View of Guanajuato, Mexico, from Pipila Monument
Not only is the hilltop above Guanajuato, Mexico the site of a monument to Pipila, the miner who led the first charge of Mexico's War for Independence in Guanajuato in 1810, it provides stunning views of the city. To read more about my world travels visit my blog,
Guanajuato - Callejon Bajando de El Pípila al Centro de la Ciudad
Guanajuato Callejon Bajando de El Pípila al Centro de la Ciudad
Esta es una de las posibles rutas a seguir si quieren bajar de el monumento a el Pípila hasta el centro de la ciudad de Guanajuato. La primera parte es por lo que se conoce como callejon de San Miguel, y a partir de la parte mas baja es el callejon de Barranca. Este desemboca a la calle de Alonso en el corazón de Guanajuato.
Guanajuato Mexico Tourism: Jardin de la Union Dog Begs for Food
As Lydi and I sit and eat rice and tortillas between Spanish classes, a sad dog comes up and begs for food. She's got a real compelling look...we almost give in to her when she finally decides to go off in search of better prey.
The Cities of Mexico
A tour of the cities of Mexico.
Mexico City, Mexico Travel - Coyoacan Neighborhood
The trendy and historically rich neighborhood of Mexico City.
Coyoacan is a beautiful colonial neighborhood in Mexico City. It actually used to be a separate town in the past, but over time became part of Mexico City. Even today, amidst the three lined streets and colonial buildings, you can get a feel of life back in the early 20th century.
One of the most recognizable symbols is Parroquia de San Bautista, which was built in the 16th century. The church has been well-preserved, and besides religious activities, you can get married here. The church is located in the plaza area of Coyoacan, which is made of Plaza d'Hidalgo and Jardin del Centenario. This is really the heart of Coyoacan during the weekends.
Restaurants, bars and cafes line up the plaza, providing a good vantage point for people watching. Coyoacan is famous for its ice cream. During the weekends it has a festive feel with open air markets, musicians, and performers entertaining the locals. I am Erika Zavala, showing you Mexico City.
Hospicio Cabañas - Guadalajara, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico
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Built in the early 19th century, the chapel is famous for a series of murals painted by José Clemente Orozco.
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City Tour, Puebla, Mexico
Discover Puebla, an official Magical City in Mexico. Puebla is a World Heritage Site, with views of the Popo and Izta volcanoes. Here in Puebla, enjoy colonial architecure, specialized cuisine, artisans and charm. Founded by the Spanish in 1531, this city is the Angelopolis loved by everyone. My tour through the city of angels began with a late morning city tour atop a double decker bus. Puebla is home to many historic sites and architecure, literally dozens.
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Mexico-Merida in pictures Part 6
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Mérida is the capital of the Mexican State of Yucatán and largest city of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km (22 mi) from the Gulf of Mexico coast. The city is also the municipal seat of the Municipality of Mérida, which includes the city and the areas around it.
According to the 2010 census, the population of Mérida was 970,377, ranking 12th among the most populous Mexican metropolitan areas. The municipality's area is 858.41 km2 (331.43 sq mi). The metropolitan area includes the municipalities of Mérida, Umán and Kanasín and had a population of 1,035,238 in the same 2010 census. It is the largest of the four cities of the world that share the name Mérida, the other three being in Spain, Venezuela and The Philippines.
The city, like much of the state, has heavy Mayan, French, British and to a lesser extent Dutch influences. Mérida has the highest percentage of indigenous persons of any large city in Mexico with approximately 60% of all inhabitants being of the Maya ethnicity.
Mérida is serviced by Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (IATA airport code: MID)
Mérida is located in the northwest part of the state of Yucatán, which occupies the northern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. To the east is the state of Quintana Roo, to the west is the state of Campeche, to the north is the Gulf of Mexico, and far to the south is the state of Chiapas. The city is also located in the Chicxulub Crater. It has a very flat topography and is only 30 feet (9 m) above sea level. The land outside of Mérida is covered with smaller scrub trees and former henequen fields. Almost no surface water exists, but several cenotes (underground springs and rivers) are found across the state. Mérida has a centro histórico typical of colonial Spanish cities. The street grid is based on odd-numbered streets running east/west and even-numbered streets running north/south, with Calles 60 and 61 bounding the Plaza Grande in the heart of the city. The more affluent neighborhoods are located to the north and the most densely populated areas are to the south. The Centro Histórico area is becoming increasingly popular with American and other expats who are rescuing and restoring the classic colonial structures. The Los Angeles Times recently noted this surge of interest in rescuing Mérida's historic downtown.
Climate
Merida features a tropical wet and dry climate.The city lies in the trade wind belt close to the Tropic of Cancer, with the prevailing wind from the east. Mérida's climate is hot an its humidity is moderate to high, depending on the time of year. The average annual high temperature is 33 °C (91 °F), ranging from 28 °C (82 °F) in January to 36 °C (97 °F) in May, but temperatures often rise above 38 °C (100 °F) in the afternoon in this time. Low temperatures range between 18 °C (64 °F) in January to 23 °C (73 °F) in May and June. It is most often a few degrees hotter in Mérida than in coastal areas due to its inland location and low elevation. The rainy season runs from June through October, associated with the Mexican monsoon which draws warm, moist air landward. Easterly waves and tropical storms also affect the area during this season.
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Zacatecas: The colonial center of this city is a UNESCO World Heritage site and features elaborately decorated buildings, cobblestone streets, and wrought-iron lanterns.
The city features old and beautiful churches built in the New Spain Era, with decorated, old buildings. The municipality has touristic forests, and Sierra de Organos, world famous for filming of western movies.
(Zacatecas City), has colonial buildings and the Santuario and Parroquial Churches, made known internationally by Lopez Velarde, a writer born in that city. It also has beautiful colonial buildings some of which are now lighted at night. Jérez was designated as a Pueblo Mágico in 2007 because of its customs, traditions, cuisine and its people. More than 20 years in the past (1988) it had already been designated as a National Monument.
The Rafael Coronel museum is unique in that it holds a collection of over 5,000 masks. It is one of the largest mask collections in Mexico, with pieces from throughout the country.[22]
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The current governor of Zacatecas is Miguel Alonso Reyes (PRI). The state is represented by three representatives in the Mexican senate: Mejía Haro Antonio (PRD), Tomás Torres Mercado (PRD) and José Isabel Trejo Reyes (PAN). Zacatecas also has 9 representatives in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies: 9 of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, 3 of the National Action Party and 1 of the Ecologist Green Party.
Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City
The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as the Blue House for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Puebla, Mexico - Unravel Travel TV
Puebla City Centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site and it is one of Mexico's best-preserved Spanish Colonial treasures. It contains some 2,600 designated historic buildings. As Mexican cities go, this is a very pedestrian-friendly city and easy to explore on foot. If you'd rather not walk, a red double-decker Turibus runs narrated tours departing every half hour. You'll find both a bus stop and a tourist information booth in the zócalo.
Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception: built from 1575 -- 1640, its towers (at 73.9 m; 244 f) are considered the highest in the country and even Latin America. It is noted for its marble floors, rich gold leaf interior, and awesome main altar -- designed by Manuel Tolsa and depicting the kings and queens of 17th century Europe.
Palacio Municipal (Town Hall): Built on the original Spanish authority seat of government, the current Palacio dates from the beginning of the 2oth century, with a strong neoclassical architecture of the period of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. The style was also inspired by French architecture, which was fashionable at that time. In the interior houses a courtyard with a beautiful marble staircase.
Church of Santo Domingo: Considered by some to be Mexico's most exuberantly decorated temple, Santo Domingo dates from 1650. Its Capilla del Rosario is a dazzling mix of painted tiles, gold leaf, and sculpture. The Chapel dates from the second half of the 17th century and constitutes one of the greatest achievements of baroque art in the Americas. The chapel is laminated with 22k gold over stucco. A true wonder to behold.
Biblioteca Palafoxiana: Don't miss a visit to the New World's first public library! This site dates to the 17th century and once housed the hemisphere's finest collection of manuscripts. Today there are over 43,000 books in its inventory, including rare works from the 15th century. The site is located on the upper level of the Casa de la Cultura, next to the Cathedral.
Some other masterpieces of colonial architecture you can admire in Puebla Centre are the Ex-Convent of Santa Rosa, home to Puebla's excellent Museo de Artesanias; the Secret Convent of Santa Monica, built in the 17th century; the Museo Universitario - Casa De Los Muñecos, one of the most peculiar examples of civil baroque style in New Spain; the Iglesia de San Francisco, located in the oldest part of the city, and Museo Casa de Alfeñique, that owes its name to the abundant and fine ornamentation of white argamasa which looks like the famous sugar candies made in Puebla called alfeñiques.
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In Mexico, migrants turn to 'The Beast' after highway raids
(24 Apr 2019) The train known as The Beast is once again rumbling through the night loaded with people headed toward the U.S. border after a raid on a migrant caravan threatened to end the practice of massive highway marches through Mexico.
A long freight train loaded with about 300 to 400 migrants pulled out of the southern city of Ixtepec on Tuesday.
They sat atop rattling boxcars and clung precariously to ladders alongside the clanking couplings. Most were young men, along with a few dozen women and children.
Mothers clambered up the railings clutching their infants. Migrants displayed a Honduran flag from atop the train.
The train known in Spanish as La Bestia, which runs from the southern border state of Chiapas into neighboring Oaxaca and north into Gulf coast state Veracruz, carried migrants north for decades, despite its notorious dangers: People died or lost limbs falling from the train. Mexican authorities started raiding the trains to pull migrants off in mid-2014 and the number of Central Americans aboard the train fell to a smattering.
But about a week ago, a longtime migrant rights activist, the Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, noticed a change: Large numbers of migrants started getting off the train in Ixtepec, the Oaxaca town where his Brothers on the Road shelter is located.
Many had waited weeks for Mexican visas that never materialized, and simply decided to head north without papers.
Others were part of a 3,000-person migrant caravan that was broken up in a raid Monday by federal police and immigration agents on a highway east of Ixtepec.
With dozens of police and immigration checkpoints dotting the highways, many migrants now view the train as a safer, albeit still risky, way to reach the U.S. border.
On Monday federal police and agents detained 367 people, wrestling men, women and children into patrol trucks and vans and hauling them off, presumably to begin deportation proceedings.
Many other migrants abandoned the road and fled into the surrounding countryside.
The decision to turn to The Beast derives from several reasons, all related to the crackdown.
With throngs of police pickups and small immigration vans parked at checkpoints up and down the narrow waist of southern Mexico, hitchhiking, taking buses or walking is no longer an option.
Truckers, warned by the government that they could face fines, no longer give rides to the migrants as they did last year. Migrants are pulled off buses, and rounded up off the sides of highways when they stop to rest.
We cannot travel by bus because we do not have the papers to do it, said Rudi Margarita Montoya, the wife of a Honduran carpenter, who was perched atop a freight car with her young son and daughter and her husband.
It's not as if the migrants think the train is safe; they acknowledge the dangers of riding through the darkness perched high atop the freight cars.
Just like increased U.S. border protection, Mexico's increased enforcement efforts push migrants into using more dangerous means of travel.
Mexican policy has changed driving may on the train to board.
In late 2018 and early 2019 authorities were handing out humanitarian visas and processing asylum requests, they have now largely stopped doing so, instead making migrants wait weeks in the southern town of Mapastepec for visas that never seem to come.
The train was popular for years, back when caravan just meant small Holy Week demonstrations by migrants on the Guatemala-Mexico border.
Now, the train is popular once again.
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Tequisquiapan is a charming spa town in the state of Queretaro, in the Colonial Highlands. The town is popular as a weekend getaway for those in Mexico City (about 2 hours away) and in Queretaro, the state capital, which is less than an hour away. The town's center has lovely colonial buildings and a stunning salmon-and-cream-colored church in the main square. The video footage shows a bride in a horse-drawn carriage...just as she's making her way into the church to get married.
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Puebla Travel Video - Once a bastion of conservatism, Catholicism and tradition, Puebla has come out of its colonial-era shell in recent years. The city retains a fantastically well-preserved center, a stunning cathedral and a wealth of beautiful churches, while younger poblanos (people from Puebla) are embracing the citys increasingly thriving art and nightlife scenes.
The city is well worth a visit, with 70 churches in the historic center alone, more than a thousand colonial buildings adorned with the azulejos (painted ceramic tiles) for which the city is famous, and a long culinary history that can be explored in any restaurant or food stall. For a city of its size, Puebla is far more relaxed and less gridlocked than you might expect.
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Palenque & San Cristobal including Xmel Easton-martin's photos around San Cristobal de las Casas
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Entry Title: Palenque & San Cristobal including Xmel
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On the way to Pelenque we visited Xmel, its even bigger than Chichen Itza and has fantastic carvings. Pelenque is set in the Chipas jungle, we saw toucans and heard howler monkeys. The site has parts under gound that you can walk through and you can climb some of the pyramid temples. Its similar, but different enough to be well worth the visit. We moved on to San Cristobal in the highlands, in a mini bus ( am missing the public buses with chickens ) and got held up for a couple of hours as there was a prang on one of the bends between a lorry and car. This gave Bri a chance to play cards with the locals, only loosing his car, house and children in the process. It rained in big splobs overnight , so the Misol-Ha and Agua Azul waterfalls were a muddy brown colour, instead of the turquise blue seen in post cards. The indigenous people in the highlands are amazing. They managed to resist being conquered by the Spanish and each village has its own traditional dress, language, religious ceromonies and laws. Bri managed to snap a great pic as we were leaving, their clothes are brightly coloured and all hand woven.They use the abandoned catholic churches for their own worship, which often involves live chickens....much more fun than the Pope ranting! They have a really low crime rate as they have prisons that have doors facing the street, to shame people and if you re- offend they may chuck out of the village. The street kids here are really cheeky, if they see you eating, they ask for food, I gave up my breakfast and lunch in the same day. Bri has become a babe magnet to the girls selling bracelets ...they see him coming from miles away! Mable x Oh look. more grey pyramidy looking buildings AND these are even bigger, gosh Mac was enjoying himself. The guides have been very good and brought the sites to life. They were really cleaver builders the Myans, secret passages, underground chambers with hidden locking systems, just like in the Tomb Raider games, Bri keeps moaning that his new 2GB card is not big enough even though the trip is for 16 days, he will have to stop taking photos of his feet! The van driver, a Mexican called Ludvic, no honest, is not only a mad driver but listens to TERRIBLE music, if Mac´s iPod fails there could be blood shed... Leaving Xmel the group were held up by a real bad accident and the local ambulance was over 80kms away with an average speed through the mountain passes of 50-60 kmh, not good for the injured. To pass the time Bri played cards with some of the locals on the bonet of their truck using the Spanish deck Mable had bought. With his now near perfect German Bri impressed them in the game they had just taught him and promplty lost. Moving onto poker Bri played them for their car and girlfriend AND won. He gave them the chance to win them back though. Much amusement for all concerned including Sam our tour guide who was very selective on what she translated into Spanish to them for Bri. The road through the mountains was shocking and according to Sam at least one person on every group she has taken has hurled up during the ride.... we are obviosly made of tougher stuff munching our way through double strength chilli crisps, tortillas with cheese dips and bananas throughout, she was mightily suprised. They arrived late evening and headed into town for a much deserved drink and dinner in the lovely town of San Christobel, Mac is looking very much to exploring it. Yep, San Cristobal is fab, colours that you could only get away with here in South America. The local villages are very interresting, shame that ...
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1. Stone carvings on temples
2. Skull carving
3. Part of the Pelenque site
4. Carving of a nobel
5. Still lots under cover in the jungle
6. Mac doing a Mayan dance ritual
7. View from the top of a temple
8. Behind the waterfall
9. Misol-Ha waterfall
10. Agua Azul
11. Catrin and Mateus
12. Red ginger plant flower
13. Oh another red flower
14. Ugly looking fruit
15. Dragon fly on red flower
16. Two lovely flowers!
17. Bri loosing big time
18. San cristobal side street
19. Dulux colour chart
20. They like bright colours here
21. San Cristobal town hall
22. Ex Catholic church, now Mayan
23. A bracelet terrorist
24. Locals market
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