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Published: January 1st 2010
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Town centre in Angangueo
Angangueo is a very friendly and pretty little town up in the mountains Angangueo, Morelia, Patzquaro and Uruapan
This year Ake decided to celebrate Christmas and New Year in Mexico. Emma preferred a traditional Christmas with family and relatives so she stayed in Sweden. So if you read the rest of this entry and the following three entries you can follow what I was up to these weeks.
I don´t have any great need to celebrate Christmas. But what I do need is to get away from the dark, cold and miserable place that Sweden is at this time of the year. So leaving for two weeks and go to a land where there is more than four hours of daylight each day and where there is not 30 centimeter of snow outside is just about perfect for me.
When I arrived in Mexico it was to the capital Mexico City. I stayed there for one day to get a bit acclimatized. I will write about that day in a later entry on the blog. Instead I will start by writing about what I did after I left Mexico City.
The small mining town Angangueo was the first place I went to after my one day in Mexico City. It
The church in Angangueo
The small mining town Angangueo was the first place I went to after my one day in Mexico City. It was cold at night because the town is at high altitude is a very friendly and pretty little town up in the mountains. I called it a mining town but I am not quite sure that it is correct. It might be better to call it a
former mining town. At least the only mine I found when I walked around was permanently closed.
Angangueo is at high altitude and that made the nights in the town quite cold. The days were nice enough but at night the temperature went down to nearly freezing point. It is a bit ironic that I go to Mexico to avoid the cold weather in Sweden and I end up in a place where it is almost as cold and where the houses don´t have central heating.
After Angangueo I went to the city Morelia. Morelia was founded by the Spanish when Mexico was a Spanish colony. The old colonial buildings from the 18th century are very well preserved and that has prompted UNESCO to give the city centre the status of a world heritage.
I spent Christmas day in Morelia and that meant that many museums and shops were closed. It was not the end of the world though because most
Closed mine
The only mine I found when I walked around was permanently closed of the interesting things to see in Morelia are anyway outdoors. The main attraction of the city is simply to just walk around and enjoy all the beautiful buildings in the city centre. But there was one place where I really wanted to go in but couldn't and that was the cathedral. The cathedral was open alright and I did have a peek inside. The problem was that since it was Christmas there was mass going on the entire day. I went by there four or five times and each time there was a mass that prevented me from going in and have a good look at the interior.
My favorite when it comes to architecture in Morelia is not in the city centre but just outside - namely an aqueduct. This aqueduct was built in the 18th century when the city had a shortage of water. I simply love old aqueducts. They always look great!
After Morelia I made a short stop in a town called Patzcuaro. Patzcuaro also traces its roots back to the colonial days but this town is very different from Morelia. Where Morelia looked like a very wealthy town with large houses built
Cathedral in Morelia
There was one place where I really wanted to go in but couldn't - the cathedral. The cathedral was open and I did have a peek inside but there was mass going on from stone Patzcuaro to me looked more like a poor distant relative to Morelia. The houses were lower and many details were made from wood rather than stone and so on. But that didn't in any way make Patzcuaro a less interesting town. On the contrary I liked Patzcuaro better than Morelia.
After Patzcuaro I went to a city named Uruapan. Uruapan is not very interesting to be honest but there are a few interesting places in and around town that I wanted to see. I will write about those in both this and the next entry on the blog.
In Uruapan they have a strong candidate for the title the Narrowest House in the World. It is roughly 1,5 meters wide on the outside and slightly narrower yet on the inside. It is three stories high and several meters deep so it is not as small as you might think. If you only think of the floor area of the house then I have lived in apartments smaller than this house. But the fact that it is not much more than one meter wide on the inside makes it a strange house. The house is furnitured but
nobody lives in it. A young man living across the street let me inside the house to have a look. It was fun to see how they have found solutions so they could use the space in the house as much as possible. "Compact living" is not the correct word to describe it. "Sandwich living" is much better.
The last thing I am going write about in this entry is a waterfall named Cascada de Tzararacua. Actually there are two waterfalls at this place Cascada de Tzararacua and Cascada de Tzararacuita. Most people only visit the first one because it is the biggest and the one that is easiest to access. I went to both because I had plenty of time on my hands. The small one was just as nice as the big one. The best thing about Cascada de Tzararacuita was that I could have it to myself. At that time of the day I was the only one who had bothered to walk over to that one.
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Chilischampoo?!
Wow, chilischampo? Det skulle jag velat testa! Jag har ju chokladschampoo just nu :-) För övrigt var nyårsnatten fantastisk: fullmåne och de där 30 centimetrarna snö, eller mer. Hur ljust ute som helst, rena sommarnatten, när man stannade inne där brasan värmt upp en :-) Det där huset skulle jag också kunna tänka mig, och så får man ha en trädgård dit bekanta får hälsa på :-D