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Dec 12

December 12, 2014

El Sumidero, Chiapas, México: Part II, from the West Rim

As we’ve written about here on Traveleptics.com already, you can enjoy El Cañon del Sumidero, the giant canyon in Chiapas, Mexico, from one of two different angles – from inside the canyon itself by taking a small high-speed passenger boat from Chiapa de Corzo along the Grijalva river that flows through it, or from its west rim looking down into it (or along the length of it) from five different viewpoints (miradores) outside of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Here, as promised in…

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Dec 3

December 3, 2014

Yelapa, Jalisco, México

We caught a late afternoon bus out of Guadalajara, took our Dramamine, and settled in for the long curvy ride. We were going to be spending the night in Puerto Vallarta before continuing on to Yelapa the next day. Tourist destinations like Puerto Vallarta don’t appeal to us much, we have to admit, which is why we weren’t going to be doing a whole lot more than getting some late-night grub and rest. We checked into the Hotel Suites Mar…

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