Mexico Experience..... and travels...

Mexico Experience.....

<Originally Created> Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:32:55 AM

<Chronological as far as possible>

Events in Monterrey,Mexico will stay in memory for long time to come. Awesome friends ... although troubling at times..

The place is very good indeed. Picturesque scenery.... good food....beautiful women folks...
Had new experiences with different kinds of people..
many things will stay etched in my memory....
Frankly, the first for many things were done in here....

Be it cooking...working in a company setup which is big but starting from literally meagre beginnings...
traveling to new places(a highlight indeed)...and last not least...a set of colleagues...turning to be friends ...hope so we can have the same bond of friendship further on in life ...................
An account of my trips to come in the coming posts..........

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TRIP TO TAMPICO & SAN LUIS POTOSI...[Feb'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Ashutosh,Kartik,Vijay,Gauri,Shankarram,Karan,Shakti]


To be written.......

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TRIP TO MEXICO CITY...[March'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Ashutosh,Kartik,Vijay,Gauri,Indrani,Senthil,Lokesh,Sanjay,Krishnan]

A trip to the capital city of this country revealed a lot of the traditions and culture that forms the backbone of this beautiful country...
Our travel started on a exciting note(of sorts...)by missing the bus Upon,reaching, the first striking difference from monterrey was visible in the difference in architecture and the commuting facilites. A network of Subways/Metros formed the backbone for the transportation needs of the locals there.
Having reached a designated hotel, we got together to have a Mexican Breakfast...Once all were freshened up, we went ahead to aboard the Turi Bus (Pronounced as Too-ri Boo-ss).... Atop the roof of the bus, we saw the City of Mexico... A nice time we had ... with a ear piece on, a pre-recorded voice kept explaining us the history and the ideas behind the many beautiful constructions in the city..
Although, it difficult to reaccount all..Some were...Zacalo..

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TRIP TO Guanajuato...[4th - 7th July]

[Participants: Pritam,Jatin,Indrani,Krishnan,Arvind,Praveen,Thiru,Krishna,Jennie,Andy,Gurmit,Shakti,Karan]

A trip to the historical genius of the Mexican culture. The trip was though cramped up in a weekend but it was fun.The places we visited included Guanajuato,Leon and San Miguel.




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TRIP TO Housten,San Antonio (USA)...[29th Aug - 1st Sept'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Jatin,Raghu,Gaurav,Aniket,Kunal,Amitav]

An Ad-hoc plan transalted to an adventure maiden trip to the USA.



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TRIP TO Gudlajara...[12th - 15th Sept'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Indrani,Shobna,Pepe,Kavitha,Onkar,Swaroop]

A quick plan and a nice trip to the 2nd biggest city in Mexico, the birth place of Tequilla (Tequilla Country)... ...


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TRIP TO Real De Catorce... [20th Sept'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Indrani,Ajay]

An Ad-hoc plan made over a drinks table and we find ourselves speeding away on a X-Trail to one of the oldest cities in Mexico... was also tagged as the Ghost Mining Town till sometime back... it has an mystical catus ,, said to have amazing healing and medicinal powers. Legend has it that the vision for building up Mexico City came from here. Long back it also used to be the Financial Center of Mexico with mines filled of Silver being excavated here and printing of coins being done here.
Thereafter, having a horseride at the top of a stony mountain with the trail looking like no less than the Great Walls of China.... believe me ... we really felt that we might have put our life to risks

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TRIP TO Mesa Del Oso... [27th - 28th Sept'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Gurmit,Snehal,Onkar,Akshay]

A place of heavenly beauty and calmness... serene and silent with literally only the chirping of the birds to break the silence... On a lonely cottage surrounded by clouds and greenery with the freedom to do Nothing and just RELAX. This was what we did for around 2 days...
With the road to the place was no less then heavy trekking... car getting stuck in the mud..we pushing the car to get it going..driving on blind turns on the mountains..rocky terrains and risky cliffs... ...but..it was FUN




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TRIP TO Veracruz... [4th - 6th Oct'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Indrani,Arvind,Ajay,Swaroop,Satish]

A trip that will be remembered where we swam in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico with 360 deg waters and Jet Skying on the ocean. Visiting the city of the Pyramids (El Tahin) and walking on the lonely beaches with no more than few people around... an exhuberance in true sense.


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TRIP TO Acapulco... [31st Oct - 2nd Nov'08]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Indrani,Ajay,Swaroop,Rashmi,Jatin]

Awesome time on the beach with almost tremendous water activities. Some of the things we did.... Parasailing (Boat pulls the rope attached to u and u fly up on hooked to a parachute) , Jet Skying (driving a water-bike on the hard/strong currents of the Pacific Ocean), Banana Rides (all 7 get hooked on to the banana shaped boat that gets toppled over at the middle of the ocean, a sudden shock to all who find themselves first struggling to come to terms and then to save themselves), Scuba Diving (completly loaded with Masks, Oxygen Cylinders, Fish Fins... we jump into the mid ocean and scale the depth of the ocean and the beauties under the water... swiming with the fishes... getting drowned sometime but managing to pull myself back to the levels ) , Boat Party (..Observing the beautiful sun go from the sorching self to the red cherry form and the vanishing in a glow....cracking up a champaigne on the boat...driving a boat :d) , Party like crazy on a beach side club till 5:00 am , culminating in barely missing the plane back to mty.


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TRIP TO Linares... [Jan 17th '2009]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Shobana,Kamal,Swaroop,Rashmi,Jatin]

Nice one day trip to a dam on a 2-3 hr drive from Mty. Nice scenic place with a difference.
On coming back, went to a go-karting arena (the biggest and best professional track in MTY).
Got lost in driving to the go-karting areana and back home.
Nice fun on the way and back.

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TRIP TO Zacatecus... [Jan 31st '2009]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Shobana,Kamal,Swaroop,Jatin,Senthil,Jennie,Lokesh,Sunny]



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TRIP TO US (McAllen). [Feb h '2009]

[Participants: Pritam]

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TRIP TO US (Laredo). [Next Week Feb '2009]

[Participants: Pritam]

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10 K marathon Run [March 8th '2009]

[Participants: Pritam,Praveen,Jatin]

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Saltillo Trip [April 25th '2009]

[Participants: Pritam,Hitesh,Gil,Rajesh,Santosh]

Was not ready to get on this trip as was having fever... but i went on....
A Nice small city with good museums and cultural place. Museum of Deserts was one of interst and a very lengthy affair. It had all various areas of interst. Starting from History,Bio-Diversity,Desert Plants,Historic animals..DINOSAURAS..stood out ..with their supposedly original fossils and excavated bones..under water world... eagles flying by..bears jumping around..meerkat's burrowing at the grounds...Stuffed animals in real life structure... nice place. Then roaming round around in the town of Saltillo... looking for food .. and a good place to chill out. ...Got on to the highway for back to MTY and halted to have dinner ar the "La Brazers". Nice place, nice live music (the lady could play the guitar really well).. ok drinks.. finished all and headed back to the road to MTY. Lest we knew that we would get lost after entering the city and roamed the roads for 2.5 hrs missing exits and finding new roads and names . Managed somehow with the help of a mexican guy who actually led us out of the bhool-bhlaiya. He mentioned a nice stmt. "..no problems.. Its the Mexican thing...", impressed me.
Anyways.. reached home and crashed on bed. A long quite exciting day closes.....

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Cancun Trip [June 27th - June 29th '2009]

[Participants: Pritam,Sunny,Gil,Rajesh,Manju,Shobana,Thirumalai]

1st day - xcaret and dady'o at night
2nd day - chichen itza and coco bongo at night
3rd day - Isla Mujeres and cancun beach

A place which I had to visit to complete my Mexico trip. A place hyped out and asked by all [].
A nice trip though. Fun from small activities.
Did Snorkling and Snuba diving (diff from Scuba where u have the oxygen cylinder to ur back) at xcaret.
Did Kyak at Isla Mujeres.
Jet skying at a cancun beach.Went on cruise amongst a good nice group of international crowd.
And much all...games at swimming pool..pockets being less of cash(unprecedented cost of stuffs)..etc etc...