Central America / Part 1

On our way to the Lago de Atitlan

Nice view over Quezaltenango

LAGO de ATITLAN 

After long ways up - it suddenly showed up

1500 meters lower

2000 meters higher - 25 km away from the lake

a well deserved break

Discovering Antigua

Amtigua

Through the mangroves by "lancha"

Border to El Salvador

Then we met our new friends from France

Angel & Lionel :)

El Salvadorian Sunset

 Breakfast on the beach

With Mario over the Golfo the Fonseca - to Nicaragua

First steps in Nicaragua

Potosi Beach

The first kms in Nicaragua leaving Potosi

Shoes off and go!! :) 

Its the Nature they say!!!! :) cute hein!!

Through Chiapas to Guatemala

Leaving the playa - on the road to Salina Cruz

Lunchtime at one of the thousands "comedores" with tacos and chicken

The road to Chiapas

Canyon del Sumidero in Chiapas

One of the canyon's habitants

At the "mercado" in San Cristobal de las Casas

 Let's go to the church??

Cascades de Agua Azul :)

Misol Ha - Waterfalls

The ruins in Palenque - nice view from one of them

On your left hand you can see this and listen to the hawling monkeys

 The cascades at the ruins

 Our last "Zocalo" in Mexico - Comitan

 

On the border to Guatemala at La Mesilla - from one office to the other

 "Zacaleu ruins" - Huehuetenango / Guatemala

On our road to the "PLAYA"

 

On our road through the Sierra

Having a great "desayuno" breakfast at our host's place

Thank you so much for everything!!!

 Break on the way up over the mountainrange

On the top (alt. 2356m)

Monte Alban

Our first ruins! Welcome to Oaxaca!!

Sleeping 2765 m over sea level, looking down to the Pacific!!

Now we are going down...

Banana trees on the way down

In the jungle

At the coast

Holidays...

with nice sunsets!!!

6 months on the road

27 th of May we left Anchorage/AK an today on 27th of November we are in Cholula / Mex.

On our way South we met a lot of different people, ways of living, reactions about our trip and of course we made a lot of new friends.

From glaciers, big forets, hundreds of lakes in Alaska / Canada we came to the foggy and hilly coast of the US. When we left the coast in California we paddeld  trough a hot an dry landscape all the way down to Mexico. Here we are cycling from the deserty lanscapes up to the high pine trees and down to the tropical forets.

We also had an impressive change of wild life. In the north we`ve seen bears, moose, caribous, squirels. On the coastline it were thousand of birds, also huge eagels, raccoons and wales.The desert has lizards, snakes and a lot of howling coyotes.

In This time we made 10821 km in 135 days of riding. With an avarage of 80,15 km a day, a sum of 84771 meters / altitude and a highest point of 3122 meters. Our bikes needed new tubes, rear tires, casette with chain and we fixed 48 flats so far .

We are glad to have this possibility to see these different parts of the World, and we hope to see a lot more on our bikes.

From Chihuahua to Zitacuaro

Leaving Chihuahua with our guide

After 100km or more this sing shows up... hehe

 

Zacatecas - our view from the Hostel

Guanajuato by night

... and by day

With our friends Jose and Edgar

C&C

Going under, one of the (hundred) tunnels in Guanajuato

Teatro Juarez (GTO)

Our family in Guanajuato
Thank you very very much guys!! We were so happy to stay with you!!

Yes yes this happens!!

They are just getting bigger and bigger

Morelia

On the road to Ciudad Hidalgo - Mil cumbres (thousand hills)

WOW!!

hmm after so many km desert, finally forest again

Mariposa Monarca - Butterflies

(thousands and thousands coming from Canada to central Mexico

every year 4500km)

Yummie Gorditas