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Month: December 2012

  • World Trip 2012-13: Day 86 – San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico

    Friday 21 December 2012 Highlights: Surviving the 12 hour overnight bus ride, Chomula and Zincantan Mayan villages. The day actually started the night before at 9 pm when our bus pulled out of Oaxaca for a scheduled 12 hour overnight trip. It started well enough with Aaron and myself watching “True Lies” – thanks iPad!

  • World Trip 2012-13: Day 85 – Oaxaca to San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico

    Thursday 20 December 2012 Highlights: The magnificent Monte Alban Ruins We had a planned catch up with Sid for 10 am for those heading up to the Monte Alban Ruins. Due to a miscommunication the catchup didn’t occur instead Cynthia, Xinglu, Tina and myself headed off to find the tourist bus stop. We found Sam…

  • World Trip 2012-13: Day 84 – Oaxaca, Mexico

    Wednesday 19 December 2012 Highlights: Largest Tree in the World, Zapotec ruins, Petrified Waterfalls, Mezcal alcohol, Traditional clothes weaving. An enormous day of activities and and embarrassing moment for myself. Today I signed up for a multiple event tour out of Oaxaca. This started with a visit to Tule which has the largest (wildest) tree…

  • World Trip 2012-13: Day 83 – Puebla to Oaxaca, Mexico

    Tuesday 18 December 2012 Highlights: Magnificent mountains, Oaxaca Cathedral, nightclub drinking Today we had a 6 hour bus ride to Oaxaca a town of around 270,000 people. We are moving to smaller and smaller cities as we progress. The bus ride actually had one significant positive the scenery of the magnificent and dominating mountains.

  • World Trip 2012-13: Day 82 – Mexico City to Puebla, Mexico

    Monday 17 December 2012 Highlights: Puebla Cathedral, Zocalo (City Square), Lucha Libre, Billiards Our first bus ride of the tour turned out to be in a comfortable bus and only take a few hours to get to Puebla. First again I was surprised by the quality of the hotel on this basic tour. Our hotel…