Guanajuato!

So on we went towards the well known city of Guanajuato (I remember hearing so much about this town when I was a kid!). Once we arrived there we could not really go into the downtown area because cubby was just too tall and wide for those narrow roads and low tunnels, so we had to loop around the outer part of the town, which wasn't so bad anyway, because that area was really beautiful!
We ended up staying at a huge parking lot area up in the hills of Guanajuato. They also had goats and horses there and that made it pretty charming, although the little shits would not come to you when you called them!
The city of Guanajuato ended up being really amazing and beautiful. If I may say so, it is actually my favorite city in Mexico, that simple.
After the first day we decided to explore the city in more detail, because the first time we went into town it seemed like there wasn't much to it and that it was pretty small, but we were pretty wrong! This city is pretty amazing and the whole setting of the town, its architecture, the narrow and very steep streets etc, make it look very similar to Valparaiso, a city in Chile that I love so much (I studied there).

The second day there we went out at to see what the night life had for us. It had been a while since any of us went out at night. Traveling and seeing so many things all the time gets you kind of tired (and I also do all the driving and repairing) and you just don't feel like going out at night, but going to bed pretty early, at 9 or so, hahaaaa.
We found out about an "Estudiantina" doing what they call a "callejoneada" in the town so we decided to do that. It was simply great. They were great musicians and very entertaining as well. They took us through the very small streets all the way up the hills and around awesome places for a couple of hours.


Estudiantina in Guanajuato

While in Guanajuato, we also visited the Mummy museum, which is a creepy place indeed. Back in the 1800's, the local government decided to charge people buried in the cemetery a "fee" for being there, like rent or something like that. If you couldn't pay (the living members of the family of course) or if you didn't have any family at all, they dug out your body. When doing this they discovered that because of the temperature of the soil at the cemetery, the special soil composition and other factors, the bodies where amazingly well preserved, so they came up with the awesome and creepy idea of putting all the bodies they dug out in a museum!!! And while none of us really like that kind of shit, while in Guanajuato you simply "have" to visit that place. And so we did, I won't put any pictures of that here, but it was quite something. Most of the bodies are naked and you find men, women and children in the museum. Some bodies are so well preserved that you can still see the skin, pubic hair and all kinds of shit. At times it was a bit sad, cause there was one lady that was accidentally buried alive, and you could see the way her hands were positioned, after she suffocated to death, and the broken nails trying to scratch her coffin.
Oh well, enough of that! I don't really remember the order in which we did stuff but we did go to the market, museum, walked a lot and visited pretty much everything there.

We also visited the childhood home-museum of Diego Rivera in the city.

This is a beautiful little cafe with the best tiramisu in the world!

Elevator to a higher part of the city

Gorgeous sunset

We also got to see a sidewalk art competition. It was really good!

 

 

Well, that's pretty much it for Guanajuato. This city will forever be in my heart as one of the prettiest ones I have visited. If you are ever in Mexico, you MUST go there. Many people like Oaxaca, Cancun, Acapulco etc. People are usually predisposed when visiting places, but if you are just traveling and not expecting anything in particular, you can be pleasantly surprised.

More posts to come soon, and hopefully we will start to catch up with them. See you soon!