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After breakfast (with omelett with ham and cheese being the special) we took off for a long daily ride, our longest one so far, we were gone for about 8 hours overall. Our ride took us to the mountains, we rode into a valley, then through a little mountain town called "San Miguel", where we also made our first pause for drinking. It was very hot today, probably the hottest day so far (which wasn't that bad though, since a swimming break was planned for todays ride anyway  We all had brought our bikinis with us)After some more riding through the valley, we ´arrived at our lunch and swimming break place, a very nice part of the valley, surrounded by mountains and with a small river running through it. We prepared our picnic (properly with rugs sandwiches and bottles of hibiscus water - a drink we always got at the ranch in addition to pure water, a very interesting taste - that we had brought in pack bags on the horses) nearby a little tarn, in which we also went swimming after lunch. After resting for about 2 hours (and after having dried again ), we continued for our ride home, this time we went more straightly up one of the mountains that was surrounding us, climbing over a lot of rocks again. On the way home we came by a small town with a very interesting looking pink church. There we also stopped for another drinking pause (everybody drinking the usual choice of coke, water or beer :-P). Dinner this day was special, it was "La Noche Mexicana rosa", which meant not only the usual great food, but also live music (a local singer singing Mexican folk songs) and dancing performances. Also we got even one course more than usually (which meant being even more stuffed than usually *eek*). We first got a gazpache made of beetroot, vegetables and lots of chili (a cold hot soup therefor :-P), I loved it, followed by shrimps with garlic and chili and as a main dish chicken, beef, paprica and tortillas and finally vanilla ice cream with wild berries. We took the dessert outside in the patio, because we were going watch the dancing performances, which consisted of Lallo and Rosalda showing Mexican folk and step dances, it was very cool! Later in the evening we danced ourselves, had some more drinks, this night we definitely broke our record for staying up late, we managed until 23:45 :P (and we still got up at 7am the next morning). 0 Comments 06-29-2007 09:08 PM
Photos: http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s123/LitlaGletta/Mexico/Mexico%20-%20Day%206/ On Friday we went to the market in Jilotepec for shopping in the morning. We only had coffee at the ranch, but stopped for breakfast at a small food stand next to the road on the way to Jilotepec, where the workers of a nearby factory usually stop for breakfast. There we got some hot "roll" made out of a corn based dough, filled with chicken. It tasted well, but was very stuffing (which is probably the purpose of such a breakfast). With it we got some interesting kind of hot chocolate, which was very viscous and was more like a hot and fluid chocolate pudding than a hot chocolate (the same drink alternatively was available with strawberry taste). After the breakfast we continued the drive to the market. At the market we first looked at some stands that sold western riding equipment and Susi and I both bought miniature Mexican riding horsewhips (to hang in the car as decoration ). Generally the market in Jilotepec sells a mix of food (most standing out: huge plates of bacon rind :shuffle: and lots of chili), household articles, clothes and shoes (and a little bit of everything else, but the beforementioned stuff was the most common). Also they had tons of riding boots and western hats. I ended up buying two shirts, a "Hello Kitty" one  and a light green one. Back at the ranch, it was time for lunch again, we got Borritos and as dessert banana split ice cream. It was very yummy, but we all were more or less still stuffed from the breakfast :lol: In the afternoon, we did a 3 hours ride onto another hill. It was very hot that day and Troja was pretty lazy this time, but it still was a very enjoyable ride and the look down from the hill was as always very beautiful. The only problem was that Susi started feeling somewhat sick during the ride, she wasn't quite sure whether it was the breakfast, the coconuts she had bought at the market or whether she had just overeaten herself in general, cause she had eaten lunch, even though she wasn't even the least bit hungry again. She later decided that the last alternative was the most likely one :-P So she changed horses for the way back home (she had Amigo, a very nervous and mercurial horse, who was not exactly relaxing to ride, so she felt more comfortable riding home on Tabacco, who is a very calm horse). For dinner that day we had a Shrimps cocktail with a hot sauce (wheeee, Shrimps!), followed by filled paprika in a dough crust and as a dessert, strawberry mousse. Susi skipped dinner and went to bed early in the hope that she would feel fine again the next morning (but unfortunately it took her one more day to recover). 0 Comments 06-23-2007 01:37 PM
Thursday, May 31st On Thursday we had pancakes with maple sirup for breakfast. I had eaten this once when I was in the US and found the maple sirup very yucky back then, but surprisingly the one we got this time was very nice, much sweeter. Today I got a new horse (Troja had to have his lost horseshoes replaced), Sultan. Sultan is the leader of the horse herd (even if watching the herd occasionally we had the impression that Amigo, a small horse that we got to ride later, at least has some ambitions to challenge Sultan for the position) and liked to remind the other horses of it during the rides, by pinching them into the behind and by always wanting to ride in front. He tried the same with the dogs, which didn't convince them to stay away from him though. Sultan was a very comfortable to sit horse and a very energetic and lively one, I enjoyed riding him a lot. He also was Klaus' favorite horse the last time he was in Mexico, but he had been having back problems lately and therefor was only used for light people and also only in a limited way. Today we did a 3 and 1/2 hours ride onto the nearby mountain/hill. We climbed our way up the hill over stones and between bushes. On top there was a rather big meadow, that we used for a nice gallop. The view over the Mexican highlands was very beautiful from the top of the hill and it was also the first time we really saw how mountainous the area around the ranch really is. They way back down over the stony ground was even more shaky than the way up, but a lot of fun. For lunch we had Enchiladas with chicken and Tomato salad and as dessert a very pink cake with citron taste (pastry in very flashy colors seem to be very popular in Mexico - just as houses in very flashy colors ).Today was also the first time we went somewhere without horses We took a drive with the car to Tula, a town about a 30 minutes drive from the ranch, where some ancient Toltec pyramids and excavations can be seen. Instead of driving inside the car, we got to sit on the back at the cargo area, which was a lot of fun (even if very windy :-P). Klaus, Susi and I went to look at the pyramids, while Moni went shopping with Uschi (the ranch owner), since she already had seen the pyramids the last time Klaus and she were in Mexico and didn't feel like going there again. We first looked at the museum and then walked to the pyramids, past some souvenir stands, where I bought a postcard (the only time we were somewhere where they had any at all) and a pair of pretty open shoes (I mainly bought them cause I had brought too little shoes to Mexico *drama* ). We climbed to the top of the one still complete pyramid, on top of which Susi got a bit of an vertigo attack (the pyramid was actually not that high, but open to all sides and of course there were no rails with the steps to the top). But after some taking herself together she managed to climb back down, with the help of Klaus. She was pretty convinced that she wouldn't have gotten down again if she had been on her own though :shuffle: Afterwards we were picked up again and went to the inner city for some shopping. First we went to a western riding shop, where Klaus bought a western shirt and a knot halter for his horse at home. They had some very cool miniature western saddles, with all the details of a real one (they of course had very cool real ones as well ), but they were very expensive and I was afraid to run out of Pesos, so I didn't buy one. Afterwards we went shopping for clothes and accessoires. I liked the inner city of Tula, it was quite pretty and very lively. i bought two hairbands and a beautiful handbag, while the others mostly bought clothes. For dinner we had cauliflower soup, followed by chicken with chocolate-chili sauce and pasta and ice cream (and a Margherita ) for the dessert. 0 Comments 06-22-2007 05:26 PM
Wednesday 30th Photos: http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s123/LitlaGletta/Mexico/Mexico%20-%20Day%204/ Wednesday was the first day when I was able to sleep "longer", till 7am :P This morning we had a very yummy breakfast special, toast with ham, cheese, egg and hot salsa. We did another 4 hours ride, this time we crossed some railways (Susi said it would have been more exciting if a train had been coming :-P) to a small village on top of a hill. We saw some beautiful flowers in the gardens on the way up to the village. In the village we as usually stopped at a small store to have some water or coke (or a cerveza, if wanted ). We always found it interesting to check out which candy is popular in Mexico, which of it is the same as in Back at the ranch, we got Nachos with a very hot Germany and what are things that we can't get here. The most interesting candy we saw were some chili-flavored/covered long sticks, even though none of us actually dared to try them :-P I again was riding Troja and we were accompanied by Choki and Antonio's German shephard again. On the way back Klaus tried to take gallop photos (we had to gallop past him), but it wasn't all that successful, cause half of the horses didn't see the point of galloping by a waiting horse and prefered to slow down as soon as we approached him with his camera :-P tomato salad and then an interesting "casserole" made out of rice, corn, other vegetables and sour cream", followed by some ice cream with ananas. In the evening we did another shorter 90 minutes ride, to a tree upon a hill, from which it was possible to have a very nice look over the landscape near the ranch. We also did a very fast gallop during that ride, during which Troja lost two horseshoes. On the way back to the ranch we climbed over a lot of stones near the waterfalls (I was glad that Troja was so sure-footed even with the two lost shoes). For dinner we had a cream soup, followed by chicken with Mango-sauce and a Mango-creme with cookies for dessert. As always we ended the evening with a cocktail, in my case a Pina Colada. 0 Comments 06-15-2007 05:50 PM
Tuesday, May 29th Photos: http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s123/LitlaGletta/Mexico/Mexico%20-%20Day%203/ On Tuesday I got a new horse, Troja, a strong dark chestnut colored horse. This time we only were accompanied by one dog, Choki (he's probably convinced it's his "work" to accompany his herd of horses ). This time we took a beautiful route around a big mountain near the ranch, climbing along rocks and between bushes and trees, landscape wise it was the most interesting ride so far. We also did a long gallop during which we gallopped into the wrong direction, which we only noticed when we saw our guide several hundred meters to the right of us. The goal of our ride was a city called San Francisco (not quite as big as its Us American counterpart and no ocean or bridges , but still an a bit bigger town than the villages near the ranch). There we had a rest at a huge tree that had some sort of shrine built into it and afterwards we stopped at a local small restaurant (that claimed to be able to serve between 500 and 5000 people on a sign on the outside :P ) and had lunch there. I noticed that the bathroom next to the restaurant had a huge beautifully designed ceramic sign above the door on the outside that said "Please wash your hands after using the toilet" :lol: ). For lunch we got a hot tomato salad, some sort of dough with sour cream on it (reminded me a bit of Hungarian Langos), some filled rolled dough (sort of like Chinese spring rolls) and tortillas with cheese, salad and chicken, as always it was very yummy! And we got a dessert too: turquoise blue "wobble pudding" (if someone in Germany cooked a Mexican meal and ended it with that as a dessert, I bet all the German guests would complain that this is not typically Mexican and doesn't fit with the rest :P ) The way back home was shorter than the first half of the ride. In the evening, this time we had an extremely tasty Pina Colada and then for dinner a Broccoli-Creme-soup and as the main dish a Green Salsa with meat, vegetables and corn rice. Dessert was Lemon icecream with Tequila 0 Comments | Rate Me About Me
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