TIJUANA
South of the wall
Sundays Mirror, Star, & Express
TIME TO DANCE TO
TIJUANA'S TUNE
THE BORDER wall between Tijuana and San Diego isn’t really a wall... more a fence. A mishmash fence. Some parts forlorn, other parts foreboding. Its final stretch by the beach is stern and impressive.
A battalion of giant steel slats, accompanied by no-man’s-land, barbed wire, further fencing, and US Border Patrol guards. But the battalion is made to look small as it marches ramrod into the vast Pacific, only to be quickly swallowed by the waves. A metaphor, of sorts.
MEXICO
Swimming with whale sharks
Daily Mirror
WHALE MEET AGAIN
Sitting at the back of the little boat, I stared out at the high sun and the deep blue of the Caribbean.
Clusters of other similar vessels were circling around dozens of tourists snorkelling in the water. They, in turn, were frantically circling a giant whale shark that was somewhere beneath the gentle waves, happily sucking up plankton, seemingly unperturbed by the commotion surrounding it.
I’d just tried to swim alongside it myself, but couldn’t get close before the shark moved away. Would I get another chance to get up close to the largest fish in the world? After all, this was the highlight of my sea-and-ancient-civilisation trip to Mexico’s Riviera Maya.