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Attractive things in South West Hitomi Matsui

Hitomi Fall 2016 Southwest trip


Attractive things in South West Trip

     Southwest was one of my best trip. It was something special for me. Also place and people made me some special feeling. One especially impressive ting for me was Mexican Culture. There were many Mexican things in New Mexico and Arizona.


     These are chilies in old town Santa Fe. I saw many chilies in old town. Every chilies which I saw were hung. Appearance was already hot! I felt they are motif of New Mexico. It was very unique and cute.



      There was kind of open space outside the store. There were many colorful and unique shape things. I felt it showed us exactly Mexican. They were custom unique to New Mexico. Also each shop in old town were Pueblo style.



     This is the dinner at old town. The name is Taco's plate. We could eat each dishes in the plate with a good balance. Each food taste were unique. After rest of day in this trip, I ate many beans in Mexican dishes. These were first time for me to eat such a many beans! Their taste were deep and made me full easily. I also thought these tacos are spicy, but actually not.


     This is the pottery shop in Santa Fe. I didn't know New Mexico is famous in pottery. Different from Japanese pottery, they were very colorful, unique patterns and shapes. It seemed there were both traditional and modern style pottery in this shop.

    
     Also in each restaurant which we went the appetizer was usually tortilla chips. We could eat these tortilla freely. We liked it very much because we sometimes bought it as a snack. Also salsa sauce was spicy and good. We could ask server to bring more both tortilla chips and salsa.


     These were my first time  to experience Mexican culture and food deeply. Also it was very interesting for me to see new things. Interesting point in this trip was we could experience Mexican culture even though we were in the U.S. Next time, I think it's also interesting in I can go to Mexico and feel real Mexican things.

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