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Dolores Hidalgo Dolores Hidalgo is the birth place of the Mexican revolution, Talavera pottery and crazy ice cream. Atotonilco was the second town in Miguel Hidalgo’s march toward independence. We drove out the back way from San Miguel near San Miguel Viejo not quite sure how to find Atotonilco. It turns out it’s right off the Dolores Hidalgo highway but made a nice country Continue reading -> Dolores Hidalgo and Atotonilco Enanitos Toreros – Midget Bullfighters There are at least five or six groups of Midget Bullfighters in Mexico. I’m not sure who the group was that visited Melaque except that there’s a foto of their poster below. Other groups have a much larger show but they may have been down-sized for our small town. This is really a family and kids party with Continue reading -> Enanitos Toreros – Midget Bullfighters A Mazamitla, Tapalpa, San Gabriel (Venustiano Carranza) loop from Colima This trip is from March back when there were still snow-birds around wanting to take short trips thru Mexico. Glen and I spent two nights in the Colima area before taking this drive. We first headed up highway 54 and veered off to Mazamitla via the back way thru Tuxpan and up the valley – very nice drive past sugar Continue reading -> Mazamitla, Tapalpa, San Gabriel loop from Colima Xochimilco – Mexico City Xochimilco is a south-eastern suburb of Mexico City. Mainly a commercial and tourist center, it is famous for its canals lined with poplars and flowers (Xochimilco is a Native American word meaning “plantation of flowers”). In pre-Hispanic times the Xochimilcas built soil-covered rafts (chinampas) in Lake Xochimilco on which they grew vegetables and flowers to be shipped to Mexico City on the canals. Eventually Continue reading -> The gardens of Mexico City Ex-Hacienda Nogueras Tour of the old sugar mill near Comala, Colima – Mexico Nogueras is a small ex-sugar mill town a few kilometers east of Comala in the state of Colima. It’s home to the Alejandro Rangel museum, an Eco Park and the Ex-Hacienda itself that is being refurbished We got a tour behind the walls of the Ex-Hacienda and parts of the old sugar mill that are being restored with Continue reading -> Ex-Hacienda Nogueras 
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