Hotel Hacienda La Noria Oaxaca

... today around 6 or so (just in time to catch a thunderstorm) and are now sitting in the little restaurant.  I was happy to find out that I wasn’t going crazy yesterday when a taxi drivers quote of 100 pesos for the drive ‘home’ yesterday seemed exorbitant, as the same ride today was less than 40.  Next time I will certainly stand up for myself.

 

All in all, we’re still having a blast and are happy to be ...

... about certain things...like meat...which looks distgusting... but im slowly adjusting my eating habits with the local cuisine...still spending quite a bit of time in the kitchen...not really cooking mexican but with ingredients from mexico... cheese here is fantastic, but milk on the other hand...brr...made out of powder...only usable for coffee or for hot chocolate. The famous chocolate is definetly worth its fame...pure chocolate, perfecto as hot! such ...

... planned to go to Cuba from the Yucatan but we realised we had not enough time and in fact the cost of getting to and from Cuba for so few days was not economical. This was a shame but we are thinking we really need to spend much more time in Central America next visit and then we can see Cuba as well as Guatamala, Honduras and Belize. We left Mexico city before midnight and arrived in Lima Peru Saturday 28th February. I will fill you in on Peru next blog.Till then friends, keep well. Karen.

... too, so we let him go off on his own for a while until I calmed down. The bus ride overnight to Palenque was great though, the bus had a cabin sealed and soundproofed with massive seats which reclined a long way and nearly a metre of legroom. It was dead quiet, people went straight to sleep but I read and Lucy watched two films with headphones on. Halfway though Hulk she screamed "DUCK" which woke everyone up, or at least my laughing did.

Nov. 9 late evening After church today we hiked up hill and under a four-lane thoroughfare toward a large amphitheatre called the Auditorio Guelaguetza http://www.tomzap.com/AuditorioGuelague tza.html. Its location provides an excellent panorama of Oaxaca, both the city and the valley. (An "aside" comment: Charles V of Spain "awarded" Hernando Cortez the viceroyalty/governorship of the Oaxaca Valley region for his successful ...

Even though we`re half way through our trip this is the first entry as i`ve only discovered this sute in the last few days and since then have been putting pins in the map. For the past few entries pictures will go up but no detailed entries as at this point it will be too time consuming. Anyway, we`re in Oaxaca. And it`s nice ...

... Well this opened up a whole new topic! My teacher and classmate, who is from Holland, of course didn't understand what I was talking about. So I told them about my experience being involved in FFA and let me remind you this is all in Spanish so I wasn't getting my point across as clearly as I would have in English. So I began telling them that first you buy a pig for a couple of hundred and you have to go down to the barn and pick you pig out but to get it you have to chase it and ...

... of extreme heat, dark passageways, fried insects, weelded by oldladies is very very unnerving. I almost turn away but force myself to step up and pop one of the flat crunchers into my mouth. It tasted like a heavily salted, flattened rice crispie but denser. So now I can say I have eaten grasshoppers. It is a peculiar milestone to reach, I know but it hasbeen an experience and that has made all the difference.

... out windows, some are pimped out, some play music, some don´t -- it´s been a big scary mystery to me since arriving in Mexico and it was time to jump in and figure it all out. The bus door is always open and a young man usually hangs from the outside screaming the stops of the bus. All the windows have different destinations painted on them, none of which ever look familiar to me. I started out at the Tourist office asking how to go about getting to ...

... consist of a little kitchen surrounded by counters and benches. I chose one that met my (not so strict) criteria. It shall be busy with friendly looking people who are eating things that look yummy, and there shall be enough room for me to sit.

The comedor I chose had but one thing on the menu: soup. As I ate, I become increasingly puzzled by the meat floating within. It looked like chicken skin, but the texture was like a slightly tough and chewy fat ...