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View from the Palace at Cortez  
   

View from the Palace at Cortez

From the balcony of the palace you can see the Tutti Bus that we took on our sightseeing tour. The plaza is called the Zocalo and there are always at least 100 indigenous women who are bent on selling you a necklace. I am the proud owner of two such necklaces but now avoid the plaza like the plague.
Cuernavaca Adventures

July 2nd 2008
Hola mi familia & amigos, I was not sure if the last blog posted as the computer kept crashing and was very slow. I was glad to see that most of what I put on was published. We are winding down with three days left before we return home. Yesterday we went on a tour of the large Cathedral in Cuernavaca. It is the oldest Spanish structure still standing in the Western Hemisphere. We learned t ... read more
North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca

Mexican Flag 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 worst... ... read more
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