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[nothing180]

Hey

I will be travelling to Mexico City for 9 days the first week of May where I will be staying with friends. they are taking me to some of the surrounding towns on a road trip/research trip. I want to teach English in an area around Mexico City, so I wanted to check out a few of the areas before I make my decision.

If anyone of you teach in, have taught in, or have visited either Cuernavaca or Taxco or anywhere around there and can suggest any tourist attractions I should check out, or any schools I should look at while I'm there for possible jobs, I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to meet with anyone in those areas as well to pick your brain hahaha.

Thanks so much!

[cshel]

While in Cuernavaca, be sure to have an evening meal at Las Mananitas.
It's beautiful...and the food's very tasty!

[Guy Courchesne]

Taxco is a nice day trip, but not more than that. I think it's about a 3 hour bus trip from Cuernavaca. Leave early and get a queen's lunch in a rooftop restaurant right next to the Cathedral Santa Prisca. Just outside town you can visit the old silver mines, or just walk around buying cheap silvercrafts in all the shops. This town is built for pictures and a good pair of walking shoes as the cobblestone streets wind up and down at impossible angles.

[MO39]

One of my favorite places in Cuernavaca is the walled cathedral compound. The cathedral itself is an impressive building dating from the earlier years of the Colonia, so it was built in a sober, quasi-medieval style. The interior was restored/modernized in the 1970s (I believe) when amazing wall paintings from the 16th century were uncovered. The altar and other liturgical components of the structure were designed and decorated in a modern style that both evokes and affirms the austere spiritual character of the original architecture.

[Guy Courchesne]

On that note, there's a great little Italian restaurant that overlooks the compound. Can't remember the name...Luigi's or something.