Real de Catorce

Village of 14?

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February 8th 2017
Here I am, sitting in my car in a village in central Mexico, Real de Catorce. The roads are not paved, there is narrow primitive tunnel through the mountain leading automobiles here, the only way in and out. It's nearly 10 pm, so I haven't met anyone except the guy taking 30 pesos at the tunnel entrance. I'll sleep here in Ole Mae, near the edge of what I assume to be an epic cliff (can't really s ... read more

North America » Mexico

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more