Tepoztlan Mexico. Cooking Classes, 5
I’ll be an a short vacation break and until I come back relish these beautiful pictures from our last cooking trip in Tepoztlan:
Being surrounded by mountains its inevitable to decide ‘to go or not to go’ up the mountain. At the top of one of the mountains in Tepoztlan is an ancient Indian pyramid, called El Tepozteco, and since this isn’t really a climbing mountain and just a hiking mountain, we decided to go up. We hike a lot in Minnesota in the wilderness up hills, around rocks so we didn’t think it was so bad and the locals said it would take 45 minutes to three hours depending on how fast you wanted to go. At first we’d walk and stop maybe every 15 minutes for a minute to stop and take pictures, then every 15 minutes turned into every 10, then every 5, all the while locals were passing is like walking up this mountain was like walking down the block to get milk. The biggest obstacle though was the last 500 feet…. it was so steep! At first there were metal stairs with railings but the last part was just stairs not much more than a meter wide. My husband couldn’t look down or I think he would have fallen from vertigo. After we reached the top we considered the possibility of calling a helicopter to pick us up. At the top though was a small pyramid but with amazing views, if we thought the views from La Villa Bonita were good, these were jaw dropping. Also at the top were dozens of friendly coati which were kind of like raccoons. They were so fun to watch!
After a day of adventuring in the mountains we decided to stick closer to the city and actually found a very beautiful and interesting place which was a former convent called Dominico de la Navidad. This had large open grounds where locals would have various activities going on and an operational church but the convent itself for the most part was converted to a museum. This was very interesting and thorough covering not only the history of Mexico but specifically the area of Morelos (the state where Tepoztlan is located)covering the original inhabitants, the Spanish arrival all the way up to present day. Unfortunately it was all in Spanish but was still very interesting.
To be continued…
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