Casa Sierra Azul Oaxaca

... nicest surprise of all, was an invitation to join our host family (the
family who owns the apartment we're renting), for a traditional Dia de
Muertos desayuno (breakfast). Incredibly gracious hosts, Ruth (the
mother), Ruth (the daughter), Erik (the son), and his new bride engaged us
and our upstairs neighbor, Arene from Canada, with great conversation and laughs. We practiced our poor, but
improving ...

... It's not every day you come across a guy like AT. May the Lord bless this next stage in your life homeboy. Much Love, Stephen P.S. - Every three months, AT will be sending me a package of handwritten blog entries - then, over the next three months, I'll type them up and post them to his blog for him. www.atholder.com

Auch am Tage entzückt Taxco mit seinen hübschen Gässchen, Nischen und Häusern. Am Morgen besichtigten wir unter anderem die berühmte Kirche San Sebastian y Santa Prisca. Die überaus kunstvollen Verzierungen der Kirche weisen trefflich auf die reichen Bodenschätzen der Gegend hin. Im Innern ist die im 18. Jahrhundert erbaute Kirche mit haushohen, herrlich geschnitzten und vergoldeten Retablos, bzw. Altären, geschmückt ...

... for water, food and other necessities of life on a mountaintop location. Furthermore, even given its large area, it is difficult to imagine 40,000 inhabitants in this location unless the number extends to the entire region to include the present site of the city of Oaxaca.

Towards the end of the post-classical period (1350-1521 AD), the site was reused by the Mixtecs (local indigenous people) as burial grounds in the ...

... dishes like guacamole and we got to see tortillas magically appear from simple grains of maize into a dough simply by being fed through a machine. God they love their tortillas here, better than our spud! Everything is deep fat fried too...not always so great! We followed our massive meal with some grasshoppers (chaupalines) from the market. Actually quite tasty but just the thought of what ...

Wednesday October 29th After a very restless night, I finally got out of bed at 5:00. We found a little restaurant, our host was a great man who was very warm and welcoming. During our delicious breakfast we met two gentlemen who were from Venezuela and Columbia. We got some more information in case we decide to go to Columbia. We said our goodbyes and hit the road. We decided to see some ancient Mexican ...

Just a little pit stop to break up the journey to San Cristobal. We arrived late last night with two Swiss friends that we met in Mazunte. They are on their way to San Cristobal too, to handover some money that they raised back in Switzerland for the Zapatistas, a local revolutionary group that fights for the rights of indigenous people. Juchitan is a small, out of the way town, one hour from the coast. The local people seem friendly and last ...

... to our trusty coffee shop then headed to the bus station. Ads went to practice his Spanish with the taxi driver at which the driver seemed to assume Ads knew the language easily and chatted continuously for the entire journey, the nods in the right places seemed to work and even I thought Ads had understood every word he had said! We then hopped on our next plush bus for our 4-5 journey east to a small village called Tehuantepec, most travellers from here ...

Now, we had planned to go loco in Acapulco but after looking into how long it was going to take us to get down the coast and into Guatemala we decided we ought to get a wriggle on. So instead of a night of debauchery we booked ourselves onto a night bus to Puerto Escondido and then on to Zipolite. All in all it was going to take us about 11hrs. Nice! The bus was very nice though with reclining seats etc so it wasn´t too much hassle ...

so, i left mexico city, 7 hours to oaxaca (pronounced wahaca) not to bad, managed to sleep some, learn some spanish and sleep some more. oaxaca was a nice place only stayed a couple of nights, first night someone told us (us being the friends from mexico city) that there was a reggea party in the town and we should go, so we did! was well good happilly shaking my groove thang when lynsee cundall walked in! how very strange i thought (dont worry thats all the thoughts and feeling ...