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Xalapa's food and colour

22/8/2013

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The second and final stop of my Mexico leg was in Xalapa (pronounced Ha-la-pa). It's east of Mexico City and I took a one hour flight to get there.

It's a small city with lots of winding streets in the downtown area, which were all created well before cars. So at rush hour there are huge traffic jams!
Xalapa is home place to Jalapeño chilies, but there are all kinds of chilies for sale...
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I also found some cycads used as landscaping. These are Dioon, which are endemic to Mexico.
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The city is very pretty and the town hall and cathedral are in the colonial style.
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Below is a view of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains seen from Parque Juarez.
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    CHURCHILL-ABRS FELLOWSHIP

    In 2012, I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship sponsored  by the Australian Biological Resources Study. 
    This blog features postings about the many stops on my itinerary as I meet other scientists and visit botanic gardens in my goal to conserve Australia's endangered cycads.


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