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Baluarte Bridge – North Mexico’s Newest Site
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 6 January 2012
Usually travellers stick to the south of Mexico, where there is lush jungle, ruined temples and tourist attractions galore. Up north (by which I mean anywhere north of about halfway up) there are a few fabulous areas that shouldn’t be missed, including the fantastic Copper Canyon, where you can cycle and hike and generally admire [...]
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Back to Mexico City!!
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 6 January 2012
This past year has been a struggle for me & John to readjust from the “every other weekend = a 3-day+ vacation to a beach, jungle, colonial town or archaeological site” schedule that we got accustomed to living in Mexico City. (Yes, I can almost feel your waves of sympathy washing over me.) [...]
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Monte Alban: Closer to the Gods
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 4 January 2012
Atop the Zapotec world and about 15 minutes from the historic center of Oaxaca is the great Meso-american archeological site of Monte Alban, named by the Spaniards after siting the mountaintop covered with the blooms of the white morning-glory tree … Continue reading →
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Travel Photo of the Day – Foggy Morning Mountains in Chiapas, Mexico
Blog: Two Backpackers - 4 January 2012
Jonathan is a regular travel photo contributor for 2Backpackers.com. For more information or to sign up for his newsletter visit LifePart2.com. In late December I had the privilege to spend the night with a charming indigenous family in the tiny village of Nichnamtic; high in the mountains of Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. This family [...]
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Photo Diaries: Blending Photography and Prose
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 3 January 2012
What is photojournalism? Our workshop instructor June Finfer, Chicago documentary filmmaker/photographer/playwright explains it this way: It is making a picture, capturing the connection, creating something out of what you are feeling as you go beyond the surface of what you … Continue reading →
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Portraits of Las Cuevitas: Caves of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 2 January 2012
After an incredible meal of sopa de verduras (vegetable soup) seasoned with hierba santa (a green leaf with a faint scent of licorice), mole negro (black spicy chocolate sauce) with chicken, traditional tamales stuffed with chicken and mole amarillo (red-orange … Continue reading →
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Temples of the Yucutan
Blog: See Simi Travel Blog - 2 January 2012
Just yesterday we ushered in the first day of the last year of the world. Um, according to the Mayans, I mean. Although I have outgrown fears of apocalyptic prophesies, what I never seem to get enough of is my love for ancient buildings. Twice have I been to Mexico, and twice have I taken a day away from the beautiful beaches that line the Caribbean Sea to visit the temples of the Mayans: Tulum and Chichen Itza.
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Oaxaca Weaver-Musician Keeps the Traditions
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 1 January 2012
Secundino Bazan Mendoza began weaving at age 13, his daughter Ester Bazan Contreras recalls. It could have been earlier, but Ester is certain he learned from his uncle who took him in at age 6 when his mother died. Secundino … Continue reading →
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Happy New Year 2011 from Oaxaca: Prospero Ano Nuevo
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 31 December 2011
This is a perfect, balmy day, clear with a light breeze, cool in the shadows, warm in the sun.
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A Trip Down Memory Lane of New Year’s Past
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 December 2011
Wow, can you believe it's nearly 2012? This has been a short Christmas season, it seems shorter than usual with Christmas and New Years falling on a Sunday. It seems like the holidays just got started and they are already coming to and end
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Want to Live in Mexico? Advice from a Wisecracker!
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 30 December 2011
Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak is a zany memoir by Mark Saunders (Fuze Publishing, LLC, McLean, VA, ISBN 978-0-9841412-8-9), who, with his wife Arlene Krasner, moved to San Miguel de Allende (SMA) shortly after falling in love with the place. … Continue reading →
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Soft Landing: Oaxaca, Mexico
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 29 December 2011
The Continental flight from RDU to IAH to OAX was easy, fast, painless. The plane left the gate in Raleigh-Durham at 2:30 p.m.(EDT) and arrived in Oaxaca at 8:30 p.m. (CDT).
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Cultural Continuity in Oaxaca: Survival Despite Globalization
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 28 December 2011
http://wp.me/pRHvb-Ir This post from CasitaColibri just landed in my inbox as I wait in the RDU airport to begin my “one-way” journey to Oaxaca today.
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Celebrating New Year’s Eve in DF
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 26 December 2011
We found celebrating the Año Nuevo in Mexico City to be a bit different than our prior U.S.-based New Year’s Eve festivities. In the U.S., pressure always feels high among the 20/30-something crowd to have THE MOST AMAZING NIGHT OUT of your life. This usually involves spending 2x what you would normally spend on dinner [...]
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Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (Mas o Menos)
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 25 December 2011
Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (choose your own priority order): Speak the language. Learn to speak the language. Try to learn to speak the language. Keep trying. Hire a tutor. Take a class.
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Feliz Navidad: Christmas in Oaxaca
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 24 December 2011
The winter solstice is upon us and there is a sliver of moon hanging in the sky like an oyster shell, illuminated and alluring.
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Renewing Intimate Connection: A Retreat for Couples in Oaxaca, Mexico
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 23 December 2011
Thursday, February 23 to Wednesday, February 29, 2012. A couples retreat led by Stephen Hawthorne, MSW, LCSW.
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Three Turtles Less
Blog: The Mexile - 20 December 2011
I’ve just passed the ten month mark since my departure from Mexico. I’m hoping, even with a worst case scenario, that I’m beyond the half way point. There’s less time to go till my return to Mexico since my leaving … Continue reading →
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The Hollywood Gang Hideaway
Blog: Sophie's World - 20 December 2011
On a dramatic cliff in the hills above Acapulco, there’s a hotel. A deliciously kitsch, bright pink hotel. Now, we only stopped for the spectacular ocean views, and for drinks on a hot day, so this will not be a proper hotel review. I know nothing about the rooms. I hear they’re fairly basic, but [...]The Hollywood Gang Hideaway is a post from Sophie's World
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Interlude: Santa Cruz, California
Blog: Oaxaca Cultural Navigator - 20 December 2011
Work as I have known it, with routine and some semblance of structure and predictability, has ended.
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Our First Christmas Posada in Mexico City
Blog: Midwesterner in Mexico - 19 December 2011
One of the many Mexican Christmas traditions I’m missing while back in the US this year is the posada. The season of posadas began on Friday, December 16th– nine days before Christmas. When we lived in Mexico City, this marked both a time of holiday joy & grinchy anger, because of the sharp uptick in [...]
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Photo Essay: Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 18 December 2011
Like a plant photography nerd rebel, I snuck into a botanical garden. Except at the time, I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to be there. When I walked up to the entrance, there were two security guards chatting away. I made brief eye contact with them and they didn’t say anything so I kept [...]
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Oaxaca Hot Chocolate and Decision Making at Lidia’s Eatery
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 15 December 2011
One morning in Oaxaca, I wake up with an onward bus ticket on my mind. I am supposed to leave the following day. I head out of the hostel earlier than normal and make my first stop at a bank. The ATM line is long and moving at a sloth’s pace. I share sighs and [...]
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Puerto Vallarta Dreams – Photos From Paradise
Blog: Landlopers - 12 December 2011
A few weeks ago I was approached by the fine folks over at AMResorts to partner together on a pretty exciting initiative. AMResorts is the provider of sales, marketing and brand management services to five brands of exclusive resort properties in Mexico and the Dominican...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Photo Essay: The Abandoned Monastery of Cuilapan
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 11 December 2011
Not far from Oaxaca city, in the town of Cuilapan de Guerrero, is a monastery that bears many similarities to the often lively church and monastery of Santo Domingo. But Cuilapan’s Convento de Santiago Apóstol took on very different fate. Before it was finished being built, it was abandoned. While Cuilapan is now a quiet [...]
