Mexicans

My amazing homestay family in Guanajuato. Mama's cooking was especially tasty and in copious quantities. Managed to put on about 5 kg in a week thanks to her culinary ways - hundred and one ways of cooking tortillas (flat corn bread), moles (rich dark sauces consisting of ground chocolate, cinnamon, chillies etc over chicken or pork), and tamales (corn dough and condiments wrapped in corn stalks).
The family were always joking with each other and there was a real warmth and love that was always palpable. Family seems much more important to Mexicans than to Australians or Koreans, and these folks always find time for a meal together in the evening or at 3.30 pm (lunch happens late in Mexico).

This Mexican girl was so cute that I couldn't resist snapping a quick candid picture. She is busy admiring some of the Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan and is wearing a blouse with traditional indigenous embroidered motifs. There was an astonishing variety of indigenous groups in Mexico and travelling a few hundred kilometers on a bus was enough to notice a perceptible difference in the appearances of the locals, not surprising in a country where 60% of the population is mestizo or descendents of both Europeans and Indigenous peoples.