Blogs from Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, North America

Today we went to the Silver mining town of Taxco. It was beautiful. The houses are on the mountain and it reminds you of homes in Spain, or Italy or Greece. Absolutely stunning. But with life on the mountain comes the need to walk up that mountain and we did a lot of that today! You can get a lot of silver items for cheap in this town so it was worth all the walking. After walking up one particularly steep hill we just made a decision that the first restaurant we saw we would eat at and we did. Even the restaurant had a terrific view. We ended up in the centro where the big catedral is located and some guy, who claimed he worked for the government, wanted to give us a tour. It ... read more

Hoy fui la clase final de la escuela de Espanol. Despues de las clases vamos en un viaje de Taxco. En Taxco vemos una catedral hermosa y una puebla blanca. Compramos mucha plata y bebimos Mascal cuando estamos comprandos muchas cosas. A la manana Vamos a Ir a la Ciudad de Mexoco, de el Bazar Sabado y Xochomilco por un excursion. Manana es la dia final de la escuela y tambien es el cumpleanos de Debra! ... read more

Taxco is a beautiful city about 1 hr and 45 min from Cuernavaca. There are a lot of silver mines there and the city is known for its charm, beauty, cheap silver, artisan markets, and STEEP streets. We started at the base of the city and walked to the highest point in the city called the Cristo Monumental that looks over all of Taxco. We didn't do bad for walking at an elevation of 5,600 ft. We even made some friends along the way. Can you call them friends if you pay for their company? paz, enchilada y chimi... read more

Finally, regrettably, after nearly a month of constant 30+ temperatures, sunshine and beaches, we slouched away from the Pacific coast, loaded down with some cool memories, and (me anyway) a totally ruined body from too much activity. We spent a few nights in Acapulco, which is worse than any horror stories you´ve read about beach resort places. However, seeing the Clavidistas doing there diving at sunset was pretty awesome. I imagined it being higher, but i still wouldnt have got any where near it, psychos. From here we went to Pie De La Cuesta, only 10k away, but the journey there took us 1hour, and the journey back took us longer. From what i could work out alll because 2 diggers were breaking rocks by the side of the road, not even on the road, just ... read more

We spent our last day in Zihua swimming, going to a political rally, and eating on the beach..today we travelled nine hours by bus to Taxco, and made our first mistake of the trip...we had to change buses in Acapulco, and realized too late that we should have broken the trip up by staying there over night.... We made it here, tired and hungry, but found a great hotel (Mi Casita) with a room for $62 that has a private rooftop balcony and breakfast included.... We had dinner in a little restaurant in a house next to the Cathedral..the owner grew up in Laredo TX, and moved back whe his mother died and left the house. Great food and conversation.... ... read more