Patzcuaro, Mexico
Boats on Lake Patzcuaro
1,000 feet higher and an hour west of Morelia, lies the small town of Patzcuaro, one of only 100 Historic World Treasure Cities names by the United Nations. There is a lot to love about it
Playing on the Playa
Get Your Fresh Young Coconuts Here!
“Hola amigo, you want to go para-sailing?
Boat ride?
Horseback riding?
Snorkeling?
Jetski?”
No, gracias.
“No watersports today? How about some weeeeedddd? You wanna smoke?”
Morelian Meandering
Welcome to Morelia
Morelia is the coolest place you’ve never been, begins my copy of Lonely Planet Mexico. By cool, I think they meant the temperature, because the evenings were frigid. Either that, or this specific Lonely Planet writer hasn’t ventured out much. It is a beautiful town with great architecture and good food, but it takes more than that to win a coolest place award
Millions of Mariposas
Beautiful Wing Structure
High up in the mountains east of Morelia, Mexico, is where one of the great mysteries of the natural world takes place. Every year, hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies migrate 4,000 km from the North and Eastern United States to a breeding grounds in Mexico.
Galavanting About Guanajuato
While staying in San Miguel, we were repeatedly encouraged to visit nearby Guanajuato. Plenty of tours were available for about $75 a head, but inevitably organized tours are a compromise between the fattest, laziest, most decrepit, and loudest people in the group. Since we lack patience for any of those characteristics, we decided to slum it and organize everything ourselves.
