Guanajuato

We got home late last night from Guanajuato. It's an incredible city in the middle of the sierras. Many of the roads in the city are underground. It is a city rich with mining history and the revolution for independence.

We left early on Friday morning and travelled first to the state of Hildalgo, the state named after the leader in the fight for independence. We went to San Miguel where there is the only Gothic Cathedral in the Country. It is very beautiful but since we are only a week out from the independece celebration everything historic is undergoing cleaning and repairs. After San Miguel we went to Deloros Hildago. This is the city that the original bell was rung for the independece, I mentioned it in an earlier post. We ate lunch here and then headed for Guanajauto. We immediately hired a guide to get us to our hotel. I quickly understood why with the maze of underground craziness. On Saturday we went to a mine and got caught in the dark for a moment, that was scary. We went to a museum for the independence that was built in an old granery. It was very neat. We ate lunch and then went to the house in which Diego Rivera was born. Really incredible. In the evening we went up the hill to the monument of the fight for independence. There is a great view of the city from there. In the morning we went to the museum of Don Quijote. It has many different types of works of art related to Don Quijote. Amazing. After that, we went to the mummy museum. These are mummies created without preparation of any kind. The soil near the city has nutrients that create mummies, they had dig up bodies and found the mummies. They have a huge number of mummies in the museum. Some grotesque, some sad and many interesting. I bought a bunch of local candies to share at home, I can't wait to do so.

Before we left, on Thursday night we went to a local festival, it was a lot of fun. A lot of things and a lot of people. Evidently there were rides there but we didn't see them. :( There seems to be a problem uploading more pictures but I'll get them up as soon as I can.