Teotihuacán

Yesterday I visited an archeological place where some colorful decoration of the walls remained and we can see them either on them original place or in the museum of the site together with numerous devices and sculptures and useful explanations, even in English.

You can climb the Pyramid of the Sun and enjoy the nice view over the smaller pyramids surrounded by the hilly landscape full of cactuses.

I also visited the Basilica de Guandalipe that is a vast, modern, circle-based building, that can his over 20,000 people.

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Cholula, Popocatépetl and the angels

I arrived to Puebla de los Angeles ie. 'the city of the angels'. I had an exciting conversation with Paty. In Spanish. Since than I have realised that her English is quite good so today we used much less Spanish than English.

Today I visited Cholula, a cozy, sleepy town with several nice churches, library of antique books and a chapel built on the top of a pyramid and thus provides a fine view of the town and the two beautiful fivethousender volcanoes: Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.

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Monte Alban and the grasshoppers

Today we visited an other archeological place called Monte Alban.

After that we were strolling in the local market buying foods and trying things that we (er, me) had not tried before. Eg. fried grasshoppers. That was delicious:) though a bit spicy for me.

I just realised how big and diverse Mexico is. Not only the traditional costumes change almost city by city. Also the fauna differs. Here the landscape rather savanna-like with lots of types of cactuses as opposed to the lush rainforests that dominated before.

Tuc-tucs (a 3-wheeled vehicle with an engine in the front and seats for two passengers behind the driver) appeared as a kind of alternative of the tricycles that carried a big basket on them front wheels that is used for carrying different stuff even peoples.

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Palenque

Real rainforest with real rain. Ruins of Palenque are remained in quite a good shape. Mystic-foggy rainforest surrounded the buildings and make the scene even more spectacular.

The waterfalls of Aqua Azul flow through huge natural dams (mésztufagát) that I have never seen before.

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Chetumal & around

Fresh guanabana juice, eating at the local market, watching the tortilla manufacture in work, visiting a quite quiet archeological place (Oxtancah) with a great guide explaining the building and the trees, tiny cenote in the jungle with even tinier turtle, footprints of 'tigrillas'.

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