February 27, 2011 | 19 Comments

I love traveling in the lowest class of collective transport - the vehicles that start only when full and stop wherever people flag them down. These are usually quite systematic, but for a visitor like me, these seem chaotic, crowded and confusing. Add to that one of my favorite thrills of traveling in a foreign country – the language barrier, the resulting combination of these random factors ...
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February 21, 2011 | 16 Comments

Pastes are semi-circular turnovers made with pastry crust and are very similar to the Indian baked samosa. Pastes come with various fillings - mole verde (green sauce), mole roja (red sauce), pineapple, apple, potatoes and refried beans; my favorite being mole verde and pineapple. Other than that, there is plenty to see in this small, quite un-touristy town close to Mexico city....
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February 16, 2011 | 17 Comments

Mexico city or Ciudad de Mexico is a huge city and I was tempted to spend a whole week checking it out. However I have this thing about big cities - while I like them, I am never keen to explore them fully. That's because I keep thinking that there might be other times in the future I'd visit Mexico city. Thus, I ended up spending more time in towns around Mexico city rather than the city itself....
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February 11, 2011 | 24 Comments

Excursion to the pre-Columbian city of Teotihuacan and climbing the third largest pyramid in the world. The approach to these pyramids of the Sun and the Moon is via a long street that is flanked by a large number of smaller pyramids which the Aztecs believed were tombs of the dead...
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February 2, 2011 | 36 Comments

Without being overly picky about definitions, I made a list of some things that a backpacker traveling in Mexico would typically do. This condensed list is based on my own experiences but lets see how many of these behaviours are transferable to any other trip that you took......
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