Magic Towns

Elenita and I love to travel around Mexico and visit little friendly towns. We read magazines specific to travel around Mexico. Mexico created a classification called Pueblo Mágico's. This is a designation that chooses towns with special character, history and beauty. Reading one magazine about travel in our neighboring state of  Querétaro we discovered a new pueblo mágico called Cadereyta. We decided to visit Cadereyta with our friend Lena visiting from Santa Cruz, California.

Of course living in a Catholic society some of the most famous buildings in these towns are the churches. Cadereyta is about a 1 1/2 hour drive from San Miguel. The church above on the left was constructed in 1754.

We visited the churches and walked through the plaza stopping at vendor stalls admiring some of the art work for sale.

Look what we discovered at the end of the plaza a vendor selling sweets and nuts.

We purchased some snacks and continue on exploring this beautiful this little town with amazingly clean streets. The people we met during our exploration were wonderful and very helpful. At one point we walked into a cultural center which was once an old Hacienda. Elenita and Lena walked ahead while I was taking photos. When I started looking for them I discovered they had gone into the back. As I entered the room they were in I discovered an amazing show. There was an artist working on a portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe. He was making it out of little seeds. The difference with this artist is that he had now hands and he was creating this master piece using a tool in is mouth to pick up the seeds. On the walls of the room were many different oil paintings that were also works of this artist. This was an amazing site to say the least.

Our adventure now took us to a beautiful botanical garden in another part of the town.  This botanical garden is maintain by a University in Querétaro and displays different levels of regional desert landscape.  This part of Querétaro is the bottom part of the Chihuahuan desert.

Our travels will continue.