MEXICO CITY I.I.I.III – DAY FOUR & FIVE 07/08/22 & 08/08/22 Apart from the city itself, CDMX is also used by many a tourist as a base to go around surrounding locations. I’d be using the few days I had left there just for that. My first stop was at the caves of Tolantango. It took a four hour, very […]
I.I.I.II – Mexico City: Day Two & Three
MEXICO CITY I.I.I.II – DAY TWO & THREE 05/08/22 & 06/08/22 There is much to say about the capital of Mexico. Of the six days I’d have going around, I decided to spend the first three exploring the heart of the city. I got to appreciate CDMX more than I ever could by reading about it or by looking at […]
I.I.I.I – Mexico City: Day One
MEXICO CITY I.I.I.I – DAY ONE 04/08/22 It took nearly a day of flying, and despite all my drama and whining, I had finally made it. I was in Mexico City (CDMX) – in friggin Mexico, in friggin Latin America! Whilst I could hardly believe it, I brushed off the impending wave of exhilaration without a second thought – I […]
MEXICO – HISTORY
MEXICO HISTORY POLITICAL The first evidence of inhabitation dates back to around 8000BC; with agriculture being key to thousands of years’ worth of development. This formed the basis of the first villages in Mesoamerica, with the Olmecs settling along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico at around 1200BC. Whilst co-existing with other empires such as the Teotihucanos, by 500BC, […]
MEXICO – LAND
MEXICO LAND GEOGRAPHY Mexico is found on the North American Plate, with the Pacific on its West and the Atlantic on the East and bordered by the US in the North and Belize and Guatemala in the South. It is the 13th largest country in the world and has 31 federal states. The country features a series of mountain ranges, […]
MEXICO – COUNTRY
MEXICO COUNTRY NAME The derivation of the name Mexico is, to this day, still debated. One possible explanation is that it is an ethnonym; a proper noun referring to an ethnic group. In this case, the word is derived from Mexica, the rulers of the Aztec empire. Another suggests that it’s derived from metzli; moon, and xictli; navel, meaning that […]
MEXICO – PEOPLE
MEXICO PEOPLE POPULATION With a population of around 126 million, most of the country’s people are known as Mestizos; an ethnicity referring to a mix of indigenous American and European ancestry, with other minority groups including Afro-Mexicans, White Mexicans and people from all over the world. That said, the majority of its people are united under the same national identity, […]
0.II – Go
0.II – GO I finally got to start this adventure… One I had been planning for years. First it was med school, then it was COVID, then it was work. But finally, I managed to make it happen. And finally, that day had arrived – the 3rd of August 2022. The day I’d finally get to go on a plane […]
0.I – Get Set
0.I – GET SET Seven years ago, at the unripe and non-tender age of nineteen, I left my country, Malta for the very first time. It was a five-day trip to Barcelona. I still remember every single detail, exactly like it were yesterday. My friend, a traveller by all accounts, thought it was absurd how someone like me; adventurous, spontaneous, […]
FOREWORD
FOREWORD Welcome to my travel journal you crazy, beautiful people. This is Marius Brown, your average run-of-the-mill idiot who’s writing about his adventures all over the world during a gap year taken during his medical residency over 2022 and 2023. Okay, here it goes… I am entirely conscious of the fact that in all likelihood, no one but me will […]