Continuing on the Oaxaca theme, here are a couple of shots from the town of Mitla, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Here, as was commonly the case, the site was largely razed by Spanish colonizers. The same stones were used to construct the catholic church.
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In late 2012 I found myself in a taxi in Mexico City with a fifty-something year old driver. Our conversation followed a familiar pattern. He asked me how long I had been in Mexico and which parts of the country I had visited. I told him of my travels and he replied that while that […]
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Cafe Tacuba is a Mexican band and this is their homage to the Mexico City Metro. In case you didn’t know, the food and goods referenced in the song highlight the ubiquity of ‘los vagoneros’ – the roaming vendors who turn the metro into a mobile marketplace. The version I’ve embedded below is from their 1995 […]
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This is the first in a series of brief travel bites. I’ll aim to add one from every Latin American country I’ve visited. Isla de Ometepe rises majestically from Central America’s largest lake in Central America’s largest country-Nicaragua. Ometepe is reached by ferry which leaves port six kilometres from the township of Rivas. The voyage […]
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Latin America – no, although the demographics are rapidly changing. America – not according to Latin Americans. Please do not appropriate what belongs to all. The United States. The vast land to the north is a great lure for many. I always thought and hoped that I would cross over by land into Texas, […]
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I have a semi-completed article/story on Cuba that I hope to publish here sometime. In the meantime here are some more wise words from the mouth of Fidel Castro.. THE PARTY IS NOT PRIVILEGE, IT IS SACRIFICE
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Tracking in one of the little mini-vans that ply the very few routes that chicken buses don’t -or do- but supplement or complement them anyway, I headed further and deeper into the Guatemalan highlands to the Ixil Triangle – all the way to Chajul where the folk speak their traditional Mayan tongue, Ixil, and I had myself […]
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The street art across Mexico City adds a great deal of colour and beauty to the streets of the hyper-metropolis. This image is from a street not far from Plaza Garibaldi in the downtown area – the home of Mexico City’s mariachi musicians. I’ve got hundreds of street art shots from Mexico City and I […]
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The short story ‘Highland Hallucinations‘ that I published on this site started in the beautiful colonial city of Cuenca, Ecuador. I suggested that the church dominated skyline could hold its own against Saint Petersburg in Russia. This photograph is my supporting evidence.
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The following short story recounts an experience with the hallucinogenic flower commonly known as Angel’s trumpet and sometimes Devil’s trumpet. Whether the flowers ingested were actually Brugmansia or Datura I am unsure. The flowers are common throughout much of the Americas. While I don’t regret the experience it is not one that I would recommend and perhaps […]
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