Finished week 10 of school and was sad to leave. I caught an early bus to Guadalajara and transferred to a bus to Mazatlan. Total journey was about 14 hours. We passed through a couple of police inspections including one where they x-rayed all the luggage. The police are friendly enough though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arrived in Mazatl\u00e1n around 8pm. Was going to catch a local bus to the hotel but when I asked for directions I was advised not to walk about, so I took an open air taxi to the Belmar Hotel. The location of the hotel is perfect. The hotel is clean but run down. The bed and pillows are hard, and there is no hot water. Going to pay a bit more when Karen arrives and stay just up the street at La Siesta<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was up early today to walk around. Found the market and had a good typical Mexican breakfast. I then walked to, and up to the Faro. It’s hot and humid here compared to Guanajuato. I then walked north towards gringolandia but did not go all the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My first impressions of old Mazatl\u00e1n are: it is very residential, there are as many Mexican tourists as gringos but waiters still want to speak to you in English as in Puerto Vallarta, but it seems to be more relaxed than PV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finished week 10 of school and was sad to leave. I caught an early bus to Guadalajara and transferred to a bus to Mazatlan. Total journey was about 14 hours. We passed through a couple of police inspections including one where they x-rayed all the luggage. The police are friendly enough though. Arrived in Mazatl\u00e1n … Continue reading “Mazatl\u00e1n”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}