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Travel Blogs from Mitla, Mexico
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Meandering Back Up Through Mexico
This is a top pick! ... Vancouver to Ottawa, visiting friends along the way. Watch out guys, time to make alternate travel plans now! Our first stop in Mexico was at the sleepy coastal village of Puerto Arista. We've stayed here several times before, and as we pulled into ...
One lovely night
We had heard about these frozen waterfalls and how lovely they are, so decided to go. They are calcium deposits, just like in caves. They drip and grow and make these waterfalls. OH Boy!!! About 10 miles of dirt , rough , switchback road!! One way. ...
El Dia Final
... . I don't know. So here I am on my last day. As a final note, here is a list of things I love about Mexico: 1. The sun 2. The warm ocean 3. Mole negro 4. Tequila (why lie?) 5. How affectionate Mexicans are with each other. 6. Late night ...
Mitla et marches indiens
Marches, baignade dans les sources de la sierra et fabrique de mezcal avec ...
Cataract Surgery
... , but I love meeting new people... especially interesting new people. speaking of interesting, we locked the keys in the car... but Dave (my mexico dad) drove out from the school, and saved us. By the end of the day, I was a cataract expert... and I've ...
Around the Valley of Oaxaca- EAST
... community. Thus, we paid the piper and all was well. On our way back west, we stopped at Mitla, a fascinating Zapotec ruin constructed primarily for ceremonial purposes. This major religious center was constructed in 850 A.D., as Monte ...
Trip to yet other pyramids!
Hola Chicos y Chicas! Have just got bback from a fabulous trip to the Mitla pyramids, as well as a visit to some petrified, limestone waterfalls, where we had a bit of time to laze in the sun. This was followed by a trip to a factory making mezcal ...
Cold Hot Springs and a Natural Infinity Pool
... day, a circus, and it is the gateway to one of the most amazing places I have seen so far in Mexico - Hierve el Agua. The markets of Mitla provide a few more cultural wares and 100% less raw food than the markets of proximate locations such as ...
Indiana Jones Status
Miles: 4,978 Miles Per Gallon: 22.4 In our ever lasting quest for adventure and history, we explored the ruins at Mitla. They had some wildly extravagant stone eching on most of the buildings. Really unique stuff. ...
Our first view of the local ruins
Mitla is a quaint town with a taste of the historical ruins of the Oaxaca area. We walked thru ruins with still remaining intricate detail and former living areas. ...
el inframundo y el cielo
Nuestro primer paseo en Oaxaca fue a Mitla que significa lugar de los muertos o el Inframundo y que fue un asentamiento zapoteca hermoso con sus palacios y las grecas que lo caracterizan, sus tumbas y columnas y como siempre sobre uno de sus templos ...
Tule, Teotitlán, Mitla, Hierve el Agua
... mezcal company. Since I am not the spirit fan, I will skip this experience and move forward to Mitla. Mitla, another from the incountable monumental sites in Mexico, with a pyramid complex and unique mosaics. And last stop - the waterfalls, called ...
Yaguar Xoo, Mitla
... que par les autres girafes, jaguars ou singes presents sur le site... Nous decidons ensuite d'aller voir les ruines de Mitla qui se trouvent un peu plus loin sur la route qui est soit dit en passant parsemee de distilleries de mezcal. Ces ...
After the sacrifice at Monte Alban
Rode on through Oaxaco to Milta, another pyramid site, but not to look around , smaller towns are nicer and easier to find a room all be there less choice. Stopped at the Hotel Don Cenobio, the bike stopped in the ballroom! It was safe in there and dry. ...
Hidden jewel in the Mexico you'd hoped to see
... , the house of Benito Juarez, visit museums, enjoy some nightlife and fine cuisine, walk through the markets, then return to Mitla, old Mexico, and relax, away from the expense, tourist-jams, traffic, noise and heat of the city. From here, you can ...
Hierve el Agua
The main attraction on the Mitla Doble tour for me was Hierve El Agua, a location in the mountains, in San Lorenzo Albarradas, 2800 metres above sea level where water containing minerals naturally bubbles to the surfaces and flows down the side of the ...
Incredible landscapes
We get an open-backed truck from the town of Mitla upto see stunning thermal water calcify into a "stone waterfall" known as Hierve el Agua with a couple of Brits and walk round the cliffs of flowing stone, have a close shave with a huge black snake that ...
A must see in the Oaxaca area
This was one of the most interesting and fun trips we encountered. We hitched a ride in the back of a small truck...a common mode of transportation to this destination...to the top of the peak. We wound and twisted along narrow roadways, most barely wide ...
Mitla Doble tour
... a small mezcal making location where they used a horse to compress the algava and essentially use natural methods to make the alcohol. Mitla which is the main attraction of the tour was okay. The ruins, if they are that are nothing compared to ...
Mitla
... (100 to 650 AD), reaching its peak during the Post- Classic period (750 to 1521 AD). The largest attraction in Mitla is, without a doubt, the varied ornamentation of its buildings, achieved through a system of fretwork distinguishing it from the rest ...
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