Casa Regia Jalapa
Hidalgo No 12 Centro Jalapa, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico
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Nice Museum, shame about the rest!
... not wandering about with the bricks!
The only reason I came to Jalapa was to see the Anthropology museum, nothing else to see.
Jalapa it self is like Rome, on lots of hills, only these hills you can definitley see and feel, very steep!
The museum was very good, spent over 3 hours there, they have the rest of the Olmaec heads, I think I counted 5, the rest are ...
Today we talk of food
... Really enjoy this day.
To Rocky you'll be lucky to get a T shirt with all the extra weight I am carring around in baggage and I mean the American Tourister baggage not the personal stuff.
And Nick read the captions..these are mounds of dried chillies in the downtown market in Xalapa.
If you come from Xalapa meaning are born here then you are a Xalapino or Xalapina thus the name of the pepper. Neat ...
Xalapa for the Museum
... to specialise, leading to more complex societies and eventually the growth of governing elites.
We enjoyed seeing the contents of the Museum but appreciated it even more because of the beauty of the building. It is part of the University of Veracruz, consisting of a one storey building which is on a gentle slope, and there are no separate rooms to the main body of the museum, but where walls might normally be found there are a few steps down. The effect is ...
Excursión a Teotihuacán
... n, de los piramidos. The ride is supposed to be a about an hour long, 50km.
Oh cool, there's a guy who just got on the bus at a second stop with his guitar. Now he's playing it and singing. This is way too cool. He's standing in the aisle singing and he's really, really good. This is turning into a wicked trip and it's only 10:41am Monday morning.
BTW, if you're wondering, there are no chickens on this bus or people sitting on the roof ...
Passeio em Teotihuacán
... br> O acesso à gruta é feito através de um poço com 7 m de altura situado junto às escadas na base da pirâmide.
Quase perdi o fôlego subindo.....são 65 metros, em uma altitude de quase 2400m.
Pirâmide da Lua
Ainda que menor que a pirâmide do Sol, os seus vértices encontram-se à mesma cota, pois está construída em terreno mais elevado.
Tem uma altura de 45 m e foi completada em torno do AD 300. Junto a esta pirâmide ...


