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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Oaxaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico Day 7 & 8- The Unesco World Heritage City of Oaxaca & more ancient pyramids and tombs! Today on our 200th day of travelling (Bl***y H***!!) we headed further east on a 4.5 hour journey to the world heritage city of Oaxaca and again the transport just got better - this beast was...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Oaxaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico Well a big hello to you all from Oaxaca in Mexico, this is Clare reporting! Oaxaca sounds like - Ohaca! I was getting confused too.. therefore Mexico sounds like Mehico! Firstly, I must tell all that I am now a very proud Aunty to a sweet little girl named Mia Hayley! Congratulations to Katrina and...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Friday night we went to see mexican wrestling at Arena Mexico this was crazy we had near ringside seats and saw 6 midgets fighting to start with and it ended with the much anticipated Dr Wagner v Perro Aguayo we were gutted when Dr Wagner lost and so were 15000 mexicans who started launching beer at the ring so we joined inSaturday through the day we went into Condesa and Coyoacan some nice
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A new stop on the Mexican crafts trail, the arty Michoacán region is attracting more tourists and collectors with its colorful ceramics and glittering copper works.
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Oaxaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico We left sleepy Puerto Escondido after having had a wonderful day there, what a cool little town! Jess had told me that the road to Oaxaca would be windy and we would probably have to go quite slow, which was fine by me... I thought....However the road was extremely windy and I ended up feeling a bit "car...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A new stop on the Mexican crafts trail, the region is attracting more tourists and collectors with its colorful ceramics and glittering copper works.
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Blabbeando (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Oh fun. So you are a member of a folk dance troop from a coastal Mexican region and you're invited to perform for the editorial team of a local Oaxaca newspaper. You begin with a little verse about your hometown of Pinotepa and thank the journalists for the invite. The men wear white shirts and pants and cream-colored straw hats. The women wear long colorful skirts and their long hair tied in...
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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
(Dissident teachers at the start of the Alternative Guelaguetza,in Oaxaca. Notimex photo by Hugo Alberto Velasco, printed in The News) It’s that time again. The annual running of the protesters in Oaxaca always cumulates in the now traditional duelling traditional Guelaguetzas. What had been since the 17th century a religious fiesta and market was always [...]
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Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
We'd like to offer congratulations to Gerhard Buttner, the winner of Planeta.com's eighth annual Colibri Ecotourism Award. South African geographer Buttner won the honor for his superb work training guides and artisans in Mexico's Yucatan and Oaxaca. Over the past...
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ZAPAGRINGO (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The zapagringo blog's 2nd birthday finds us back in zapatista territory. It's been 2.5 years since I was in Mexico covering the Other Campaign in Oaxaca for The Narco News Bulletin . Today I am back with my partner who works with the Palestine Education Project and we are screening Slingshot Hip Hop here in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas today. This is one small step in a longer process...
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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Does this sound believable? The four-man crew of a submarine carrying cocaine seized earlier this week was transferred to a Mexico City jail on Thursday, authorities said. The submarine - which according to media reports was homemade - had been escorted to the Oaxaca shoreline on Wednesday by the Navy, after being stopped for navigating illegally. The greentopped, [...]
