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MEXICO | Tue, 30 Jun 2015 | By sheree | Views [624]
Cactus lined mountains appeared as the sun rose and eased the lack of sleep from the overnight bus ride.
We checked in to our hostel and had to wait a little bit for our rooms to be ready coz we arrived early. Another cool budget traveller ... Read more >
Tags: hot chocolate, mexico, mezcal, mole, mountains, oaxaca, streets, tapestry, tequila, tour
MEXICO | Thu, 21 Feb 2013 | By mattso | Views [507]
The day of the fiesta! Breakfast was a casual affair at La Palmitos before everyone started on the day's tasks. I went to see if Alving needed any help on site. There's still a fair bit of work going on there - toilets being installed, ... Read more >
Tags: beach, fiesta, mexico, oaxaca, san agustinillo
MEXICO | Fri, 8 Feb 2013 | By mattso | Views [757] | Comments [1]
I still seem to be waking up before the sun but it makes for a great start to the day when you assimilate to the dawn collective, by that I mean the fading stars, the lulling tide, the scurrying of sand crabs and the crowing of distant roosters. ... Read more >
Tags: mexico, oaxaca, pochutla
MEXICO | Thu, 7 Feb 2013 | By mattso | Views [826] | Comments [1]
The sunrise was a calming display of nature's own clock, neither meandering behind or racing ahead. Perfecto! I thinks my body clock is settling in to the new circadian rhythms of this place, and the simple breakfast I had kicked me off to ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, mazunte, mexico, oaxaca, san agustinillo
MEXICO | Sun, 6 Jan 2013 | By marionredding | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Hi my name is Marion I'm from México, i should be chosen because being a traveling photographer has being my dream for a long time, documental photograph is mi passion and i really need help to make my dream come true. thank for the opportunity.
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Tags: méxico, oaxaca
MEXICO | Fri, 21 Sep 2012 | By jennyoc | Views [1844]
It was about six months ago now when I made one of my most
exciting trips of my life: a 3 month volunteer programme in Mexico. This was
such an important and exciting trip for me as I had wanted to visit Mexico ever
since I could remember ... Read more >
Tags: cuisine, food, guerrero, insects, mexico, oaxaca
MEXICO | Wed, 23 Mar 2011 | By morgenvv | Views [582] | Scholarship Entry
Dawn comes early in Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico. Outside my door, the sounds of morning swell: the gentle scraping of a broom sweeping cobbles, the bagpipe bray of a donkey, the admonishments of one loud, insistent rooster. Whorls of low-hanging ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, mexico, morning, oaxaca, tortillas, travel writing scholarship 2011
MEXICO | Mon, 14 Feb 2011 | By ryanandjo | Views [2857]
We had a near miss on our return to Mexico. At the check in desk in Havana we were told that our flight was delayed 5 hours and were given food vouchers as compensation. At the
time our flight was meant to depart we decided to use our food vouchers ... Read more >
Tags: aztec, guadalajara, maya, mexico city, oaxaca, palenque, san cristobal, teotihuacan
MEXICO | Mon, 23 Nov 2009 | By rachel_and_daniel | Views [3624] | Comments [1]
We took the night bus to Oaxaca – an 11 hour journey down into the arid plains and up again into the mountains. This was our first taste of the massive scale of Mexico – it’s a big country! It was also our first taste of near ubiquitous cactus desert, ... Read more >
Tags: mitla, monte alban, oaxaca, santa maria del tule, semana santa, teotitlan del valle
MEXICO | Sat, 30 May 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [4912] | Comments [3]
13/5/09 - 22/5/09 Oaxaca to San Cristobal 468 km Oaxaca is a great city to enjoy some downtime, relaxing with our cycling friends Martin and Susy, checking out Monte Alban, wandering the markets and artesanias, the leafy ‘zocalo’ and working ... Read more >
Tags: cycling, food, mexico, mountains, oaxaca, san cristobal, sickness
MEXICO | Fri, 23 Jan 2009 | By alexandtheuniverse | Views [707] | Comments [1]
Classes at Amigos del Sol are wonderful. Four hours a day, the four of us are studying español, talking, learning tenses, and laughing a lot. The school is outside of town and the director, Rogelio, is about the nicest guy on Earth. Our maestros, ... Read more >
Tags: language school, oaxaca
MEXICO | Sun, 18 Jan 2009 | By alexandtheuniverse | Views [504]
After 25 hours on a single bus, we arrived in Oaxaca at 11 en la noche. The bus, like all first class buses in latin america, inexplicably played a variety of bad, bad American movies, either subtitled or dubbed in Spanish. The second one Ben Stiller ... Read more >
Tags: oaxaca