Oaxaca City

This is a 2 month overland journey from Mexico City to Panama city.

While I was in San Miguel Mexico I had this crazy idea to travel from Portland Oregon down through Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, up into Virginia Beach VA, and then take the Trans American Trail back to Oregon. I don't know if I will make it all the way but ...

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why do we travel? why do we so look forward to getting away from it "all" but then find ourselves comparing everything we experience to the familiar, for better or for worse, what does it do for us? does it make us appreciate what we may have or do we ...

This blogs about my adventures on the other side of the pond. Cert PG

OAXACA CITY is on most tourist itineraries of famous Mexican colonial cities. It's a picturesque setting in a basin between a range of mountains to the north with foothills rising sharply toward the steeper slopes and flatter terrain to the south with ...

Oaxaca City, ...

... keeps the town afloat.  Tourists have recently started flocking here because of the rich history and slow pace of life.  Oaxaca City is also the home of Benito Juarez, a Mexican national hero and former President.  Juarez worked for the ...

Greetings from Oaxaca City! We got a bus down to here from Mexico City. It was a surprisingly comfortable ride, with lots of legroom and airconditioning. James was pleased when we got on to see that they had videos to watch, only not so pleased when ...

... is in Spanish only, it is definitely worth a walk around especially on a hot day. All in all we had a brilliant time in Oaxaca City were we were totally enchanted with the beauty and style of the city.  It is definitely worth a few days visit if ...

... as this area reflects the very best in Indian and Spanish cultures, exquisite crafts, and unique culinary traditions. Oaxaca City has some gorgeous colonial architecture, with facades constructed from the prevalent building stone, known as cantera, which ...

The six hour journey southwards to Oaxaca City certainly made up for the disappointment of the ugly industrial sprawl north of Mexico City. The scenery was just stunning with vast valleys encapsulated by huge mountain ranges sometimes covered with ...

... HELT nydelig! Skal legge ut bilder;)    Katedralen St. Domingo er en katedral alle maa besoke viss en er i Oaxaca City. Nydelig belagti"gull" hele insiden med kunst overalt. Absolutt et must! Moderne kunstmuseet var verdt et  besok ...

... Location: 450 km southeast of Mexico City Population 258,000 Elevation 5,084 ft. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oaxaca – City of the Four “C”s - Coffee, Chocolate, Colonial Architecture and ...

... forces of development rapidly deforest their traditional territory near the Guatemalan border. From San Cristobal we headed northwest towards Oaxaca City, spending one night en route at Hogar Infantil, an orphanage that welcomes campers. There are 81 ...

... ; We reached the campsite late and decided to settle in for the night and explore town the following day.    While reading about Oaxaca City and the surrounding area, we found that there were lots of things to do and see in a relatively short ...