Photos from Zacatecas

Monday off - Long weekend in Zacatecas, a state north from Guanajuato. Beautiful place, have a look:

City of Zacatecas:

The cathedral.

Pierre drawing

 View from the hostel

Photos from round and about in the center:

 Tacos dorados - it tasts GREAT !

another one of Lulú's great poses :p

Apparently I have great poses too.

Going to Guadalupe:

Paleteria is a place where they sell icecream, and this one was supposedly danish, I asked why danish, could be that the owner was danish or something, but the girl working there had no idea why, so no story there.

Jerez, great cowboy town!

The guys rode around on horses with their tipical mexican sombreros and cowboyboots.

Even the boys took part

All the kids walked around in cowboyboots.

They also had a great clown

And these really beautiful things made only from car tires.

We hadn't taken a groupphoto, so we ended up taking it in the busterminal waiting for the bus to go back to Guanajuato:

Visiting a ghost town

The university arranged a trip for the exchange students this Saturday, to go to Mineral de Pozos in the north of the state of Guanajuato. It is a ghost town which means that the population of the town left from one day to another at some point (I can't remember when it was :s). So you can imagine that there is not a lot of people around these days either:

As you can see, no people, and also it looks like a real western movie, or at least I think so. It was extremely dry, lots of cactus everywhere and houses like I somehow imagined it would look like here in Mexico.
So you can imagine that our "small" group of students kind of wasn't such a small amount of people, compared to how many other people we saw around in the streets.

Part of the trip was visiting a small mine in the area. It was a gold/silver mine, and we even got to go explore. I thought it would be interesting, but I really didn't like it at all, this felling of claustophobia hit me as soon as I got down there, and I just had to get out as soon as posible. That's why the only picture I have of me in the mine is climbing up ;)

dirt with small bits of gold in it. 

This is something like 2g of pure gold, 2000 pesos.

A mexican guy showed us some precolonial instruments, really cool:

And as if the instruments weren't fascinating enough, his store was located in this great house, with a beautiful garden: 

These two pictures go out to you mom, wouldn't you like a sink and a mirror like these? I know I would!


As a final stop on the tour we visited this lavenderfarm, it smelled incredible!