Category Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.)
Mexico: Oaxaca – Part Six
November 23 – 27 Our last day in Oaxaca would be busy and yet relaxing as we planned a trip to see the Tule Tree on the outskirts of town and then take a cooking class in the afternoon. After our very entertaining and successful class in Barcelona in 2017, we’ve eager to do another […]
Mexico: Oaxaca – Part Five
November 23 – 27 We left Café Brujula and walked a couple of blocks to Porfirio Diaz to Espacio Zapata, a workshop and gallery founded by the art collective Asaro (Assemblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca) in 2006. A great deal of the imagery here is related to death and day of the dead, but […]
Mexico: Oaxaca – Part Four
November 23 – 27 After our tasty snack, we walked up to the Templo de Santo Domingo, a former Dominican monastery (we’d visit it later in our stay) stopping at a number of shops to check out the merchandise. From there we walked through a small street market, one of many around the city, a […]
Mexico: Oaxaca – Part Three
November 23 – 27 After another filling breakfast, we plotted out our plan for the day, the big-ticket item to be a visit to Monte Alban to see one of the top five pyramid complexes in Mexico. We first considered taking a guided tour of the site, but after doing some research determined that it […]
Mexico: Oaxaca – Part Two
November 23 – 27 Breakfast the next morning would become a reassuring and filling habit, a small buffet of fruit, muffins, bread, cereal, yoghurt and various things to drink. You’d fill your plate and sit at one of the tables on the rooftop, the sounds of a waking city bubbling up from the street below. […]
Mexico: Mexico City – Part Six
November 19 – 22 Navigating that next morning was made easier as we were to meet our tour group at the front steps of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Using our knowledge of the metro system this time around, we were able to locate a station a bit closer to the site making for a […]
Mexico: Mexico City – Part Five
November 19 – 22 We left the cathedral and walked over to the National Palace, the seat of the federal government in Mexico. This site has been a palace for the ruling class of Mexico since the Aztec Empire and much of the current palace’s building materials are from the original one that belonged to […]
Mexico: Mexico City – Part Four
November 19 – 22 We found navigating the Mexico City Metro system to be fairly easy and enjoyed traveling on it with one exception; during certain times of the day it could become unbearably crowded, the bane of any large train system. A number of times we had to almost force ourselves into a car […]
Mexico: Mexico City – Part Three
November 19 – 22 We left the Museo and found ourselves a place to sit and view the procession now coming down Ave. de la Reforma. Much to Joanna’s delight, we’d hit that portion of the parade featuring legions of horses, the riders all decked out in costumes saluting their region, or the occupation they […]
Mexico: Mexico City – Part Two
November 19 – 22 The Museo Nacional Anthropolgia, the largest and most visited museum in Mexico, is located in Chapultepec Park, one of the biggest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring just over 1,695 acres (Central Park in NYC is 842 acres, Griffith Park in L.A. is 4,300 acres). Centered on a rock formation […]
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