Posts Tagged ‘market’
Getting Robbed but Staying Happy in San Cristobal
Monday, August 20th, 2007
A quick stop in Sumidero Canyon which was not that impressive even if there was no garbage floating in it, and a night in Tehuantepec, where I dared not take pictures of the locals and instead just went around the market to snap a shot of their colorful clothing which is still worn here every day, and we were in San Cristobal.
( in San Cristobal )
Tags: market, party
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And then there were two
Monday, August 13th, 2007
No Sergey, no Gombergs, only us dos to face the road and – with it – Mexican traffic. We would have set out of Mexico City a day earlier, right after visiting the ruins of Xachicalco with Nadia, but it turned out to be a hoy no circulo day for our GreenGo. In effort to reduce smog and traffic in the city, each day of the week cars with license plates ending in a particular number cannot drive. And our final number 3 meant no go for GreenGo.
( Four day road trip to the coast )
Tags: food, market, ruins
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Mexico – The City
Monday, August 6th, 2007
It’s nice to have friends, who have friends (or relatives), who don’t mind trying you in the role of friends who stay over. Especially for as long as a week. The Gombergs (![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
kon_ka,gomberg, and little Masia) have returned from their ten month long sabbatical in Spain the same day we rolled into Mexico City, and in two days were already ready to receive guests! My hat is off to them. Also was my backpack and the rest of our stuff now washed and resting outside the cramped space of our packing-cubes.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say Frida Kahlo to Mexico City is like Tango to Buenos Aires – it’s everywhere. You cannot escape it. Our few first days in Mexico City that is all we saw. Even on our first night we managed to grab the twenty last minutes of her exhibition in the Fine Arts Museum, and, I bet, this is just as much as sereshka could handle of her work. His vacation time was ending, and in few days we waved goodbye as he went back to his life in Canada, and we continued to explore Mexico City. It was such a shame he couldn’t stay longer! The Gombergs were not only ready to host, but to take us on the town. We spent day after day chasing Andrey down the streets, multitasking between snapping pictures and listening to his vast knowledge of architecture, politics, and economy.
It’s all a big mess in my head now, but I will not be waiting till the dust settles (places to go, people to see, as you know) and try to at least jot down a photo report of the architecture, crafts, and food we’ve experienced in the past week. One particular segment should be really interesting as it is an excursion to a small local food market where we ate quesadilla with everything from Calabaza Flowers to Corn Mold. Yum.
Tags: food, market
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Getting down and dirty
Friday, January 6th, 2006
We came back to La Paz completely exhausted and famished, checked into a hostel with a good shower and decided to give our aching muscles and lungs a little rest. We slept all day and it worked like a charm. By the end of the 5th we were ready to move on and caught a night bus to Potosí — the highest city in the world at 4,090m — where we planned to visit its famous silver mines and get dirty climbing inside narrow shafts.
( more… )
Tags: market, mines, people
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Most expensive meal
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
La Paz turned out to be a beautiful city with a huge and busy market where Shurik almost got pickpocketed; very political street art not only in form of highway side graffiti, but also on huge canvases displayed in public parks; and even something called the Witches Market, which turned out to be quite disappointing since, apart from bunches of dried up frogs and lama fetuses, it did not differ from any other market we have seen in South America so far.
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