Guanajuato fue bonita!

Home from Guanajuato! We had a great two days, except our rough start on the bus to Guanajuato and for the fact that Montezuma took his revenge on Eric early this morning. So we took an earlier bus back to San Miguel just in time to watch Espana win the World Cup with Chela and her extended family.


Guanajuato was spectacular-- a truly unique, one of a kind cities. I am posting an album, larger than the others as it was impossible to trim down any more. My camera just kept wanting to snap photos trying to capture all the incredible colors and the unique mountainsides filled with houses and the millions of little winedy roads and alleys to get to all of those homes.
A friend from school took the bus up on Saturday morning and met us after breakfast and we spent the day together on a self-guided tour. This was my 3rd visit there, but I had never had the time to truly explore on the ground. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so please check out my album and be patient with the number of photos of this beautiful city.

Planeta.com:

"It is hard not to fall head over heels for this historic silver-mining town, capital of the state of Guanajuato and cradle of Mexico's revolutionary art. The city (elevation: 6,561 feet; population 95,000) is a mountain town with cobblestone streets and its colonial architecture makes it one of the most picture-perfect cities in all of Mexico. Postcards from this city are among those most likely to end up on a café wall in Paris or Quito. As a result of its unusual urban lay-out and historical monuments Guanajuato City was declared aWorld Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988."