Mexico

Friday before Labor Day, Sashi and I made a four weekend out of it and went to Mazatlan, Mexico. We flew Alaska Airlines which seems a bit like taking Air Tahiti to Moscow.

The difference between here and the US was more startling than I expected. Mazatlan was VERY hot, humid, poor and VERY quiet. Must have been the off season probably coz of the heat. The number of people trying to sell you stuff on the beach outnumbered the tourists. This got a bit tiring after a while, I prefer exotic or third world locations for holidays but you rarely get such a tourist driven culture as in Mexico. I should have guessed that would happen in a place frequented mostly by Americans.

There really wasn't very much to do apart from sleep, eat, shop for tourist crap and go to the beach. The water was so warm it was almost hot but sometimes the hotel pool was better as it was cooler and you didn't have to put up with a million people hassling you to buy stuff.

The building in the background turned out to be a nightclub/restaurant complex. Sashi thought is was a church.