Month: juni 2009

June 10. This is a big city.
The bus penetrates Mexico city profoundly. I can walk up to the central square (Zocalo) where the cathedral and the government palace are facing each other. I'll do that tomorrow. First let me arrive in this city, so tenderly called "Deye Effe" by its twenty-one million inhabitants. The bus is parking, I get out, strap ...
June 9. Myriad Intentionality.
The Theory of myriad intentionality. I wrote about this earlier; here I want to be a little bit more precise. But only a little bit. This is not supposed to be a philosophical tractatus and I am not supposed to be a genius to write one. So, then, what is the definition of intentionality? It ...
June 8. No mushrooms, friends.
In the morning I visit the temple complex of Palenque. It's thirty minute walk down the asphalt road and I'm very sweaty when I enter the site, that lies on a hill. The temples here are amazing, at least on a par with Tikal. When I walk around, I have the feeling I'm in the ...
June 7. Mexico!
I get up at 5am again, this time to be picked up by a shuttle bus to Palenque, Mexico. It is an eight-hour busride including a long section on a bumpy dirtroad. But the scenery is simply beautiful. Busrides can be a real attraction. This one includes another exciting complication: the border to Mexico. We ...
June 6. Tikal.
I get up at 5am to take the early morning bus to the heritage site of Tikal. It's cooler in the morning and you have a greater chance to spot a lot of animals. A comfortable shuttle bus takes me there (gee - am I writing a travelguide here? Can I be more boring? I ...
June 5. Through the green hills of Guatemala.
Get on the 7am bus to Flores near the well-known Maya-site of Tikal. I decide I want to see some of those ruins. The busride is long but amazingly beautiful. This is it. This is the attraction. How can the other passengers solve puzzles and doze away to their ipods? The scenery is so pretty ...
June 4. Semuc Champey.
Today: Semuc Champey - a beautiful excursion. First we go tubing down the river for some fifteen minutes, then there is the opportunity to jump off the steel bridge. I don't do it and catch myself off guard explaining why I couldn't have jumped. It's only because I wear glasses so it has nothing to ...
June 3. Alter egos.

I leave Antigua early with a shuttle bus directly to Semuc Champey. It's a very long ride. Dirt roads that seem endless but are only ten kilometers long from Coban to Lanquin and from Lanquin to Semuc Champey. It's still light when we arrive and check in the ecohostel "El Portal" where they offer ...
June 2. Good old Paradoxes of Relativism and a hot volcano.
Relativism... the paradox has been forgotten. People don't appear sensible to the idea that presicely because of the relativist phase we are in, a fertile soil for new Great Stories is being created. The relativism of the Last Stories presumes a linear concept of history, history being the meta-story and thus in contradiction to the ...