San Juan Diquiyu, Oregon

San Juan Diquiyu is a small town in the sierra of Oaxaca bordering with Puebla, now San Juan Diquiyu Oregon is a town of immigrants living in Oregon where their main fiesta of honoring St. Juan Diquiyu is held every year just as in their old homeland. I was privileged enought to attend the ceremony which was majestic, folkloric and just a great time with my friends Eden and his fiance Maria. As explained to me by one of the elders in the village, in Oaxaca this party takes place for 3 days with continous live bands and people dancing and eating all the time.
Muchas gracias to Doña Sarita without whom this post and a great weekend would not have been possible....

1st course: Yiqui, Traditional corn soup made with goat fat and chile, partner dish of Goat meat Barbacoa which is cooked buried underground for a good 12 hours, this cuisine is Mixteca, meaning that it is at least around 1000 years old, now this one in particular was cooked right before I ate it...

Eden, local Mixteco boy, obviously very hungry before he finished his Yiqui, Sangre (goat blood with spices cooked in goat stomach) and a good plate of goat barbacoa, all with a big healthy dose of Tortillas and Salsa.

The long........ road back

My flight from Phnom Penh was cancelled then they told me that if I wanted to fly out the same day I would have to go through guess where... Bangkok! Anyway, after about 30 hours of travelling I was home in old Eugene OR... So the journey continues, this blog does not die here it shall follow me to ... Canada

Good by Southeast Asia, I know that I wil be back very soon...

Blue hour in Phnom Penh

In my last day in beautiful Cambodia after having to pass through the colon of Southeast Asian Poipet Cambodia and 50 km of a road paved with a mix of shit and mud I decided to stop being a cheap-ass and buy a memory card to film the streets where I walked in the capital that I love, sorry for the bad videotaping, the unsteady hand, the low res and the beads of sweat visible in my face throughout the whole thing...