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!