Beautiful sights in Oaxaca

Nil and I decided to go on an arranged tour Wednesday to see some of the beautiful sights here in Oaxaca, and since it was way cheaper on a tour we ended up doing that.
We ended on a tour with only 5 other people, but 4 of them were some horrible mexican ladies. I am sorry to say it, but many of the mexican ladies have absolutely no respect they are rude and just say the first thing that comes to mind. Before we even had said hallo to them they had insulted Nil because she is argentinian (many people here find argentinian people arrogant) and they just didn't have any idea of when to shut up, so that was kind of a task in itself to be around them all day.
That said, we visited many beautiful sights, first was Tule, a huge tree 45 meters high and 7 meters in diameter, something like that:

Next stop was a handcraft place where they still make carpets the traditional way, colouring the wool with natural products:

Mezcal is a tipical alcoholic drink, similar to tequila but there is apparently some difference in the destilation or something like that. In the tour we passed by a place where they make mezcal:

It is a worm in the bottle, and when ou serve the mezcal, when it is served with your drink you have to eat it.

Mitla is an arquelogical site in Oaxaca, very beautiful and different from what I have seen in other places. It had beautiful decoration, take a look:

The last stop was Hierve el agua, boiled water, 2500 meters over sea level and it has some stonewaterfalls and some small pools of water. It is called hierve el agua since the water is comming up with lots of pressure so it looks like it is boiling, but it is actually not that hot at all, but very beautiful indeed:

Back in Oaxaca we had great dinner in or favorite restaurant that we found the oter day, great vegetarian food too, and cheap ;)

Puebla y Cholula

Leaving Guanajuato was tough, but at least I had a long busride to try and understand it and realize that I am now entering the final part of my exchange here in Mexico.
Nil and I arrived in Puebla after a 7-8 hours busride on Friday, and we arrived to a very rainy city, something that is pretty diferent from what we have been used to in Guanajuato. Maria from back home has been doing volunteerwork in Puebla, so she knew a couple of people who could host us. We stayed at Erika, a friend o Maria's friend's, really nice girl who made us feel very at home.
The first night we had a couple of beers with her an some friends of her's, a swedish, romanian and italian girl, but we didn't really last that long since neither of us had had much sleep the night before - the last night in Guanajuato.
Saturday we went to Cholula, a small village out from Puebla, with the girls from Friday night. But since it is rainy season it started raining like crazy just as we arrived, but then we had some food until the rain stopped. It was beautiful though, and when the rain stopped we went to have a closer look:

The church on top of a pyramid.

 Nil trying a local specialty - fried grasshopper

Nil and the romanian girl, Andrada

 Cholula - magic village

Sunday we went to downtown Puebla with Erika, and later Jorge, Maria's friend, met up with us. I really liked the city center, colonial, lots of markeds and beautiful buildings. Have a look:

Erika and Nil

Teatro Principal - supposedly the oldest theater in Latinamerica that is that is still used.

Traditional handcrafts from Puebla

The cathedral - huge

We bumped in to some people doing typical dances...

... and a group of clowns

The view from the balcony in an important building I can't remember the name of it though.

Barrio del artista

We left Puebla this morning to go to Oaxaca, so now it will be interesting to see what it has to offer, it is supposed to be a really beautiful ity.

Last couple of weeks in Guanajuato

It's been a weird couple of weeks since I came back from Colombia. Everything is pretty diferent around here when it comes to exams, cause I have been working on exam papers since I came back and I've had to hand them all in this week, so it has been a lot of workload, and mostly it is like you can't see the end of it with so many papers at the same time. But now it is almost over. I have my last and only real exam today, and then I am leaving Guanajuato tomorrow morning. It is really a weird feeling, this semester has flown by, and now it is practically over. I have had both good and bad times here, and also met some great people that I am gonna miss a lot.

Here are som photos from the last couple of weeks:

Anna and Bea, swedish and norwegian girls, invited us over for a Eurovision celebration, it was kind of weird to be all eurovision at 2 o'clock in the afternoon ;)

Bea and I have had some "tough" times, so we have had to go to our favourite bar, Vanilla, to calm down with a beer or two :p I'm really gonna miss that!

Working hard to be done with our exam papers

This is not a place I am gonna miss on the other hand, this is where I had class at 7 o'clock on Thursdays, horrible time of the day and not very comfortable chairs taken out of the 80s!

Going for our last class in Valenciana, which is most likely the most beautiful of the campus they have here.

It was raining like crazy last week, the small streets turned in to rivers, you can see it in the back.

My house

and the garden

View from the classroom, not too bad ;)

We had a goodbye ceremony with the university a couple of weeks ago where they gave us a piece of paper that said that we had been in exchange here, I am not sure what it is for, but they love stamps and signature and other stuff that makes a simple piece of paper look important. So we also had to do a small speach when we got our piece of paper, in that moment I was pretty happy that my last name starts with "w" so I had some time to figure out what to say ;)

Las güeras - the blond girls.

Tomorrow morning I am leaving for Puebla with Nil, leaving all this behind me, I hate goodbyes, but hopefully there will be more "see you" 's than "goodbye" 's.