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Oaxaca Slideshow
Oaxaca
Travel Blogs from Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca city
... en veldig god venn der, Lars (som var en gatehund), kjempe sot og Sigurd saa klart en nordmann som reiste i mexico aa laget film. Naa er vi i Oaxaca, har egenltig bare slappet av her for det meste av tiden saa langt, satser i morgen paa aa faa gjort ...
Into the hills
... got back so we came back to the room, repacked the cases and are now ready for the next step of our journey. After leaving Aero-Mexico office we decided to have lunch in the Zocola and just as we finished lunch there was a few drops of rain, not again we ...
Spanish Immersion
... . I have hailed a taxi in a sea of rushing cars, found my unmarked hostel with a little help from Grandmother Oaxaca, walked the narrow shoulder-to-shoulder streets until blisters formed, checked into my new Spanish school and alas found comfort in ...
Pimpollo
Hi everybody, I'm here now in Juchitan. I´m living in a home for kids and young adults with special neds, physical and mental disabilities. I arrived 2 weeks ago, after spending some more weeks in Mazunte. Where I am living is outside of a ...
"Hey baby, I love you. Marry me."
... we can hang out ;) It was Heather's birthday this Wednesday, the big 2-1! Even though it's not that cool because we're in Mexico, we're going out to celebrate this Saturday. I'm pretty excited about it, especially now that I know where I'm going and I ...
On this day, 30 years ago a child was born...
... 1st class bus to Oaxaca, and a quick taxi from the bus stop we were at our hotel. It seemed that no one in Mexico (except a few select locals) could speak any english - so it took alot of hand signals and Wato's ridiculously bad knowledge of spanish to ...
Fireworks, chocolate and markets
... somewhere about so we headed for that to see what it was like. I had read that it was either the largest market in Mexico, Central America or the world (cant remember) so thought it could be interesting to see. The thing was MASSIVE!!!!! It was literally ...
Surfers Paradise
... had a little afternoon trip to the local town (Porchutla) to book our bus tickets to San Christobel. That felt like proper Mexico, and we certainly got some funny looks from the locals as we walked through the little town square. Everyone was just ...
Monte Alban Ruins
... Family gave me a lift to the top. 45 pesos to get in and Fu$%&in A the view was crazy. Oaxaca is surrounded by Mountains..huge Coloradoesk Mountains...And the Ancient city is huge...Tons of Pyramids and temples. I could stop ...
Still raining, still dreaming
... /restaurant on the beach...and I mean ON the beach -- the "floor" was the sand. But my time in Mexico was growing short, and I needed to get back to Oaxaca city in a few days for my flight home. The next morning I got up to find two rivulets of ...
More picts!
You have the blog entry - here are more Day of the Dead pictures. This is challenging due to - intermittent Internet - only being able to upload 5 pictures at a time More will be ...
Tagesausflug 1
... in Formen als Kerzhalter, Krüge, Vasen, dekorative Tiere oder Vögel stammen alle aus diesem Dort San Bartolo Coyotepec in Oaxaca.Wir hatten dort eine kurze Demonstration über die Verarbeitung des Tones. Die Stücke werden in einer uralten Technik von ...
Making it Through!
... chocolates! It was so cute. Anyway, it was a memorable birthday. How many people can say that they celebrated a birthday in Oaxaca, Mexico? ME!!! I have my first test coming up on Thursday and we have a couple more excursions to go on. But ...
Oaxaca
... and black pottery in Coyotepec. I owe this nice visit to my cousin Lili - if I would not listen ad remember her recomends about Oaxaca, I would give it up. There were 2 quides in the tour - 1 lived in Israel a year, and the other had already visited ...
Oaxaca - Wah-hah-ca
... the big procession day for semana santa, so we watched everyone getting ready and celebrating the day. we really probably could have left oaxaca today, but we had booked the bus tickets out, and i had the runs, so it was probably lucky we were staying a ...
gringo life for it's ownself
... honduras, but the 1st bus i could find a seat on was headed to mexico and that sounded good to me-----great weather in in oaxaca right now--like texas in october--mellow days and cool nights--i know i will hit some heat in larado and the good doctor ...
Oaxaca / Cuajimoloyas
... ruins of Monte Alban today. Fantastic site perched on a hill flattened by the Zapotecs who built this complex around 100 BC. Oaxaca itself is a beautiful town, with lots of craft markets and a wonderful central square, where we've had the odd beer ...
Dia Dos
... (about 75 cents) but later left it on a taxi. So much for her first souvenir. We ran into the only other person in Oaxaca whom I know—a woman Lisa I met yesterday on the plane—and she spent the remainder of the day in our company. So at ...
I think something died in/under/behind the oven
The other day, one of the elders... I like to use his first name, Chad... Everyone else calls him Elder Reeves and to be honest I don't know any of the other elders' first names, it's weird that they introduce themselves that way. I digress. It was ...
Mitla Doble tour
The Mitla trip was interesting, it was nothing spectacular, but interesting. There was five total stops: carpet making somewhere in the middle of nowhere, it was a very nice location where they make wool carpets with naturally coloured wool. The second ...
And so I learn the rules of my Mormon host family
We get back from our adventures at Mitla and Tulé to sit down with the house rules. The whole family is there with Vale and it was pretty funny. I find out I've broken all of the rules. I have with me on my person three of the four forbidden goods ...
American Breakfast - Birthday Extravaganza
Not much to report. One funny thing I remember from that day was getting out of the shower to have Rocio asking how long I would be becuase it was time to leave for church. Now, I totally respect people's beliefs but I politely told her I did not ...
Spent Saturday with Local Artisans & More!
We took off Saturday, early afternoon. Had decided that I would ask the Local Hippies for some help with my wire wrapping of my sea glass. When we first spotted them, all set up to work and sell their wares, they had a bunch of customers. We decided ...
More Adventures
... told to go back to our houses because it wasn't safe for us there. ~Dental Appreciation day: One of the fun things about Mexico, is that there is literally a parade and a fiesta for every occasion and this one special occasion just happened to be Dental ...
Oaxaca, México
... 'ber skeptisch und distanziert ygschtellt sind. Aber dört händ eim alli immer zuegwunke, grüesst und zueglächlet. Nach Oaxaca goht's wyter in die nöchschti Stadt, nach in San Cristóbal de las Casas, das isch in dr Region Chiapas - ...
I have a rash
I noticed an itch on my left shoulder last night but when I looked it clearly wasn't more mosquito bites (though don't worry, they attacked me while I napped on the couch yesterday afternoon). This morning the rash, though it isn't bigger, it has ...