Day 177: A bumpy ride to Semuc Champey

After breakfast on Tuesday morning, we took a shuttle from our hostel to Semuc Champey at a cost of 120 GTQ (~20 CAD) for a round trip for the both of us. The shuttle was actually a pickup truck and the ride was almost an hour of being thrown around in the back while traversing […]

Days 175 & 176: Tikal to Chahal to San Agustín Lanquín and an off-road mishap

Tim and Marisa met us at our hotel on Sunday morning to ride to our next stop in Chahal together. The ride itself was around four hours long, not including our lunch break at a small restaurant along the way, and was quite scenic. We had a short ride through a dirt road that the […]

Days 173 – 174: Belize to Guatemala and the ruins at Tikal

On Friday morning, we left San Ignacio and headed to the Guatemalan border with team Notier’s Frontiers. The crossing was fast and easy for team Riding Around the World as we had made photocopies of all our documents beforehand. I had actually copied the wrong page of Phil’s International driver’s license (oops!), but the border […]

New Video: Puebla to Chiapas

We have a new video up on our YouTube channel of our time in the Mexican states of Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Enjoy, subscribe, and share! 🙂

Our Top 10 Cities in Mexico

So, you have been following our adventure and really want to visit Mexico, but you are overwhelmed with how much there is to see and don’t know where to go? Fear not, dear readers, for we have compiled a list of our top 10 favourite cities in Mexico and why we love them. Bear in […]

Days 171 & 172: Belize City to San Ignacio and Xunantunich

We bid farewell to Belize City on Wednesday and rode towards San Ignacio, a town close to the border of Guatemala. The ride itself was just under two hours, but we stopped for lunch in the capital and had a delicious seafood pizza. We didn’t ride around Belmopan to see what the city looks like […]

Days 169 & 170: Chetumal to Belize City

On the morning of Monday, January 8, we woke up earlier than we would have liked, thanks to the blaring trumpets that seemed to be right outside our window. We later found out that the noise was thanks to the local police celebrating their ability to make noise at an ungodly hour without consequences because […]

Guides Page Announcement

We have added a Guides section to our blog where we share some handy travel information (based on our experience and Internet research) for each of the countries we have visited. While these guides are specifically targeted at overland travellers, we included information that should be useful to anyone interested in travelling to the listed […]

Day 168: Playa del Carmen to Chetumal and the ruins at Chacchoben

On Sunday morning, Tim and Marisa met us at our apartment, packed and ready to hit the road. After we loaded our bike, the four of us said good-bye to Playa del Carmen and headed towards the Belizean border. The plan was to visit the Mayan ruins at Chacchoben on our way, stop in Chetumal […]

Days 159 – 167: New year, new horizons

Our last few days in Playa del Carmen were very low-key, probably because we needed our bodies to thaw from snowshoeing up a snowy mountain. I have decided that Canadian winters are awesome as long as I have a blanket, a hot beverage, and am sitting in front of a fireplace. We rang in the […]

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