Travel
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Week 6 in Oaxaca
Couchsurfing is a great place to meet people from all walks of life. Since I met a peddler selling watches in a big market last week, I met a missionary again this week. A native of Oaxaca, he has been a missionary for four years in an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, where he met his current girlfriend. his girlfriend...
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Week 5 in Oaxaca
On Monday morning, I went to the local vegetable market Abastos to buy vegetables. By the way, I went to the memela shop on Netflix again to buy their homemade spicy sauce salsa morita. When I arrived, there were already many customers. I asked them if they sold hot sauce, but they were so busy that they ignored me. so sit...
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Week 4 in Oaxaca
I recently went to a language partner exchange meeting, and most of the people who went were native English speakers. The guy sitting next to me was an American guy. After hearing that I was Chinese, he began to speak fluent Chinese to me. He is from Tennessee, and my parents and I are still alumni of universities in the United States. He said that he only took Chinese classes for one semester when he was in college, and then he was very impressed with Chinese...
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Oaxaca Week 3 Daily
After meeting the girl from Tianjin on Saturday, she took me and her Spanish teacher to a nearby town, Tlacolula, on Sunday to watch their Sunday market, which is said to be the largest market in central Oaxaca. We gathered at the bus station at about 9:30 in the morning. We arrived on time and waited for her teacher for a long time. Her teacher is another...
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Oaxaca second week routine
I went to the Great Botanical Garden in Oaxaca on Monday, and I had to go with a tour guide when I went in. There was a limit of 25 people per tour guide. There are all kinds of tall cacti in the botanical garden, just like in the desert. In the afternoon, I went on a city walking tour. The other tourists in the group basically arrived here on the first or second day. Although I have been to the places that the guide took us to, but...
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First week in Oaxaca
It has been a long time since I used the Sofa guest software to find a place to stay, because it is more convenient to have a separate room for online office work. But because of the Day of the Dead, tourists from all over the world gather here, hotels are full, and even youth hostels are very expensive. So in order to save money, I found a sofa owner before I came. I plan to stay for a few days, and then find a long-term rental place after the celebration of the Day of the Dead...
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Day of the Dead Día de Muertos
It took a 12-hour overnight bus ride from San Cristóbal to the long-awaited city of Oaxaca, just in time for Día de Muertos, the annual Mexican festival of the dead, which falls on November 1 and 2. Day, but a few days in advance is already particularly festive…
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San Cristóbal Week 9 Daily
This is the last week in San Cristóbal. I cleaned out the ingredients in the refrigerator. In order to use up the leftover dark soy sauce and local liquor, I made sweet and sour pork ribs and zucchini scrambled eggs for the owner of the restaurant at the door, although they were also delicious. , but they prefer to eat the braised pork last time. They bought takeaway fried chicken for lunch the next day. …
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San Cristóbal Week 8 Daily
This Tuesday, the owner of the restaurant at the door asked me to make tamales together. I added flour to the ones I bought last time, but she said that traditional tamales do not add flour, only corn kernels. She always made tamales with her mother as a child. She taught me to head the corn, peel it, cut the corn beans, add butter, condensed milk (or sugar), cinnamon...
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San Cristóbal Week 7 Daily
Several days in the city center this week celebrate the international festival of Cervantino, a cultural festival that originated in the city of Guanajuato. These few days I go to the city center every night for a walk. There are guitar performances, band performances, flamenco dance performances, singing performances and stage plays, which are very lively. week…
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