Blogs from Estado de Mexico, Mexico, North America - page 7

The second day we went to Teotihuacan - we really had to practice that for a long time before we could say it right - a huge ruins site about 30 miles north of Mexico City. It took about 1 1/2 hours to get there because of the crazy traffic. Then we went to the museum of anthropology and the National Palace where Diego Riviera murals tell about pre-colombian indian history. Beautiful! However, the poverty outside of the main part of downtown is stark. Market stalls are covered with plastic tarps. Houses are cinder block in various stages of disrepair, many without roofs....a really different way of living. Very disheartening to see so many people living in these conditions.... read more

On a lovely sunny warm mid winter's day I scaled at least the lower reaches of the Pyramid of the Sun. That's vertigo for you.... read more

Hi Folks! At the airport in Mexico city waiting for Colin to find me. In the meantime, a little about Cuba. I had the disadvantage of not having enough Spanish to talk to people, ask questions, except when being taken to the teachers training college (on two separate occassions). A translator went with me, which was brilliant! Among others, I met one of the Cuban women who had gone to NZ to promote the Green Light adult literacy programme that UNITE had hoped to use in courses taught by the Wananga to UNITE members. I got a better sense of what they were trying to do, listened to very long verbal and video presentations of the college. Used to be army barracks in Batista´s time. The tourist areas in Old Havana are a bit like a ... read more

Day 6 The ride to Toluca started off beautifully, we were weaving thru the mountains of Morelia. While traveling thru heavily forested mountain sides we would pass thru several grassy pastures filled with horses and cows lazily grazing the day away. We also passed some small villages that seemed to be in the middle of no where and lost in time. You couldn´t help but wonder how different your life would have been had you grown up here. The further in our journey we got the more the road deteriorated. This was not the 1st class bus like we had taken to Cuernavaca. Not only was it lacking AC and a movie, it also seemed to be lacking vital suspension components. The 800,000 or so speed bumps were having an affect on Laura´s stomach. Her face ... read more

Dost bolo megamesta. Jedem na pyramidy. Slavny Teotihuacan, jedno z prvnich obrovskych mexickych mest a velkych mest sveta vubec je od centra Mexico City relativne nedaleko, od jeho predmesti je uz jen co by kamenem dohodil. Nejakou dobu se propletate preplnenymi ulicemi metropole, pak minete okrajove ctvrti, ktere nemaji konce a najedete na dalnici. Po ni si to sinete asi tak 10 minut a jste na miste. Areal Teotihuacanu je obrovsky. Jde-li s Vami pruvodce, 5 hodin vam na zakladni prohlidku sotva staci. Hlavni trida, Trida Mrtvych, vas postupnym stoupanim a pres prekazky dovede k tem nejvetsim perlam archeologicke zony - Pyramide Slunce a nasledne i Pyramide Mesice. Cestou vas vydatne masyruji prodejci suvenyru. V nabidce jsou luky a sipy, krabicka napodobujici zvuk jaguara, seredne sklenene a nabarvene tomahawky, ale hlavne vyrobky z obsidianu - vsechny ... read more