Negotiating the terrain
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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the wors... [read more]
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the wors... [read more] Blog: A Week in Oaxaca
Date: February 4th 2008
Its sometimes nice when you're travelling to stay in one place for a while, and to feel like you actually got to know a city just a little beyond what the average tourist who passes through gets to see. I´d been planning to do a week´s spanish course somewhere early on in my travels, and recommendations from various guidebooks and people I´d met on the road suggested that [url=http://en.wikip ... read more
Date: February 4th 2008
Its sometimes nice when you're travelling to stay in one place for a while, and to feel like you actually got to know a city just a little beyond what the average tourist who passes through gets to see. I´d been planning to do a week´s spanish course somewhere early on in my travels, and recommendations from various guidebooks and people I´d met on the road suggested that [url=http://en.wikip ... read more
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Hi, this is the blog of this New Zealander's travels of the length of Central America between January and July 2008. At the start the plan was to take in the southern parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, maybe Panama and maybe even Colombia if I got that far. Basically all I knew for sure was that I would land in Mexico City on January 13th with accom booked for 4 nights there - the plan for the rest was... ummm... what plan?!
But what I learnt was I got a lot more out of my experience in each country if I spent a bit more time in each, rather... full info
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