riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (02/12/85)
A friend of mine and I are contemplating taking a vacation to Mexico this
May. We'll have about two weeks and a reasonable but hardly lavish budget.
We're still at the point where we're trying to decide where to go, and I
wonder whether anyone on Usenet might have suggestions.
Please note that we are NOT going to Mexico in order to rub elbows with
other North American tourists or pretend that we're in Palm Springs: we like
the idea of really seeing Mexico and being around Mexicans. We're looking
for relatively untouristy places with natural beauty, good food,
archeological sites, surviving folk arts and/or special character. Luxury
seaside resorts are out of the question.
We plan on traveling by available local transportation (i.e., we won't
bring a car). We're just fussy enough that we prefer our hotels to have hot
water at least a few hours a day and no bedbugs, but we'd walk a mile to
avoid a Holiday Inn clone. One of us speaks Spanish.
As an example of the kind of place we're looking for, I once spent a very
enjoyable week in Oaxaca and its environs. True, there were some tourists
around, but not so many that place was swamped. We may go back to Oaxaca,
but we're also considering trying something new.
If you have visited the kind of place you think we might enjoy, please let
me know. Short replies should go to me by mail and I will summarize to this
newsgroup; anything more than two or three paragraphs probably deserves to
be posted directly as a followup.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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--- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle@zotz.ARPAli51x@sdcc3.UUCP (li51x) (02/18/85)
TO: Prentiss Riddle: What about San Miguel de Allend in Gto, about 4hrs N (by bus) of Mexico City? It's a bit Palms-Springish (a Mexican version thereof), but hospitable. As long as you avoid the American retirement community, I think that you will find it a tolerant community of international artists and students. For more information, I adivse writing to either the Academia or the Instituto schools. They can tell you about their programs and about the city and accommodations. The boarding houses and hotels seem to fill up, but it is possible to find something in advance. I noticed that quite a few people use the city and its Spanish language teaching schools as a starting place for a grand tour of Central America. --Michelle