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December 8, 2023 – Orizaba, Mexico
There is a cable car nearby that runs to the top of a hill, Cerro del Borrego. The cable car ascends to the top gaining 760 meters vertically. It only has three small cars going up and three going down. The sky was almost cloudless so it was a good day to take it and…
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December 7, 2023 – Orizaba, Mexico
Breakfast time. Desayuno here. Enchiladas in green salsa, and a bowl of sliced onions, carrots, tiny potatoes, cauliflower, thyme. Jello also. The waitress told me what the bowl is called and I forgot it before I could write it down. The reason for getting the bowl and the jello is because the waitress asked me…
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December 6, 2023 – Mexico City to Orizaba
Took a bus from Mexico City to Orizaba. The ride took five and a half hours. Supposed to take four and a half but the highway through Puebla was very congested. Orizaba is in the damp mountains of Eastern Mexico at about 4074 feet elevation with about 110,000 people. Looks like a nice place to…
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December 5, 2023 – Mexico City
Breakfast for the foodies: cibeles. See blurry photo of menu for ingredients. Came with a small, almost biscuit size piece of bread which was good for cleaning up all the salsa. Visited the Museo Mural Diego Rivera this morning. The place has a 15×47 foot mural the great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, painted in 1947.…
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December 4, 2023 – Mexico City
Late start this morning. Breakfast was Huevos Rancheros at a little restaurant nearby. It was fried eggs, chorizo sausage and salsa over two corn tortillas. Spicy and tasty. Have a good day. Templo Mayor is the remains of the main Aztec temple of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec city Cortez came upon in 1519 and conquered in…
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December 3, 2023 – Mexico City
Visited the National Museum of Anthropology today. Spent four and a half hours and saw only half of it. It covered all of the native civilizations in Mexico: Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Toltec and more I’d never heard of. Admission was $90 pesos which is about $5.70 US. Took so many photos that my phone’s battery…
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December 2, 2023 – Huntsville to Mexico City
Flew to Mexico City today arriving around 7 PM. Great to be here again. Staying in an Airbnb in the Roma area. Nice little apartment with a view and in a neighborhood on the upscale side in Central Mexico City. Here for four nights, spending days seeing a few things. Highest on the list is…
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September 21, 2023 – Samarkand to Yurt Camp near Ayudar Lake, Uzbekistan
On a tour of Central Asia which started September 5. So, this blog is behind. I’ll backfill to get you caught up but it will take awhile. Bumped along the roads from Samarkand to Ayudar Lake in Northern Uzbekistan. Stopped at a few places but main stop was a big man-made lake in the Kyzylkum…
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September 11, 2023 – Saty, 12K from Lower Kolsay Lake, Kazakhstan
Drove from Karakol, Kyrgyzstan to Saty Village in Kazakhstan. The landscapes in Kazakhstan are vast, like the USA’s West. Before we settled down in a guesthouse, went into Kolsay Lakes National Park. Hiked down to a small lake created by an earthquake around 1870. Trees were partially submerged and the trunks are still visible. The…
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September 10, 2023 – Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan
Walked seven miles on a dirt road into the mountains today. Very scenic. After the walk we went to a hot spring and soothed some aches. The hottest water flowed into a small pool which flowed into a cooler pool and then another and then another. Each pool is cooler. We weren’t allowed in the…
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