Thewesternprovinceblog
A 🏴 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷
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Day 26 – Cholula Hello everyone. Yesterday I went to Cholula, the home of the biggest pyramid in the world although unlike Teotihuacán this one is largely buried and the Spanish built a church on top of it. To get to the top you have to climb up lots of stairs but when you get…
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Day 25 – Cinco de Mayo Hola todos. Time for another blog post. Today I decided to go check out forts Guadalupe and Loreto on the North side of town since I learned this was where the battle of 5 de Mayo took place. Up I went and decided to walk it, turned out it…
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Today was a fairly slow one, I had planned to visit a fort on the other side of the city but it’s closed on Mondays so it was another look around the historic center. I decided to go have a look in the Amparo Museum. It was pretty good and ended up spending longer there…
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Day 23 – R&R + more strange encounters. Hello everyone. Skipped a few days since the last blog however all it has really been is admin time and looking around the inner town of Puebla. They have a nice weekend market here that everyone goes out to and in general it’s quite a chill town.…
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Day 19 – The road to Puebla (Part 1) Hola Todos! Today we start our way south. From this point onwards we are truly in unknown territory and now anything can happen. Chatting to those Uber drivers doing the pyramids they said there was a big protest planned for tomorrow and that from mid morning…
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Day 18 – Pyramids at last!! So we finally got to Teotihuacán to see the pyramids after being distracted by our drunken side quests over the weekend! I had made plans with Simon’s friend to go to the pyramids together but unfortunately he was a no show last night and so it was left for…
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Day 17 – Castle time Hola Todos! Today was another day of sightseeing. We were up in good order around 0830 and decided today was a good time to do Chapultepec Castle, so we did just that, hopped into an Uber and headed for the castle. It sits inside quite a pretty park and the…
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Day 16 – Lazy Lunes con aprendizaje de la cultura! Hello everyone! Since we left off it was another slow start getting up but up we got about half 9-10 and decided to head out and grab some breakfast somewhere. Ended up going to this cute little place where it was café con leche with…
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Day 15 – Sunday Funday. Hello everyone. Today’s blog will be a short one as to be honest it was a bit of a wasted day. That said sometimes a chill one is best! After hitting that stupid night club we got back to our gaffe around 4 am I think and so we just…
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Hello good afternoon everyone! So today was day 14 & the first full day in Mexico, in some ways the real day 1 of this trip. Some of you have asked me why didn’t I just fly straight out from Blighty? Well a number of reasons, firstly when I booked the flight it was about…
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