A day before the last day of the year..

Today satursday 30 wetaher has turned a little milder, so is possible to go out and have fun with friends just the day before th last noe if the year. The shopping centers are open until late and people go to buy things or simply to have a trip. Anyway, as always the traffic chaos in Mexico city is the same, even when there are many thousands of people.. even maybe some millons who have left to some turistincal points...

Shopping in Mexico city streets

Even when these days after Christmas and before New Years Day is concidered as a break in the party time, the downtown streets are full of people, cars and noise. Lots of movable sellers occupy most of the streets and of course buyers do the same trying to get their merchandise. If a person is thinking in visiting this part of the city, it is a good idea getting there through undergroud which is crowded but much better than getting into a traffic jam for hours...

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Trafico en el centro historico de la Ciudad de Mexico

El trafico esta semana y a pesar de que, se supone un descanso en las compras decembrinas, se ha incrementado en la parte centrica, en buena medida debido a la aglomeracion usual de vendedores abulantes asi como de compradores de diversos articulos. En este sentido es prudente, si se desea asistir a la zona, hacerlo por metro, dejando el automovil en alguna zona cercana al destino que se desea llegar...

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Buses from Mexico City to Pochutla

There are many reports talking about the troubles for getting a ticket to travel from Mexico city to Pochutla by Estrella Blanca since there are not enough places for all that people that suddenly want to go to places like Mazunte instead of Oaxaca City this Chirstmas time, so if you are thinking to do the same, please shedule with time and check reservations...

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Chilling in Mexico

Winter has arrived to Mexico city seriously these last days, actually there many new reports of snow storms in the highlands of north. Here in the city, the cold weather is felt along the night with temperatures even below zero early morning...

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Noche de Rabanos en Oaxaca

"Noche de Rabanos" ( reddish night) which is oe of the most interesting events in the mexican celebration of Chirstmas, has been practically cancelled due to the police occupation of Oaxaca´s center. Tonight, press report that repudied gorbernor Ulises Ruiz, try to encourage people to go to the "celebration" mounted by comerciants of the center, he assisted there with a huge body of guards and policemen. Folks celebrations, seems to had moved to the little square of "El Carmen"..

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Snowing makes 15 cms of snow in mountains of Chihuahua

In the highest parts of Chihuahua State, the snow falling since last friday 22 has made a snow layer of 15 cms and it seems to continues htis way for more days. So the recomendation is be cautious when driving and be careful with health in general.

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5th Posada and start of Christmas vacation

Toda is the fifth posada ( of nine) and the vacation for burocracy begins today, so inthe following hours there will be a big exodus of people who will try to reach the national places where theiy wilil spend this time. In the historical center of Mexico, the traffic jams are incredibly heavy and therefore is someone is thinking to visit that zone, please do it by subway, it is usually crowded though, it is much lighter than drving on the surface...

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Christamas time in Mexico is celebrated in a different way than in other cultures, of course the main structure of the celebration is similar and everyday becomes more and more equal, but still some differences, maybe the biggest is the spirt of the celebration, in Mexico is precisely this, a celebration, a party.. or a serir of parties, not like in Europe , for example where it is more a religious and calm time. In Mexico, since december the 16th, known as the first "posada", the first aprty, there will come 8 more before Chirstmas day, in such parties children beat "piñatas" wich are colorful figures made in paper and filled up with fruits and candies, sing "letanias"...lirical representacion of the Christ birth, people eat food, drink beverages with alcohol and fruits, they share "aginaldos" with visitors and fire fireworks. This kind of celebration was origined from the need of spanish priest to teach catholicism practices to indian, then invented a misture of european elements and other who were proper of the natives. At the beginning the "posadas" were only in the little churches squares, but after a time, people took it to their own neighbourhooods and began to make it part of the tradition...

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Activity in the Popocatepetl volcano

Recently, amonth ago or so, the volcano Popocatepetl has begun to show some activity, even some weeks ago a big and think column of smoke was thrown some kilometers to the sky, and yesterdar was smoking along many hours.This has been, strangely commun in the end of the year, nobody knows the cause exactly. This nothing to worry about it but something to keep an eye in the volcano if one goes near it...

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First winter storms in Mexico

Last week the first winter storms started to fall in the north states of Mexico: Durango, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi for instance. There are some few dead people because of this but in the whole the situation is under control and there are not reasons to think in making emergency plans if visiting the zone. In the rest of the country weather is mild and even warm n the coast lines aside Mexican Gulf and mayan riviera. In Mexico city, there have not been envirorment emergency since some years ago, so it is ok just to cover before leaving the room and therefore possible to enjoy the christmas time.