Central America 28th Nov-29th Feb

28th Nov - 29th feb Mexico City 28th - 30th Nov The preparation time before taking off from London was as usual very hectic and mad. Ive got to sort out the outstanding paper work bombarding me from all the possible fronts. Eventually have managed to get on the Air France London-Paris-Mexico City. The Mexico City didn't seem to be particularly warm during the night and in the morning. It was good to have some warm clothes from London. During the day from noon on the temperature would increase double. It was pretty hot. The people and the city looked very welcoming and pleasant. The best part of Mexico City's experience was a visit of the house of the most famous Mexican painters: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Such a wonderful house and courtyard to creat the art in. That was an amazing and very moving experience to be in the place where Frida created her paintings in such a pain and sufferance. She had got one shorted leg than the other therefore her spine was screwed.a part from special shoes she was wearing, she had to wear the special corsets all her life. At the end of her life's course she had got an leg amputated, one year later in 1954 she died. Her life wasn't easy but she maintained a very positive and joyful spirit. She was sexually very active having male and female partners. She was taking inspirations for her paintings from her own life. Her paintings were about 'I' not about 'we' what was the most characteristic during the Surrealism movement. She was famous for her self portraits talking about her pain and life which was mirroring the others lives. "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." We visited also the "plaza revolucion" but nothing really impressive. The underground was pretty confusing with a very poor indications, we kept taking the trains in a opposite directions. After living 11 years in london with the biggest underground in the world I felt like I have never experienced the metro before. They need probably more time to improve the service in terms to put more indications for the directions. First couple of nights we spent in a proper hotel (El Ejucutivo) Calle Viena No 8. It was a 100$ per night hotel but with the 'ebookers' discount we stayed for 2 nights in a king bed room for 60£. Such a good deal. Two nights spent in a Mexico City were just enough and pick up a bus to rich the spectacular wonderland of Hierve el Agua. It's a set of natural rock formation in Mexican City of Oaxaca with wonderful waterfalls and fantastic natural pools. I've swam in one of those in the fresh over-saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals water. It was really refreshing and mind blowing experience, definitely recommend to everybody. We visited the biggest tree in the world "Arbol Del Tule" and the Zapoteca independent city 12/13c Mitla -place of the death. It was so hot and I couldn't really follow the guid. I just wanted to hide in a shade.