Hotel Victoria Uruapan

... les jours. Il parait que cest pire durant la fin de semaine en plus... Et cest comme ca dans toutes les rues partout dans la ville.

Cest un tres bon hasard que je sois arrive ici durant les celebrations entourant la Vierge de Guadalupe. Marie a apparu dans une montagne pas loin dici, et a demande a un frere et lui a demande de construire une coupe deglises sur la montagne pour elle. Les eglises sont la et elles sont remplies a pleine ...

... I drank as much as I could as fast as I could muster and threw the rest away. Shame.
The flight to Santiago was the big one; over night. We were fed dinner at 10pm. I had chicken primavera with rice and Nick got fish and mashed potatoes. We both had a different cake for dessert and I had three free refills of wine.
There were tv screens at each seat and you could choose from many movies ...

... queste famiglie numerose caricate sui barconi per il pranzo del giorno di festa sono veramente divertenti, ricordano un po' le riunioni dei nostri caiunni!!
Nel canale, oltre le barche dei visitatori, ci sono le barche dei venditori di cibo e bevande, dei suonatori e dei venditori di souvenir, e gli acquisti si fanno da una barca all'altra!
Molto bello anche Templo Mayor. E' incredibile vedere un sito archeologico nella piazza della cittŕ.

Strano a dirsi ma ho avuto ...

... trip up to the base of the trail to the caldera took more than two hours each way on horseback. We ambled up and down rocky trails through woods, trotted along tracks past remote avocado farmsteads, and cantered and galloped across fields, which, before the eruption in 1943 had been fertile farmland, but now are seas of black volcanic ash. We climbed as far as possible up the volcano on horseback and reached the base of the final trail. Our guide ...

... are all those beautiful waterfalls in all sizes and shapes. The cobbled path leads you over bridges and is accompanied by the river Cupatitzio that leads from one waterfall into another. You are constantly surrounded by water that springs from rocks, you have to step over water coming from the bottom, the top, all sides! The construction of the park is really amazing thinking of how everything is connected with each other and ...

... ever imagine. Their current advertised rates are between 350 + 700 Peso which includes breakfast, but you shouldn't have any problems getting a room for less. I got a room for 250 Peso with no breakfast. Casa Chikita has an extremely laid back approach, there is no real check out time and I was able to leave valuable's around the guest house without any fear of them getting ...

... that mexicans are lazy by working from 5am until midnight every day. (oven doing business sat at a table drinking beer...) we went onward to mexico city via some lovely little towns and left old bets in an outlying city. see road report about guadalajara.

... We went to a small taco cafe for a comida corrida - the traditional mexican lunch - it was 39 pesos each (about 2 pounds) but consisted of 2 courses of very watery soup, one with some strange chicken in it and the other mainly rice, the desert was a chocolate bar which the waiter presented very proudly, couldn{t help laughing at this point. Our spanish is kind of coming on but generally we dont know what we have ordered in restaurants apart from beer and enchiladas which are great. The ...

... enjoy the exhilaration of descent coasting down through bend after bend with hardly a car in sight. I was on my way to Indian country. Grupo Kenda - Purépecha Indian music The town of Quiroga came into view, nestled in a fold at the foot of the mountains, the two grey steeples of its church rising against the muddy brown waters of the lake beyond. I detoured along the town's main street, in search of nourishment. At the busy marketplace local crafts were on display ...

... i think there is a competition who can have the loudest bass. My ears were nearly bleeding, the poor old lady in front was sitting with her hands over her hears and they turned it down a bit for her on request. At the beach we managed a few Spanish lessons from the local children, who also got a bit of an English lesson! In the evening we stopped at the Cinema on the way back to see Harry Potter and the order ...