As I’m writing this, we sit under a palapa (roof made of palm tree leaves) to protect the computers from the tropical downpour in the jungle surrounding the Mayan ruins of Palenque in Chiapas. The howler monkeys seem to have taken refuge somewhere as well, we can’t hear their Jurassic Park – style utterings any more. Typically for the Snailtrails team, we didn’t take the straight route from Oaxaca, where we spend a week-end witnessing the “Dia de los Muertos”…
The days when the dead return… We spend the weekend of November 1 and 2 in the lovely city of Oaxaca (Oaxaca) where we take part in the celebration of the most important and at the same time most macabre ‘fiesta’ in Mexico: the ‘Days of the Death’ (Dias de los Muertos)… According to an old Indian legend the death is not the end of human life – but transfers the spirit to a parallel world. From there the deceased…
Mexico keeps surprising us, and its capital was no exception. It was not without a certain amount of apprehension that we took a bus into one of the largest cities in the world, having been warned of traffic, crime, pollution and influenza… Mexico city probably has all of these, air pollution being the most visible. Despite these characteristics, which are shared by many large metropolitan areas, Mexico is a very livable and diverse city with many decentralized neighborhoods, residential areas,…
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