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MitlaArticlesDisplaying Results 1 - 15 for mitla![]() Oaxaca, Into the Mixe District of the Sierra Norte Region - the Drive and Some Highlights ... paved road is being cut through the mountain range.
Until this point in time in the trip the vegetation, since the approach to Mitla, has been mixed scrub, cactus, and some crops under cultivation, with agave predominating.
Back on ... Read ![]() Oaxaca To San Cristobal De Las Casas And Palenque, And More: A Driving Tour ... an overnight, assuming you want to visit more than one sight en route. As you leave Oaxaca for the drive towards Mitla along Highway 190, fill up with gas, since there are lengthy stretches of highway without stations after you turn off ... Read ![]() Driving in Oaxaca --- Rules of the Road ... limits, as you arrive from Mexico City, directing you around the city and how to get to the highway to the coast and to the ruin at Mitla. The problem is that the arrow directs you to make a hard left, and if you do, you end up on a one ... Read ![]() Traveling to Oaxaca With Children ... the fortress. It might be blasphemous to even suggest, but thinking of young children in particular, why not save Mitla for another trip. After all, you’re probably going to schlep them to Monte Albán, the granddaddy of the region’s ruins ... Read ![]() Short Essays on Rural Oaxaca Mezcal Production: Part I, Focus on Hilarino Olivera Cruz ... struggle of the rural producer.
Hilarino’s market is not the tourist trade, but rather residents of Oaxaca, Mitla, the nearby Mixe region, and of course his own community. The same as it was for his great-grandparents: “I remember the ... Read ![]() El Tigre: Restaurant in Oaxaca is as Authentic as They Get ... the Coke, Fanta and Corona will keep the beverages as cold as most are accustomed. But save and except for these shortcomings, if you’re heading to Mitla, or out towards Hierve el Agua, a visit to El Tigre is not to be missed.
You’ll ... Read ![]() Huatulco, Mexico: the Drive From Oaxaca, and Determining if It's for You ... at the same time take in some wonderful scenery and a diversity of local culture en route. Just head out towards Mitla, take the well-marked Highway 190 cutoff to the mezcal capital of Matatlan, and continue to the coast, towards Salina ... Read ![]() A Rich Wood Carving Tradition in Oaxaca, Mexico: Spotlight on Jacobo Ángeles ... In our own workshop, our painting depicts designs and representations of our culture … friezes from the ancient ruin at Mitla, symbols representing waves, mountains and fertility, the totems, and other metaphors for our culture, past and ... Read ![]() Oaxacan chef inadvertently sets City of Toronto ablaze, steals limelight from Clinton, Clooney Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. All Pilar Cabrera really wanted was to do a little promotion for Oaxaca, and make a few Canadian dollars during one of the slowest months of the year for tourism. But by the end of Chef Pilar’s four-week ... Read ![]() Canadian artist Fiona Dunnett: Images of self and death in Oaxaca are muted by comic style and collageAlvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Comic strips, a young Canadian’s self portraits, and photographs of violent deaths in a Mexican daily newspaper, make strange bedfellows. But they constitute a major part of the driving force for the creative ... Read ![]() Should I Rent a Car in Oaxaca?Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Driving a car in Oaxaca has always been dangerous, be it using your own or a rental vehicle (see my earlier article entitled Driving in Oaxaca: Rules of the Road). But with a dramatic change in the law ... Read ![]() Traveling Light to OaxacaAlvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. First-time travelers to Oaxaca, as well as return visitors and snowbirds, can all help to improve the financial lot of many struggling residents, aside from simply visiting the city and spending. It’s a ... Read ![]() Guadua: Restaurant Review for Puerto Escondido, OaxacaAlvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Guadua ranks arguably as the best restaurant and bar in Puerto Escondido in terms of both ambiance, and quality and creativity of fare. In fact for this reviewer it’s a full notch above the rest. The ... Read ![]() La Olla: Oaxaca Restaurant ReviewAlvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Sit down in most small restaurants in Oaxaca, order the comida corrida (full meal, daily special) and as fast as the Flying Burrito Brothers your server arrives with a bowl of tepid soup with miniscule ... Read ![]() Medical and Dental Treatment and Coverage in Oaxaca, MexicoAlvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. When I first gave up the practice of law in Toronto in favor of early retirement in Oaxaca, I assumed that the years I would add to my life by leading a much more stress-free existence in Mexico, would be lost ... Read Searches related to: mitla
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