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North America » Mexico » Puebla » Cuetzalan November 18th 2009

Hi everyone, So this blog has been on standby for a while as I have been waiting for the internet to be restored to my neighborhood and many houses in Puebla. A story came on the news a few days ago, about how the motherboards for Mega-cable had been robbed. Mega-cable provides cable, internet and telephone service to almost every house in the area and consequently the Internet cafes in the neighborhood. So as you can imagine, almost everyone is without internet. Although Puebla is an extremely modern and developed city there are always things like this to remind you how secure and organized things are in the US. Well these past few weeks I have begun my classes at the Anglo. So far I have about four classes per week on average, which is about ... read more
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North America » Mexico » Puebla » Cuetzalan March 23rd 2007

Cuetzulan is a very small town of steep cobble stone streets surrounded by a beautiful, lush, landscape and much poverty. I am one of the few tourists here (though there are a number of hotels for a place of this size) and definately the only foreigner - stand out of course and feel the hestitancy from the indegenous women around me - not me personally of course but it brings up those feelings. It is so quiet, got my wish for a place without cars - barely any and people walk in the centre of the streets and move when a car comes and cars make way for people. There is a central square with a small market on Thursdays of veggies, flowers, stuff, and meat including a pigs head on display. It is the only ... read more

North America » Mexico » Puebla » Cuetzalan March 21st 2007

I am now in the magical town of Cuetzalan in the Sierra Norte de Puebla after a bit of a circuatous (sp??) route - I went from Xalapa to Puebla yesterday, and from Puebla to here though I am geographically now much closer to Xalapa but a) wanted to see Puebla and b) could not figure out the bus route - ticketbus did not have a link though am sure you can do it through a combination of 2nd class bus (which I took here) and regional collectivos. Cuetzalan is one of the Puebos Magicos on the tourists brochures, and from the little I have seen it certainly is - while at a much lower elevation than Puebla (just under 1000 metres I believe), you feel that you are in the mountains, driving over twisting mountainous ... read more




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