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[Carotio]

Well, I'm about to make a long journey across the big pond, the Atlantic, and go on a discovery quest to the deserts and jungles of Mexico, for about a months time, starting June 28th ending July 30th.
I plan to go watch maybe a Tequila factory and some pyramid ruins of the Azteques and/or the Mayas.
I plan to upload a few photos here now and then, whenever I can get some internet access which is doubtfull, but you never know... 

Stay tuned...

[SeaWolf U-57]

Have a great time and Yes 
No pic's it did'nt happen 

[Carotio]

4 photos from sunny Mexico...
of course, it's just my natural luck that when I arrive in Mexico the rain season has started and a hurricane in the Mexican gulf has sent even more water up into the atmosphere so that even more rain falls down...
So a photo of me in front of the cathedral of Morelia in Southern Mexico, notice the heavy clouds in the background. Silence before the storm...
Then lots of rain kept falling more or less without interruption for the rest of the day...
However, we had some decent sunshine too two days later...

[SeaWolf U-57]

Now that’s what I call rain not the silly little showers that hardly wets the ground
Looks like we will be facing hose pipe bans here soon.
Please keep the pictures coming they are great and worth a thousand words.
Have a great time   

[Carotio]

I forgot to post the two air photos from the flight. Does anyone recognize the harbour? 
One morning with tacos for breakfast. With chili of course. Mexicans eat chili morning, midday and evening... 
And a visit to one of the areas with hotsprings and steam coming out of the mountain. We went swimming in one of them, though not those on this photo. But I'm not showing you that one, too private hehe...

[Carotio]

I have just experienced a stomach infection and tried to be hospitalized here. Not a very funny experience, I can tell you that much. I had diarrea all sunday and in the afternoon, I had to be hospitalized, cause I was shakening from cold and breathing very heavily plus I had a fever of 39 deg. C. Most fortunate that we were at the house of my friend, whose mother is a doctor and could tell I had to go now. So with drops in my arm, some serum of some sort and antibiotics, I have survived. The rest of the month, I'll probably not have internet access at all. I won't bring my laptop for that part of the journey, so I don't hope I'll experience more of that kind....

[Carotio]

I have arrived in Oaxaca state, the weather in this area is much better than in Michoacan state and that of Mexico City where I was two days ago.
In the meantime since my last post, I was hospitalized with a stomach infection. I can go into further detail later. The main issue is that I'm fine again. At least for the moment. 
I was at a mountain top today to see the lost city of Monte Albán. Very impressive, made lots of good photos, will have to wait though, in int. cafe now...

[SeaWolf U-57]

That sounds great cant wait to see the pictures ....  glad your better now 

[Carotio]

I have not been able to log in here for some time. Strange though that I managed to do it in the ubi forums... 

Anyway, I'm still fine. Made a trip on a river through a canyon yesterday. Very nice indeed. If any of you ever get to the Chiapas region in Mexico, you should search for Canyon Sumidero. Try on google allready. It's definitely worth the trip. Will post some photos when I get back home.
Today, it's just a Maya museum and some street walking, I guess. Tomorrow, a waterfall and the ruins of Palenque is the plan. Anyway, the tickets are just bought.

[Carotio]

The last part of the trip, I had difficulties to log in here, so I made a few reports on the ubi forum thread only, where I did manage to log in.

Now I'm back in Denmark, where I'm resting a bit at my parents home before going home to myself. I don't know yet, when I'll start posting some photos, but some will show up sooner or later.

To be continued...

[Carotio]

Okay, just for making it more easy for me, I'm going to restart with the photos. I'm editing some photos from day to day, and I'm not sure, I'm going to show you photos every day. Far from it. That way, it will give you some time to digest those I post.

So beginning by the beginning:

So everybody recognize KIEL by now, now don't you?   :wink2:



The area just north of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, to give you an impression of the area.


Cathedral of Morelia


The rain has started...


Rain water in the streets...


Benito Juaréz, the first indigenous president of Mexico, normally considered as one of the good guys historically.


More rain...


Cathedral seen with sunshine


In the zoo...


Chili in tacos for breakfast


A steam lake. Normally for some swimming but not at that time, too polluted.


Natural steam bath


The swimming pool with natural warm water, very nice. Los Azufres near Ciudad Hidalgo in Michoacán.


More steam from the mountains


Another natural steam water bath


Me in 40 deg. C hot water. I did go down to my neck, but you had to do it slowly...


One of MANY MANY small markets.


Where I bought this poncho


The library of Morelia


Inside the library


A rock concert right next to another important church


Anyone recognize these 2 characters?   :wink2:


Mona Lisa wearing indigenous clothes


Some local indigenous clothes


Area with paragliders, but none that day, too windy...


A nice waterfall close to Morelia



A market of fruit, meat and other kinds of food




Broken bridge caused by lots of rain water in the river


Walking up to a cave


Inside the cave, there are remnants of fossils


During we were in the cave, I could feel something in my stomach, very uncomfortable. It was a starting diarrea. Later it developped into fever too. I had got a stomach infection caused by a meal in an indigenous village, where I had eaten some turkey, rice and mole (a sauce), where lots of flies were flying around. That just made me so sick, so the day after, during the walk in the cave, I got diarrea and later in the afternoon, I had 39 deg C of fever, so the mother of my friend, who was a doctor, put me to hospital.

[SeaWolf U-57]

Those are some great pictures glad to see you made it back in one piece 

[Carotio]

Okay, two more pictures from Morelia. The cathedral by night.



Arrived in Mexico City, we took a look at the cathedral there.
Outside


Inside


And at the past destroyed Aztec temple below


countdown to the national day of September 16th, the 200 year of the start of independance from Spain and 100 year for the revolution


model of Tenochtitlan plus close-up



archeologic site


me


blue house


German architechture


museum of beautiful art, I decided only to show the outside, cause some of my photos of the paintings from inside were images of halfnaked women, and we all know where that brought me last time...


Suburban parts of MC, it's just so huge, this is seen from a bus


Visit to Téotihuacán, one of the first cities in central Mexico if not the first. It's huge and I'll let most of the photos speak for themselves... You can ask if you want. We first had a look at the two pyramids (dedicated to the sun and the moon), then we visited the museum, more or less alone, no other turists went there beside one other couple who arrived when we left, then we went back to eat in a tiny cafe, but when we wanted to go out and see the lower part of the city it started to rain, so we had to wait a while, and when it silenced off, we went out to have a look. Notice you can see a river of rain water. Later the rain came back, and suddenly I did not enjoy it at all, and I wanted to protect my camera too, so we didn't look at all of the lower part.
























































The next 3 photos prove that the people living here invented a kind of . The original people here were not Aztecs, but the Aztecs later moved in and preserved it as a religious site. The sports were part of their religious life.


































Model in MC of central Tenochtitlan


Hostel close to cathedral, quite nice hostel.   


Some evening shots from central MC

[Minnie Mouse]

Brilliant pics. Really nice and shows so much.
Thank you for sharing.

[Carotio]

Okay, hold on, I have uploaded 304 photos, so I doubt, I'm gonna post all of them in one post. But here we go with the first ones...

After MC, we went to Oaxaca city, which is situated in the state of Oaxaca. Makes sence, no?   
Oaxaca is pronounced  [wua-hra-ka]

Party in the street, oh how nice of them to welcome us like that... 

So a big smile from me


A female indigenous rapper, and she was even dressed in local clothing. That is VERY unusual


From the top of Monte Albán, the ruin city on top of a mountain outside of Oaxaca










Where they used to play a sort of . Now get this straight: the winner was sacrificed to the gods. It was actually considered to be an honour to be sacrificed, because they believed that when honourable people left this world, their spirits or souls raised to the heavens where they lived the eternal life, and sportsmen would not only live in the heavens but among the gods themselves. Hard to understand for us.



part of the water system. When the draught arrived in America, and their water supplies ran out, that's why the people left this city and all the other cities in many regions of central America and south-west USA before the arrival of the conquistadores. It wasn't the Spanish who entirely wept out these people. No rain means no water, and no water means no life. They had to abandon these cities.


opposite view on the main square


view towards Oaxaca


map of Monte Albán


next post will be with more photos, but later... I want some comments first