Guaymas and Bahia de San Carlos

A short bus travel took us away from our preferred ghost city, through the pacific ocean. We decided to stop in the portual town of Guaymas, where we were welcome by a hot sun and the usual desertic landscape… soon we moved from our accommodation to the beach: the village of San Carlos, dominated by two twin peaks over the ocean, was our target from many days. To be honest it is not a paradise, but it seemed to us a quiet and pleasant place, where the beautiful beaches of sand and pebbles are touched by a calm, hot and emerald colored sea. The ideal place to swim just before sunset, when also entire Mexican families move from their homes to the seafront. Here the national sport seems to have a swim wearing jeans and t-shirt, obviously with a cold beer (the unfailing Tecate) within easy reach.

Bahia de San Carlos Bay Sonora Mexico Latin America

Goodbye, Hermosillo

It was nothing special, but Hermosillo has become the place where we spent the longest time, till now. A quite prison where we alternated happy, boring and sad moments, in a typically Latin American mix. We met a lot of local people, no tourists and we lowered ourselves in this new Mexican life… we are definitely ready to become nomads, once more. We will smile thinking about the 50 degrees of the first days and about the floods of the last ones. In the meantime, the super-salted “carne asada”, the tasteful juices of our friends (“La Resaca” restaurant, ask to local people about it) and the totally unreliable information we received in the street. We say goodbye to the cacti, we need green forests to breath again.

Hermosillo Ciudad Juarez Mexico travel towards the desert blog photos Latin America

Hermosillo, Mexico

Mission completed! As the local newspaper says, we have been successful in bringing the water in the desert, too: “¡Tormenton! Una lluvia extraordinaria de setenta milimetros en la capital Hermosillo. Desde hace cuatro años no caia una precipitacion tan fuerte”. Coming the clouds from New Mexico, as we did, they probably followed us, we should resign ourselves… now it is still raining and many people thank us on the street. As the last two weeks, we are still in the Northern Mexico, waiting for news and collecting information before leaving through the south, in a few days.

Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Latin America

A wall, the last frontier of Latin America

We are slowly experiencing a world every time more vivacious and colored. Traveling along the border, a desolate but nice place where we observed desert dunes, cactus and sleepy hills, we feel a high tension. Every night many people coming from Latin America and China try to cross the border as clandestine. A lot of small frontier towns have risen along the Mexican border, to receive in remote places those who want to try that exploit. On the way we found a lot of roadblocks and our documents and baggages were checked repeatedly. All this could disappear when a wall, which is in construction on the border between united states and Mexico, will be finished. It will divide two worlds, that probably don’t need this further tension factor.

We arrived in Hermosillo (Estado de Sonora) before the sunrise, but when the sun began to shine, the temperature rose too: 35, 45, maybe 50ºC. It became impossible to do anything. During the night, when it got warmer, we went out to take a look: as we expected we met a nice old man, who gave us the directions to reach our next destination, the pacific ocean.

USA-Mexico border flag clandestines wall Latin America

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Everything we did and saw in almost two months of traveling, has been blown away in a single day: it is impossible to understand the tremendous change we are experiencing, without being here… and we have just crossed a little bridge over a river without water. This is the border between United States and Mexico, between north and south, between the order and the natural disorder, between a head which always wants to lead and a body that hardly tries to quit obeying. We found us in a world suddenly colored, vivacious, frenzied. Streets full of food and goods, music everywhere, ramshackle buses, but above all people, many people. Young men, elderly and children, people who come and people who run away. A little bit of sadness… at last we are in Latin America.

Estrellita of Ciudad Juarez Mexico border Latin America

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