Maya arrived bright and early in Mexico on Monday morning!!
Our rendez vous was incredibly excited, high pitched and loud for 6am in Mexico city!!
She was in good form and so we headed straight out to Taxco, for a bit more of a relaxing couple of days rather than the hardcore sightseeing we have planned for Mexico city...
Taxco is a beautiful silver town that is about 2.5 hrs south-west of Mexico city - it is very picturesque, sprawling across a hill and again full of narrow, twisting cobblestone streets! The town is very hilly, and consequently I now have buns of steel!!! The hills also mean there are heaps of local taxis to help people get around...all old fashioned white volkswagon bugs!! The buldings are all white, so it looked quite 'Greece' too.
The town is famous for it's silver, and silver shops are everywhere!! I am proud to say that I was very restrained!! Despite it's big reputation tho, there were hardly any other tourists - apparently the tourism has taken a hit after all the drug violence recently...
Taxco has a big fresh food market, where we had a few meals - delish fresh fruit, fresh-squeezed oj for $1, and some quesadillas for 80c too! Our only negative was the Mexican attempt at a coffee frappucino this morning - tasted like nail polish remover?? Epic fail.
It has been getting very warm here, which is lovely - except for the sleazey stares and 'hola chicitas' that we keep getting from all the Mexican men - swear they are undressing us with their eyes!!! Not sure if it is pasty limbs, bohemoth-like height (compared to them!) or perhaps too revealing clothes (not fair bc they are all in jeans and jumpers!)...
Gotta run, we are headed back to the big smoke soon!
LiZZie
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