Today, we went on a day tour of the surrounding areas near Oaxaca. This old tree The first stop was the Tule Tree, a famous old Montezuma Cypress that’s considered to be one of the biggest-trunked trees in Mexico. The…
Feliz Navidad from Oaxaca
I am completely in love with Oaxaca! Can I move here? This charming colonial city (pronounced wa-HAH-ka), with its Zapotec influence, is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the central southern part of Mexico. It has a great vibe all…
Cathedrals, crafts and chocolate
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Welcome to the colonial city of Puebla, Mexico’s fourth largest city and the capital of the state by the same name. We arrived here late afternoon yesterday, after a short van ride from…
Let’s climb some pyramids
So as you may have guessed from the title of this blog post, I climbed some ancient Teotihuacan pyramids today. Two of ’em, to be exact. The big one is dedicated to the sun, and the smaller one to the…
Too much to see, too little time
Mission: Impossible How do you properly see a big, sprawling metropolis like Mexico City in one day? Answer: You don’t even try. Instead, you make up your mind to just take it easy, walk around, soak things in, and not…
Welcome to Mexico City
Welcome to Mexico! My flight arrived about an hour late, after sitting at the gate in Montreal for an hour prior to takeoff due to “air traffic delays” at the destination. In other words, they could’ve kept the original flight…
¡Vámonos!
Murphy’s Law of Vacations Why is it that all the work arrives right before vacation time? I don’t know, but it never fails: I book a vacation for a time when I think things will be quiet, basically ensuring that…
Not an all-inclusive beach holiday
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I’ve never been to Mexico. It seems like, along with Cuba or the Dominican Republic (two other places I have never been), Mexico is the default holiday destination for sun-seeking North Americans looking to…