Hotel Salmones Jalapa

Today, we did something not very Mexican… we went to the African Safari Park south of Puebla. And it was GREAT! It's a drive-thru park and we took lots of photos. At one point, we had monkeys on our van (Keara’s window was open!) but the camera was too zoomed to get a good photo of them. We had lunch in the restaurant during a fast a...

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Itīs December 29 today and I am writing from an internet cafe in Puebla, population 1.9 million. We arrived by bus from Mexico City yesterday afternoon, and checked into Hotel Victoria, situated in the city centre within walking distance to the zocalo, or city square. Our hotel room reminds me of one in Nice, France. It has a quai...

We departed Mexico City for the colonial town of Puebla, some 2.5 hrs away by bus. While stowing our luggage under the buys, I smash my head on a metal beam and it's not much fun. I find out later that I actually split my head open and blood came out. I actually swore less when smashing my head open than spending 5 minutes in Sydney traffic. May...

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What an amazing day. If any of you are looking for vacation spots in Mexico, allow me to suggest Puebla!

So my current host family's mission was to make Ronja and I happy. No seriously. That's what our host dad told us at the beginning of the week. His way of making us happy was through food. We've had a different type of ...

Xalapa, od** auch Jalapa, ist das Zuhause d** b**uehmten Chilischoten. Genau, die Jalapenos. Wir sind ab** aus einem and**en Grund hi**, denn wir wollen mal kurz uns**e normale Museumsscheue v**gessen und in das anthropologische Museum d** Stadt gehen, angeblich das zweitbeste des Landes (nach dem anthropologischen Museum in Mexiko Stadt, wo wir...

Day 1 We started the road trip at 6am in the morning and made a pit stop to have home-made quesadillas for breakfast. Day 2 We drove to the hot springs where some of the cousins did rafting on the neighboring river. Day 3 We drove to El Sabanal beach and paid for a day-entrance to the Las Dunas resort. Even thought it was partly cloudly, the wea...

Hi, we are still in Esteli, one more project left to do for our business. We have been here longer because daddy and mommy had Dengue Fever. It seems to me, dengue fever is the worst thing you can get in the world. It's like having finger nails behind your eyes and you've been put in an oven. Becuase mommy and daddy had it at the same time, I ha...

This morning we set of for the town of Xalape to go to the museum of anthropology. This is regarded as the second best museum in Mexico. We found the museum lived up to its name; it was very interesting and amusing. The displays consisted of lots of stone and dry clay sculptures. Some in the shape of animals, some in the shape of humans and some...

7/17/2006 Hey guys, hope all is well!! ;) So let's see... it's been raining, a lot! Though the rain has taken its time to get here, it's now here, and in full force. The buses haven't been able to make it into Murra because they can't make it up the slippery, muddy hills... so they just come as far as they can (usually around Casas Viejas) and t...

Today we went to the first (of many) ruins of the tour - Teothihuacan, just outside of Mexico City. They were several pyramids and a long walkway, the Avenue of the Dead. In Moon Plaza our guide, Gorilla, clapped his hands and the echo sounded like a bird's call which was really impressive. We then eagerly climbed our first pyramid (little did w...