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Published: February 25th 2008
We have just had the most amazing weekend ever! I cant wait until the easter holidays now for more travelly fun and high jinx. We all met up on the first weekend we were all free in Cuernavaca, the biggest city in Morelos, which is quite a nice town, nothing offensive and the zocalo is really pretty. Becky and I were first to arrive and sourced ourselves a room for the night, having been let down by the Lonely Planets first suggestion (which after an hours searching turned out to not exist) we signed for a double matrimonial suite for the night, only $100 each, what a bargain!
So when we were united with first Kerry, and later Ed, we went out to a bar which had a live salsa band playing and all the customers dancing in the aisles, to soak up the atmosphere with a few Margheritas and Coronas. After no time at all Kerry was asked to dance and was twirling and whirling and salsa-ing away which was all well and good and nice for her - until I got asked to dance too. Well I did explain that I couldnt actually do the salsa despite the
1 lesson at Ye Olde Belle I went to in the Summer and tried to refuse quite a few times, but he was quite persistent. Just DAM! It was so embarassing. Haha the forward backward thing is fine when I concentrate fully on it, but then he started throwing in a few spins and my feet just didnt know where they were, and THEN he started talking to me. I cant multi-task very well in English, especially when one of the tasks is dancing so I was extremely relieved to run away and sit down when the song finished! Unfortunately then I got asked to dance AGAIN! How rude, cant they just leave me alone?! Kerry eventually persuaded me to go for it and luckily (but strangely!) he didnt actually want to dance, he said he couldnt either and bought me a drink, introduced me to his friends and then complained a bit about how it was easy for girls to have drinks and food and clothes bought for them by guys and then when they get what they want they just leave...which was a bit wierd but his friends were nice and we talked about Taxco and what I
Hang Time
Hammocky Fun...I think I have a hammock face and it´s not attractive!am doing here and how long for and food and quite a few things. Still I was pretty pleased to escape and get in one of the matrimonial beds where we caught up on each others placements and experiences. Ed supervises machete-ing with his boys at the orphanage every afternoon and Kerry has to teach a 30 year old man daily not to play with himself!
Angie and Sarah arrived from Guadalajara at 7am and squeezed into our room for some more catching up before we got ready for the day ahead. The Mexican birthday of the Ed! When he went in the shower we ran out to buy him a cake, candles and balloons. It was meant to be a quick job but ended up taking us about an hour, Becky and Sarah had to pretend they had no idea where we had gone and I must say they did a pretty good job! He was sooooooooo happy when the flaming breakfast cake arrived, even covered in blue candle wax, and even when the magic candles wouldnt go out again. He also claimed to be suprised athough he did have a knife in his bag for cutting it...it
The Flaming Cake
Mexican Birthday Candles are a lot more heavy duty than English ones! was looooooooooooveeely cake!
All caked up we went to Taxco, about an hour and a half away, a smallish town famous for its long gone silver mines and more recently its silver crafting. It is different from other Mexican towns in that it has preeservation orders on it to keep all new buildings in line with the lovely colonial ones already there so even the petrol station is colonial. We set sail for the zocalo but were distracted by a museum of medievel torture and punishment, which was quite interesting but after a while severely disturbing!! I especially didnt like the idea of being hung upside down and sawed in half, so I stopped reading the information and just used my imagination, its never quite as bad!! The zocalo when we got there had the most beautiful church, and a gold and a silver mime artist, as well as being crowded with silver shops full of really nice jewellry. We had to be very sensible and serious with it (rubbish), though I did buy 2 pairs of ear rings after asking Ed and Angies opinion and they both chose different ones. The church when we went inside was really
Kerry and Myself.
Accompanied by a roasted banana which was yummy! quite a suprise, it was DRIPPING with gold, as though someone had just thrown it at the walls and hoped it stuck. I really wasnt expecting to see that when we walked through the doors!
Later in the afternoon we went on the teleferique to the top of the town to see the view. There wasnt really much up there apart from a 5 star hotel so we mooched round that for a while contemplating buying swimming stuff and using their pool. The ride back down was a lot less scary when I realised that the cars werent in fact attached to the wire by wheels but were stuck on so we werent going to have a runaway train experience! Duh.
The plan was to stay the night back here in Tepoztlan, which we duely did, but didnt arrive until about 10 and at first the hotels all seemed to be full. Luckily we found an amazing hotel with an igloo in the garden, where we sat for most of the evening/early morning until the bottle of tequila was gone (a sad moment).
Sunday we climbed the Tepozteco, an archaelogical site on a mountian above the town.
Unfortunately Kerry, Angie and Sarah hadnt been warned and only had flip-flops (highly unreccomended by the guide book!) but we felt this only made reaching the pyramid at the top even more of an achievement. The climb was really steep in places and really seriously uneven! It was like a rough rock stair case up the side of the mountain and you had to chose your next rock with care or die...possibly. Reaching the top was so worth it though, the view was amazing and the pyramid nice to sit on but most of all the sense of satisfaction was immense! We were all pretty pleased with ourselves, especially the flip-flop contingent. The descent was a bit more shakey legged and hairy though! Total concentration was required!! And about 3 men coming the other way offered to help me down steeper bits so I must not have looked too comfortable!
After all that excitement we browsed round the market buying friendship bracelets, a trend started by the boy of the group I hasten to add, and headed back to the camp to swim in the pool, Im not altogether sure whether this kind of activity is permitted by our rules but it was nice to bob about, and probably got our feet a lot cleaner than they have been for a while! Later on when Angie and Sarah tried to leave the gate was locked (I really hate it when they do that!!) so we spent about half an hour trying to break out as there seemed to be no-one to open it and the cooks dont have a key. We were sadly unsuccessful, even when we found a ladder! Looks like it cant be done without being barbed wire spiked. Or jumping a long way back down the other side! EEK. But then along came a gardener, man of few words and he released us!
Bad news! This computers gone wierd about putting my photos on so I will update them in a couple of days on a different one! There are loads of really good ones, I promise.
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