Guanajuato

Wow, after spending the last day and a half in Guanajuato, I can easily say it’s the best place we’ve stopped so far. It’s an incredibly beautiful city - in fact it could easily be any number of ancient European cities. Guanajuato was founded in the 1500’s by the Spaniards and flourished after the establishment of silver mines in the area. In the 1800’s, the city became one of the birthplaces of the Mexican Revolution. The Spanish colonial architecture has also been beautifully preserved. The Guanajuato river used to flow through the town, but it was diverted and the old underground channels were turned into roads. The feeling of driving underneath a city through a series of tunnels like this really has to be experienced. The strangest and perhaps most famous of the attractions in Guanajuato is the Mummy Museum. The local soil has a unique mineral composition which causes a number of the bodies buried to become naturally mummified. This was discovered in the 1860’s when bodies were exhumed because their surviving relatives couldn’t pay the fee on their grave-spots. Guanajuato decided to make capitalize on the situation by opening a museum where you can view the mummies! It’s really pretty strange. I’ll post some photos of Guanajuato and the mummy museum soon.

In other news, the latch holding the tire rack onto the back of my Jeep decided to sheer off. Luckily, Scott is handy (and clever) and managed to rig a temporary replacement.