If there is something I like about Mexico is the food, especially tacos. They are of different kinds and all kinds of ingredients and now I can say that I find extraordinary. I just enjoy 5 taquitos assortment that sell at a taco house near here. I put the head of beef, pork, tongue and other meats do not even know. With its splash of lemon, plenty of chopped onion, cilantro and a touch of spicy green chile sauce ... mmmhhh is something delicious. My friend says that there are also weak udder and tripe tacos but those I have not tried yet. I'm becoming a hardened cue rack! Yes, always accompanied by a Corona quite dead ...
This week I went with some friends Mexican Chiapas and Oaxaca. They have a business here in Catemaco and had to buy handicrafts and clothes to sell to "shop of treasures." As I still did not know San Cristobal de las Casas and it was something I decided I really wanted to accompany them and share gasoline costs. The first stop, apart from a taco for breakfast, we did in Chiapa de Corzo. By one of those coincidences of life right there I met some English friends, Charles and Franch-boat waiting for a guided tour through the canyon of the sump. After waiting a while to fill the Community boat started the adventure.
Gully Canyon is a deep hole located 5 km from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state capital. This canyon is a cliff whose height goes a little beyond the 1000 m water level and stands on the banks of the Grijalva River, which has a depth of more than 300 m. Canyon travel requires the sense of observation, since the interest lies not only in the geological formation, but also the fauna, flora and archeology, as it is a series of graves from its original opening, the Water has eroded over time. It is estimated that their formation began 12 million years ago .
is quite impressive walk among those so huge vertical cliffs that rise on both sides of river. It gave me the feeling of being in a western movie and at any time the Indians were to appear with their horses High in the mountains with their feathers and pointed arches like outsiders invading their sacred territory. It seems magical to visit places like this where you manage to transport you in time while you breathe the great power of our mother earth.
We were fortunate to have a sunny day so we could see up to a dozen crocodiles warm on the shore. Later, between the trees and thick vegetation also found some specimens of the spider monkey, pity they are no longer as abundant as some years ago and only can be observed on protected lands or in the jungle. The vultures, huge birds with black feathers (vultures black), waiting for their ration of food too close to the shore. Also, the area is the habitat of animals such as badgers, raccoons, herons, snakes, turtles, fish, ducks and hundreds of species of terrestrial and aquatic environments.
In the afternoon, before sunset, we left San Cristobal de las Casas. This "Magic Town" was the capital of the province of Chiapas since the colonial period until the beginning of the period known as the Diaz regime, the powers were then transferred to Tuxtla Gutierrez. City considered cultural capital of Chiapas state, where different cultural and artistic expressions. This city Cosmopolitan is the main tourist area of \u200b\u200bChiapas.
The colorful handicraft markets may come to be drunken so you have to hold on to not leave your pocket literally plucked. After enjoying some shopping and learn the art of haggling we went to dinner at "the inn taco, mmhhh ... delicious tacos al pastor. After a couple of good tequilas I went to rest with my English friends to a humble hotel near downtown.
The next day, after a long day of shopping we left Oaxaca, Oaxaca State capital, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, owes its fame to the beauty and harmony of its architecture, its rich cultural traditions, the wide variety of its typical foods and its soft temperate climate, spring all year round. Has peaks of over three thousand feet high, caverns among the deepest in the world, virgin beaches, hidden jungles, and luminous valleys that house populations where they merge, as in a crucible, cultures of all peoples who have passed through his skin.
is a beauty travel hours by road along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where on the Pacific to the Atlantic. The air currents blowing so hard that you may find that closed risk-highway trucks that turn around and you should deviate from the free. The good side is to see how the wind caress the high mountains filled with low vegetation so that change color as velvet, ranging from yellow ocher to going for coffee. At the time the light changes and the end of the day takes the vast landscape of orange and red tones.
Oaxaca finally arrived around 11 pm with the same cold that we had left in Chiapas. But before looking for accommodation, what did we do? We went together to the market to eat some wonderful pork tacos head in one of those stalls that are on the streets until late. They were real good and so spicy that I took the cold at once!
morning I visited the city center, market and ceramic posts alebrijes. The market is so large that it is divided into sections, each with its smells and colors. Surprised by fruit stands and a variety of products offered there, I wanted to take a picture of the typical selling the famous Oaxacan chapolines but wanted to charge me 100 pesos for such audacity to what I gave up after expose my thinking that should be a very famous woman to have such a cache ...
Tired by the intensity of the trip after to enjoy a good toppings (great cake toast with beans and meat quesito several) and a pair of heels, grabbed back the car for the journey back to Catemaco ...
To be continued ...
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