Mexico
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Sunday, 10 Feb 2008 | Views [1631]
It took a long time yesterday to drive the 175 miles to the Mexican border but it was the easiest crossing yet. Our Guatemalan papers were just a day old and our vehicle permit for Mexico was still valid so the only thing we had to do was have our ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Friday, 14 Dec 2007 | Views [2557]
Chichen Itza is probably the best known and most visited Mayan site in Mexico. It was in its heyday from 600 to 1250 AD. It is a long day trip from Cancun and Chetumal and by 11:00 tour buses fill the parking lot. We arrived yesterday afternoon ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007 | Views [1040]
Campeche sits on the Gulf of Mexico and is another UNESCO World Heritage Site which Connie described as ‘too cute for words.’ It was always a Spanish city and parts of the fortress remains. The buildings are single story blocks painted in pastels.... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sunday, 9 Dec 2007 | Views [852]
Palenque (pa-len-kay) is a real find. It is in the state of Chiapas, known to Americans for its civil unrest but we really enjoyed it. The gate to the ruins is a mere hundred meters from our campsite at Maya bell but we ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Friday, 7 Dec 2007 | Views [2425]
This is our trip and we reserve the right to whimsically change our plans. Rather than follow plan ‘B’ towards the Pacific coast and into Guatemala we reverted to our original plan and headed north east towards Xalapa (ha-la-pa) - also spelled Jalapa ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wednesday, 5 Dec 2007 | Views [1733]
The zocalo in Oaxaca is the ideal place to people watch and the restaurants provide the perfect vantage point. Musicians stroll around the plaza which is decorated with poinsettias at this time of year. Kids eat ice cream, lovers embrace on ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tuesday, 4 Dec 2007 | Views [9841]
We are in our third day in the Oaxaca (wha-hock-a) area and haven’t yet visited the city. We have visited the nearby pre-colonial sites of Monte Alban and Mitla. Zapotec, Olmec and Aztec cities were much like the city-states of ancient Greece.... Read more >
Tags: culture
Saturday, 1 Dec 2007 | Views [2041]
As Teotihuacn declined around 700 AD Xochicalco became the dominant political and economic center for the next 200 years. It sit on a hilltop and covers nearly 20 square kilometers. Excavation has been going on only in the last 20 years. As with other ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Friday, 30 Nov 2007 | Views [763]
We didn't really want to go to Cuernavaca but there were some campgrounds nearby we could use as a base for exploring the area. The climate certainly is better than Mexico City. It's shorts and T-shirt weather with banana trees and many flowers. Taxco, ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Thursday, 29 Nov 2007 | Views [6599]
We spent our final day in Mexico City at the Palacio des Belles Artes at the Diego Rivera exhibit. Rivera is probably Mexico’s best known artist and certainly its most prolific. The exhibit consisted of murals which could be transported, sketches ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007 | Views [1686]
Sunday is the day that Mexican families swarm the city, visit the parks and otherwise relax so we let them to it and took the day off. It is important to take a break once in a while. After all, we are supposed to be enjoying the trip. We tended ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Monday, 26 Nov 2007 | Views [700]
We are camping again at the best campground ever. Hotel Pepe RV Park is in Tepotzotlan, about 25 miles north of Mexico City. We have a football size grassy area to ourselves, electricity and an outdoor kitchen. Our own toilets and showers ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Friday, 23 Nov 2007 | Views [573]
In a corner of the state of Michoacán, 10,000 feet above sea level, hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies congregate to spend the winter. They come from Canada and the Midwest U.S. They begin their 5000 kilometer journey in summer and ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Views [687]
It seems that once you meet another camper you can’t help but run into them again…and again! When we returned from Guanojuato today Art and Gillian who we had met in Zacatecas were camped nearby. Tony and Susan, our new friends, had met them last ... Read more >
Tags: friends
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 | Views [911]
We spent the last two nights in Zacatecas, the northernmost of Mexico’s famous silver cities and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is a hilly town of narrow, winding cobbled streets, climbing stairways and pastel houses. The centerpiece of Zacatecas ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Saturday, 17 Nov 2007 | Views [608]
Our first week has taken us down the center of Mexico from Cuidad Juarez to Zacatecos with a side trip to Barranca del Cobre or Copper Canyon. We are averaging just over 250 miles a day, not bad considering the 50 mph speed limit most of the way.... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [741]
Our friend Mike had hoped to travel along with us for a few weeks, as much to learn how to camp, he said, as to see Copper Canyon. He wanted us “veterans” to shepherd him through the border crossing into Mexico, little knowing that each crossing ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 | Photo Gallery
Culture and history in Mexico
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