Fiesta Inn Toluca Tollocan Mexico City

... there was a performance outside -- a few times a day, a group performs an ancient rite known as voladores. Essentially, 4 men climb a 20 meter pole, turn around to secure some ropes, then jump off, slowly twirling their way back to the ground. They´re upside down. Three fly (in various positions) while the fourth plays a flute-like instrument. Quite the spectacle to stumble across!!<br><br>Tomorrow: we go to Acapulco!<br>

... monella seinällä ohjeet maanjäristysten varalle. Tämä on sinänsä ihan ymmärrettävää, sillä en todellakaan haluaisi mitään tonnin painoista mayalaista patsasta päälleni. Kokoustauoilla ja päivällisillä olen viettänyt paljon aikaa aasialaisten kollegoiden kanssa. Edelleen herätän hämmennystä, koska nuorehkona naisihmisenä olen heidän silmissään varmaan melkoinen nero. Ihmispolot luulevat minun olevan vähintäänkin suuri suomalainen ajattelija, analyytikko ja strategisti, koska ty ...

... into dancing with one of the band members, though struggled for some time. Once I got my steps right however it turned out to be great fun. I must admit that the Mexican men are miles ahead of the Cubans when it comes to their behaviour and attitude towards women. It really was so nice to be treated like an equal again and not to constantly have to be on guard, or feel the hair at the back of your neck constantly raised as a result of the cat calling. Finally, Teotihuacan ...

... Sun Pyramid´ was built by 150 AD. The rest of the city was built between 250-600AD. We strolled down the ´Avenue of the Dead´, the main street, through the ´Square of the Moon´, climbed the ´Moon´ and the ´Sun Pyramid´ and saw a few colourful frescoes. There was a seven hundred year gap between the death of the Teotihuacans and the birth of the Aztecs. Therefore, the Aztecs believed that all the Teotihuacan Gods had sacrificed themselves here ...

... also quite positive. No hassles! Most of us might think that Cancun is expensive. On the contrary, it's very affordable! We had put up at the dorm in the Haina Hostel. It was just 20 minutes from the airport and there were all students and backpacker groups around. If you haven't tried it yet, I'd suggest that you should try a student's hostel. It's a sure saver. $10 per person, per ...

... have been. We also got taken to the spot where horrifyingly hundreds (maybe thousands) of students were massacared by the governement during a protest. Facsinating...but quite shocking. Then we moved on the the Guadaloupe shrine...where it is belived the mexican equivalent of the Virgin Mary apperaed not long after the spaniards arrived. The place was amazing...loads of ornate churches...a huge elaborate statue built into the mountain, complete with waterfall...and an amazing ...

... returned to the apartment and it was there that Huitzilopochtli shared with me some stories he had heard recently about his grandfather. Apparently when his grandfather was 16 and 17 years old he had earned the reputation of being a tough cookie. So tough that he was called out in the countryside "the rattlesnake." By 17 years old (probably the 1940s), his grandfather was a hired killer. Huitzilopochtli has no idea how many men his father killed or really for how many years he did ...

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... Andrew had really been looking forward to it (he had read about the restaurant before in other sources), but they served our drinks in dirty glasses and microwaved his maguey worms--bummer. He was happy he got to try them, at least. We went to the Engineering University Museum and saw an exhibit on Torture and Capital Punishment. It was pretty horrifying, and we both sort of regret going. There were thumb screws, head screws, racks, wheels, and an iron maiden, and ...

... places in this city - Casa Lamm...more for its wonderful book shop, where one can spend hours flipping through enormous number of art, history etc...books while zipping kindly offered coffe or tea and the Museum of Antropology, which I do agree with what it says in description about it, must be the biggest and with widest ...