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Showing posts with label puebla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puebla. Show all posts
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Primera Vacacion! (c/o Courtney)
Posted by iLP on 12:49 PM
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| Just a giant mural on the wall. These were everywhere. |
This weekend was our first vacation! As a starter we just did a little weekend trip to Puebla (the capital city of the state of Puebla, which is the one I live in) and it was soooo fun! We left on Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m., spent Saturday and Sunday in Puebla, and then came back around 8 p.m. last night. It's only two hours away from Tehuacan by bus so we had plenty of time in the city.
Upon getting there, the first thing we did was look around at some little stands and stuff. Actually, that's a lie. The first thing we did was find a bathroom in a movie theater because we didn't realize there was one on the bus until we were getting off. Anyway, so we went to this movie theater and they charged us five pesos to use the bathroom! Well they called it a donation because supposedly it went to curing cancer but it felt like a charge. At least until I had relieved my bladder, and then I felt all right about it :)
Anyway, so first we looked around!
This was just one of the streets in Puebla covered in vendors. Here in Mexico, you see about a billion of these everywhere you go.
Upon getting there, the first thing we did was look around at some little stands and stuff. Actually, that's a lie. The first thing we did was find a bathroom in a movie theater because we didn't realize there was one on the bus until we were getting off. Anyway, so we went to this movie theater and they charged us five pesos to use the bathroom! Well they called it a donation because supposedly it went to curing cancer but it felt like a charge. At least until I had relieved my bladder, and then I felt all right about it :)
Anyway, so first we looked around!
This was just one of the streets in Puebla covered in vendors. Here in Mexico, you see about a billion of these everywhere you go.
We took a tour of the city! It was BEAUTIFUL. Plus we got to sit on the back of this tour bus thing and listen to this guy tell us all about the history of the sites in Spanish (because it cost half as much as the English tour). It was pretty fun.
The next morning, we got up and went to Cholula! Which is some ruins just outside of Puebla.
These are them!
Apparently this particular city was abandoned at some point and the pyramids got all covered up. Later a cathedral was built on top of what seemed a nice hill but was really a pyramid! So they're excavating a lot of it, but they can't really dig under the cathedral. So just imagine a big pyramid under that giant mound of dirt. It was way cool though. I love to imagine all the people walking around just like us in their city!
So I tried about fifteen times to get a picture that did the view justice, but I just couldn't get it! It was beautiful, though, and you could see so many cathedrals! I swear there are more cathedrals in Puebla than Mormon churches in Utah Valley :)
After seeing the ruins and the cathedral we went back down and did some shopping at all of the vendors. They were constantly yelling, "Gueritas, gueritas, que quieren comprar?!" (White girls, white girls, what do you want to buy!) Ummmm, nada, gracias! Haha. But I did buy a popsicle and... this:
Looks like a popsicle too, right? Wrong! It's a jicaleta, or jicama on a stick. What is jicama, you ask? Well I'm not sure, but we eat it all the time. It sort of has the texture of a potato, but it tastes like a snap pea. And I really like it! So here's a bit piece of it covered in some chamoy and chile. Yummmmmm.
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| One of the many, many cathedrals in Puebla. |
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| Inside the cathedral. It was huge and GORGEOUS. |
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| Tour bus! |
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| Mexican flag at the site of a big battle against the French... Which is now celebrated on Cinco de Mayo! |
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| Here died hundreds of patriots on May 5, 1862 defending the (something) of no intervention. Yup. |
These are them!
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| Cholula! |
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| The cathedral on top. |
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| Inside. It was Sunday so they were having mass! |
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| The view. Absolutely breathtaking. And me. Looking sunburned. |
After seeing the ruins and the cathedral we went back down and did some shopping at all of the vendors. They were constantly yelling, "Gueritas, gueritas, que quieren comprar?!" (White girls, white girls, what do you want to buy!) Ummmm, nada, gracias! Haha. But I did buy a popsicle and... this:
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Puebla Day Trip a la Jason
Posted by Kate on 7:18 PM
This weekend we decided to head up to the capital, Puebla, to see some ruins, cathedrals, and of course do some shopping (that´s what happens when it is 14 girls and 1 guy).
We rented out a tour bus and so it made it really nice because we had our own personal chauffeurs for the entire day. They were way cool and helped us get hooked up with all the goods throughout the day including discounts at the sites, tips on where to go, and snacks.
Our first stop was in the old pagan center of Cholula which is a suburb of Puebla and where one of the world´s largest pyramids is located. Unfortunately, it was covered with dirt before the Spanish came and conquered the city and then the Spanish built a large cathedral on top. Today, the pyramid looks mostly like a large hill but you are able to walk through the tunnels of the pyramid and see some of the ruins that they have excavated.
After going to Cholula, we headed downtown into Puebla where we saw the cathedral that is on the 500 peso as well as a museum with some really cool artifacts of the pre-Hispanic civilizations. After that we did some shopping at a famous art street in town and had fun watching the different street performers at the city center.
