I’m leaving tomorrow. This last month backpacking Mexico was just amazing. Of course there’s still so much I haven’t seen and done here. But I’ll be back in two weeks and that makes me feel a bit better. I was told I’m quite a numerical person, so here’s a breakdown of my Mexico trip in numbers:
- days spent in Mexico: 30
- kilometers travelled: at least 3202
- intercity bus rides: 9 (out of which 3 were night buses and 5 were longer than 7 hours)
- Mexican states visited: 8 out of 31
- biggest difference in altitude: 2200m
- longest travel time: 22 hours
- different accommodations: 12
- nights spent in a private room: 3
- selfies agreed to: 9 with Mexicans (1 in the middle of a pre-Columbian ruins site with a middle aged guy, while I was wearing a women’s sweater he knitted himself), 1 with a French guy
- Australians met along the way: at least 17
- km ran: embarrassingly little: 16,76
- GB of mobile data used: 3
- times I wore jeans: 3
- times I thought to myself “this is the most beautiful sight I’ve seen in my entire life”: 6 (out of that number of times I was looking at food: 2)
- shots of mezcal: at least 18
- tacos eaten: gazillion
- euros spent on taxis: 52,42 (gringa pays double the price)
- euros spent on food per day: 8,26
- euros spent on alcohol in total: 35,90 (!)
+ some extras:
- most heard song: it’s a tie between El Amante and Reggaeton Lento
- the weirdest thing I’ve seen: people selling water, chips, nuts, ice cream in traffic jams, but then also puppies! Real live cute puppies!
- the weirdest thing I got used to: being recorded on camera when boarding a bus
My backpack is packed.
Gracias, Mexico! Next on: Cuba!
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