Saturday, June 27, 2009

Arrival and First day touring Guanajuato

Arrival at the airport. I got my bags checked completely...of course...

We went up MANY steps in order to arrive at our cute and wonderful hostel. With the luggage I seriously got a good calve work out.


Some art at the restaurant we ate at: a Mexican celebrity...Frida Kahlo's auto portrait.


MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!


Here are two plazas that we visited in the city of Guanajuato. The plazas come alive, mariachis are playing, vendors, little kids selling chicle, young teenagers hang out. The plazas are central to the Mexican city of Guanajuato. What is special about this city is that there are many plazas and each have their own character and feel ;)


There is a legend to this street that towns people tell tourists and they also describe all the ways of kissing! The legend is that lovers lived right across the street from each other. The young girl was from a well off family and the young boy from a low class family (like many love stories). The balconies to their homes were built so close that they could kiss from their respective homes! This is where the guides described all sorts and ways to kiss to cite a few examples there wall the kisses described by the guides!

El beso monaguillo tocar la campanilla

El beso arabe salva ba saliva biene

The end of the legend is tragic, the father of the young girl could not stand the relationship of the couple and the legend says that he ended up killing both of them.
Taxi ride back to our hostel after a full day of touring the city.