This weekend I went to Los Tuxtlas with my good friends Abril and Alejandro and their family, to celebrate Día De Independencía. Los tuxtlas is an area that contains Catemaco, San Andrés and Santiago and its about a 4 hour drive from Xalapa (4,5 if you stop in Cardel for delicious shrimp cocktail, wich you definitely should!:)
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| Jumpstarting with some Sol clamato - very weird! it tasted like sparkling tomato soup. but kinda delicious actually :) |
We arrived early at night and went straight to their uncles house where the whole family and then some was gathered for a celebration!
And a celebration it was! And there was real charros there!! :) (mexican cowboys) so we saluted in tequila, talked about horses and looked at ther guns :P
The food was ammaaazing! We had pozole and taquitos. Thats something else than the Old el Paso in norway :P (NOT SAYING I DONT MISS IT!!)
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| We had a familydinner in the afternoon, and I got to try Chiles De Nogada. Peppers stuffed with beef with a creamsauce and pomegranate. Deeeelicious! And its in the colors of the flag in the spirit of independence day :) |
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| Eyipantla waterfall outside Catemaco |
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| Festival Los Globos |
Everyone in the area gathers at this field in San Andrès for Festival Los Globos where they send up paper hot-air balloons. it was beautiful!
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| The national song and celebratory gunshooting, mexican style! :) |
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| Getting my aura cleansed by a shaman |
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Then we went to Nanciyaga for a walk in the jungle where we got our face painted with mud for our outer beauty, we drank mineralwater for our health and got our aura cleansed by a shaman.
It was a really weird experience, i was a littlebit nervous at first, butt hen she asked me to step into a circle and i just relaxed in an instant! She put leaves on me and said many prayers. Then she started burping…. Like alot!! So she said my aura was really bad :P and thats the way the bad spirits goes out of me and out through her.
So now Im all clean and fresh! :)
So again, my recommendation is that EVERYONE MUST GO HERE! it was amazing! of course i had the privilege of an entire family making my stay amazing. But either way. This place is coooool!! :D
Ta Luego!
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