Blogs from Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, North America - page 2

Our travels took us to Tequila, Jalisco. Yes, there is actually a place called Tequila and we spent an entire day there!!!On the way to Tequila your mouth starts to water as you pass the blue fields of the agave plant, the cactus-like plant from which tequila is distilled. Less than one hour later, we had arrived and to our surprise the finality of one of the most popular telenovela's was being taped that day. Distilando Amor, the telenovela, in Mexico can be equated to Grey's Anatomy or in the past, Friends. Our morning started off a bit slower than we had planned because we spent time watching the taping of the wedding for the final episode along with the rest of the town of Tequila. We just watched the final show of Distilando Amor on ... read more

yesterday I met two girls, wendy and ling, and they had already planned to go to the town of tequila, where i had wanted to go sometime or another, so i told them i´d join in. at first we were going to go it alone, take the bus there and then just wander and find a tour. after the hostel staff gave us looks like ´´really are you kidding )no question marks on this keyboard that i can see.... we decided to go on the alberto tour. alberto works at the hostel and gives tours, including transportation, tour, and lunch for 25usd. by this time the group included a japanese guy named akira who speaks hardly any english or spanish, ling from hong kong whose english is good but spanish not so much, wendy who is ... read more

This Saturday I went with most of the other volunteers from my organisation to Tequila, the town from which the drink first came. We went to the National Tequila museum where we were told in a terrible English translation (possible courtasy of Freetranslation.com) about the history of Tequila... Tequila drink. First aformentioned made by people local in sixteen century from cactus middle, not distilled but fermentation by people natural... you get the idea! We then headed out to a nearby factory where we were given a short tour of the factory and the manufacturing process. At first I wasn´t sure what was wierd about the factory and then I realised that it was not running. The factory stopped for lunch, and only ran when there was demand, which doesn´t seem particularly efficient, but does seem very ... read more