http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Jalisco , Guadalajara en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:28:26 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:28:26 UTC We were treated to some spectacular canyon views on this perfect Sunday afternoon. The park and overlook are next to the school of architecture of Universidad de Guadalajara about 30 minutes from Guadalajara's Centro Histrico. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-349717.html Guadalajara is Mexicos second biggest city and I had to go here to catch a flight to the US border to visit Liz. Due to my detour to Oaxaca and Puerto Escondido I only ended up having around 30 hours to see the city.Guanajuato was only a few hours away by bus so I ended up arriving around 1030pm in the city which I try to avoid doing due to the hassle and risk in wandering around like a lost tou http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-346754.html From Puerto Vallarta we planned to go to Tequila home of you guessed it tequila. However sometimes plans need to be changed and when we heard there was a Lucha Libre look it up in Guadalajara the next night we couldnt pass it up. Unfortunately we couldnt bring cameras in but it was pure chaos. Something we wish all our friends could experience with us. We met a guy from outside Mexico http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-346322.html Viva Mxico cabrones GuadalajaraTheyrsquove got some cool names for towns and cities here in Mex. ldquoGuadalajarardquo sounds a lot more exotic than ldquoSwindonrdquo you have to admit. Irsquod almost move to Quertaro just so I could say ldquoQuertarordquo a lot. Caffeine WoesOK Irsquove said it before and Irsquoll say it again Mexican coffee is terrible. Dang Yankee http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-337707.html That's right your eyes don't deceive you I ate goat. Aaannnd....let me tell you...it was pretty damn good. Birria de chivo is what its called. Guadalajara is known for it. The city is also where mariachi music originated from. There's a plaza here called La Plaza de Los Mariachis where you can go and grab a bite to eat at the restaurants around there and listen to mariachi music. Pretty co http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-332384.html Hey guys my bad for not writing on the blog for a while its been well not crazy but I'm definitely settling into life Mexican style. So I haven't had any traveling adventures so to speak rather I've been getting to know Guadalajara and the people here. Exciting things that have occurred include going to my first ever soccer match attending a concert of spanishfrench singer Manu Chao who c http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-331989.html Intially I was not excited about traveling to Guadalajara. I didn't know any Spanish and I didn't know if there would be anything to do there. In the end it didn't matter that I didn't know much of the language I was able to get by using basic phrases and there was plenty to do in this fantastic city. Easily my favorite thing about Guadalajara was the food REAL Mexican food. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-324771.html So i finally left Oaxaca Im in Guadalajara in the airport hotel... but i'll get back to that in a minute... I stopped working about a month ago and took some time to get to know the state of Oaxaca. Chuck came to visit and we went to San Jose del Pacifico a town known for their magic mushrooms... Actually calling it a town is being extremely generous. its a village of about 250 inhabita http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-323992.html Okay i am just giving a brief overview of what has been going on because it has been such a long time since i last wrote. okay two fridays ago we went to this really cool bar called banana cafe. we went with these two guys from Mexico that we met through a program at our school. it was super funny because the guys told the waiter that it was two of the girls birthdays. and for birthdays what http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-322212.html I'm very sorry I can't write much this time but I think the photos and whatnot are better experience than anything I can describe. Last Sunday in the centre of the city the International Mariachi Festival was held and it was MAD Last Friday Katherine and I decided to visit Lake Chapala which is about an hours south from Guadalajara and the largest inland lake in Mexico or something like that. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-321040.html Hey Guys I am finally going to catch you up on my first week. I am so lazy i don't know if this whole blog thing is going to work. haha. like my arms seriously get tired from typing. haha. anyway i am going to update you. Sunday 24th of August Day 2 of TripSo something freaking hilarious happened this day and I am just going to focus on that. So by this point me and my roommate were defini http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-318321.html Its been a scarycrazyfunnyannoying week our first week at the University of Guadalajara universidad de Guadalajara. I'll start from the beginning but I'll say now its been an pretty stressful. As of Monday we had to both attend classes enroll in subjects and generally get through all the normal administration that you have to do at the start of any semestre at uni... in spanish... not know http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-317708.html EStoy a 4 horas DE partir y me siento FELiZ no SAben Cuanto me lleVo de muesTras de CArio de ToDA mi GEnte AmiGos y FamiLia. Creo Que a lo largo de Todo Este ProcESo he pasAdo por MomEntos DiFiciles indiFerentes de Gran iMporTancia etc. Pero soBre Todas ESas Cosas El saBer quE El FinAl Es lo mEjor lo Ms EnriQueceDor es el plaTo fuerTE que Te deJa el SAboR de boCA a alGo ExTraoRdinARi http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-317077.html Hello my friendsAs you all know I am here in Guadalajara for the next couple of months. I thought it would be cool to keep you guys updated...well those of you want to know..about what I am up to here. There will be lots of funny stories to come. So I will start with my first day going to Guadalajara. So I left my house at 4 in the morning to get the airport in Sacramento. As soon as I got th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-316510.html Its only been a couple of days since my last post but a couple of things have happened that I know you'll want to hear about....Monday was a big day for us as it was the deadline in which we had to get our visas processed you have to register with the government so they know you're here and of course my alarm didn't go off so we're running humungusly late etc lots of panicking and one expensi http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-314358.html Instead of traveling Katherine and I kept to the city this week settling into our new place and exploring the surrounding area. Even though we're still in our own city its still been a pretty eventful week we've found our local supermarket which is like ours but on steroids its huge our local park which is actually all boarded up and inaccessible some places to eat bus stops etc. All t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-313646.html Ina and I arrived home safely last night. We still felt like we were on vacation as we sat on the couch to look over our pictures and talk about our trip. These are our favorites. EnjoyMuch love from the tired travelersRicki Ina http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-310940.html This morning after breakfast Ina and I had volcanic ash mud baths. It's just as sticky as it sounds but after you bake in the sun for half an hour the mud hardens. Then you're more like a statue than a person. Luckily warm spring water melts the mud away revealing skin so soft that you want to run around petting yourself saying look how soft my skin is. No seriously it was that soft.We we http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-310280.html On the plane into Guadalajara our stewardess said Welcome to Gauda...Guada... Mexico. Since we are fairly certain that they did not rename the city it just proves our theory that if you can't pronounce the name of where you are going you should not be allowed to go there. We are not in Guada Guada but we are in the beautiful mountains of Guadalajara Mexico. Rio Caliente is an oasis of rel http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-309920.html I don't have time to write very much right now but I thought you would all like to see a picture of my trip to an hacienda in Los Altos de Jalisco. The 19261929 war between federal troops and Catholic rebels or Cristeros climaxed in the upland Los Altos region northeast of Guadalajara. The cause of the conflict was the enforcement of the anticlerical laws from the 1917 constitution which http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-309074.html Pues BienVendidos sean Todos Ustedes a sto Que EstoY comenzando sTo que Empez desde haCe ya Algun Tiempo. Tiempo en El Que me he esforzado me he dedicado y he logrado tanTas Cosas Gracias a muuchas Personas con las que Cuento y con las Que estoy Agradecida InfiniTamente. Todo empez desde aquella platica de induccion en CuCea. Donde nos propusieron e inculcaron hacer un Intercambio...... y f http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-308314.html Another few days have passed and I'm still here pottering around and trying to settle in to life Mexican style. Katherine my loyal sidekick and fellow wandererUdeG exchange student arrived on Tuesday. I took a trip on the local bus down to the airport which took around an hour to get 20km. OH and S doesnt' exist down here I was sitting on the bus in one lane and it had just rained so another http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-307302.html I've officially been in Mexico for one week and I'm having such a great time. It is so completely different from anything in Australia its mindblowing I'm currently living in Hostel Guadalajara which is in the centre of the old quarter of the city 'Centro Historico' and is within walking distant to the majority of sites in Guadalajara. I've spent the majority of the week getting my bearings http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-305653.html It was fun . . . after the dance floor got crowded. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-305132.html Theyre Kirsty McCalls words not mine. Actually Ive not met a man but really Im not complaining. Theres been way too much other stuff to keep me occupied without adding a man to the mix. I keep saying that we are packing in so much into this holiday and Charlie has suggested that at times we do not pack it in as much as extend the packing...Just for something different our first day i http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-292109.html My friend Geoff's visit to Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque was a blast. We had the chance to catch up over some good meals and a run at the local park. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-290334.html Hola amigos. El domingo pasado disfrut de La Va RecreActiva un evento comunitario en El Centro Histrico de Guadalajara. Mucha gente viaja por bicicleta a lo largo de La Calle Benito Jurez. Mis amigos y yo encontramos un grupo que estaba promoviendo la paz mundial. Nos dio el grupo unas camisetas y unas gorras y participamos en la marcha. Despus fuimos a El Instituto Cultural Cabaas http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-276610.html Guadalajara Hello all Sorry it has been so long since I have posted Things here have been so busy Last time I wrote we had just returned from Guanajuato and that was an amazing trip Last week we only had 3 days of school because of labor day on Thursday and so I took off to Guadalajara to visit Erika and Mateo. It was an awesome weekend For the first couple of days Mateo hadn't arrived yet fr http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-274243.html So far in Mexico we had very few issues with taxis but in Guadalajara we found a taxi rank at the second class bus terminal that wanted P50 for a short ride. We just walked on a bit. A taxi was dropping off so we asked what the ride would cost and he said P35 but pointed us back at the taxi rank. We just carried on walking until the taxi driver felt comfortable about taking us out of turn. We tr http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-273374.html My first international race was quite an experience there should be pictures soon. I participated in La Carrera Pedestre de las Crucitas in Tlaquepaque so named because the 10k race course passes by capillas small chapels. The race took place at 6 PM and I'm guessing the temperature in the sun was 95 degrees. That was brutal but there was plenty of water along the course to douse myself http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Jalisco/Guadalajara/blog-272784.html