Hostal Del Zocalo
Travel Blogs from Cholula
I ate bugs!
... has a church built on top of it (those good old Spanish colonialists) which has the most amazing views (see photos if they ever manage to make their way up here).
Puebla is pretty massive (about 5 million people) and I have no idea how on earth I'm going to manage to figure it out in the next 5 months. The class gap is very obvious with huge, American malls next to houses that are literally falling apart. The poverty is ...
Trying day
... Nothing could be done and it was time to accept the things we cannot change and move on.
On our bikes, we followed Frankie's car about a kilometer then up a steep neighborhood hill to his house. Michelle had noticed that her bike seemed a bit unstable and on closer inspection, we saw her back rack had cracked and needed to be repaired or replaced. (When it rains, it pours!)
Frankie's and Mercedes' house is a comfortable ...
Visit to an the largest pyramid, but it's buried!
... tunnels archeologists built to explore within, but they are closed right now for restoration so we couldn't go in them :( Some of the pyramid is exposed as you can see in the pictures. It is sooooo big!!! There was a small set of stairs we could climb up and I have taken pictures there. We then walked all the way to the top on the earth part to see the cathedral. ...
In de ban van Ruines en Vulkanen
... laat in de middag, balen, een afdaling, de stad in. Daarna moeten we weer de stad uit klimmen. Ach het was een mooie rit en we vinden heel makkelijk een fijn hotel. Wel een apart hotel. Ze verhuren kamers per uur en de auto kan je onder je kamer in een afsluitbare garage parkeren. Wij besluiten om een kamer voor de hele nacht te huren. De garage dient deze keer als fietsenstalling
Via Tepotzlan gaan we richting Puebla. Even internet checken in een ...
Cholula, Oaxaca and Chiapas I
... And I got burnt and I am red as a german in Mallorca!!! The second night in Oaxaca we meet other people that Amelia know, who were again very nice. It was the birthday of a man that drinks so much, and wants everybody drinking, so he was ordering beers for us. Amelia told she would not convince her to drink any Teqila, but he ordered three. Guess who drunk all three!!! Yeah, i am so easy to convice .. : ) But it was not for the alkohol, but for the culture. You had to drink ...