“All Mexicans love Oaxaca.” “I came for a week, and stayed a year!” “An extraordinary place.” These are some of the comments we hear from other visitors and expats as we mill around the city of Oaxaca (pronounced Wah-HAH-kah). It’s a week before Christmas when we arrive, and the main city square Zócalo is ablaze…
By Irene Butler – Published in Travellady e-zine and Canadian Traveller Magazine – Click for our Mexico Photo Galleries My spirited steed Bambino galloped along the white sand beach. The sapphire Sea of Cortez lapped the shore on one side; desert shrub nodded lethargically in the sun on the other. This same stretch of sheltered…
“Why do they put a worm in Tequila?” I ask as my wife Irene and I sit sipping the caramel coloured elixir that provokes taste buds into doing the Mexican hat dance. “Ah, Amigo,” answers our guide Angelica, who was born and raised in Guadalajara, “you need to visit the Raven to learn about Tequila.”…
In Tropical Riviera Nayarit Our Mexico Photo Galleries Curtains of foliage drape the sides of narrow waterways deep in the mangrove forest. Our small boat manoeuvres past the bulging roots which hold these amazing trees upright in the brackish water’s silt base. Crocodiles appear as drifting logs, until they swish their powerful tails. Large swamp…
Xcaret – by Irene Butler – Check out our Yucatan Photo Gallery – Published in Air Canada E Newsletter – Blissfully wrapped in turquoise surf, sandy beaches and alluring jungle, my “id” leapt for joy (as Freud would say) as I scurried between the kaleidoscope of attractions and activities. Xcaret (ish-cah-reht) Eco Park is a…
