s ok, since I have every Friday off I have a lot of long weekends :-) So far I have a very good time in Merida! I am just a little bit wondering about how I should write my Bachelor Thesis during this semester! That’s gonna be very tough :-D haha

So but I actually don’t want waste your time with academic stuff, this is not what this blog is supposed to be ;-) Andres, a Mexican friend of us offered me/us, whenever we feel like making a trip at the weekend we just have to let him know and he will join us. I guess he didn’t expect that call so early :-D He probably told me that on a party during the week and I think I called him like two days later (I am not quite sure actually, that’s what happens when you don’t handle your blog appropriate :-P). So we called him for a trip to Chichen Itza one of “The New 7 Wonders of the World” and he just agreed to drive us! Chichen Itza is about one and a half hour away from Mérida. We made the trip on a Saturday, so we wanted to start quite early. On the one hand because of the heat and at the other hand because of the tourists.

When we arrived there I just bought a pretty cool new hat because it was really quite hot and I didn’t want to get a headache caused by the sun! So when you got paid for the entrance you realize that this is a really, really touristic place! Everywhere are Mexicans who provide you their knowledge of a guide (we didn’t take one, we had Andres who could tell us lots of stuff!). As well there were all the ways little stalls (in German: Verkaufsstand) on the left and right side. You even feel that this isn’t a “holy place” anymore. I think you can compare it somehow with a skyline of a big city. Honestly I really expected something more! I did know that it’s a touristic place, but these were no buildings which take your breath away. They were pretty amazing of course and I enjoyed it a lot, but I think the tourism destroyed part of the ancient point of view.

One of the never ending stall "avenue".

Me, my pretty hat, Heideline (the bunny - thanks to Clauida :-*) and BurnKörnGuy (the playmobil toy- thanks to Nik :-*)

Mi primero dia en la Universidad Mayab y un viaje a las buenas cenotes!

So my dear family and friends. Since my course should have started quite early today but didn’t take place I have a little time to write and give you an impression what happened the last days and how my University looks like!

Actually my first impression was like: “What the hell!? If I wouldn’t be a student here I would probably think, that it is some kind of a hotel resort, just the swimming pools are missing”. The university is like in the middle of nowhere, we have to get there by bus or with a car. Since it is actually a University for the upper class more or less all the Mexicans have a car to get here. So I am looking to someone who can give me a lift in every class in order to not pay the bus and to get back home a little faster. Also I would be a little bit more flexible because the busses leave on quite unregularly times. Plus I get in touch with new people :-)

The campus