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Photos from Central Mexico, 2004

February 13, 2014 Erim Leave a Comment

I love Mexico, there’s no two ways about it. From the people to the food to the geographical diversity and physical beauty, it is a fantastic country.

It’s also often misunderstood by Americans, or underestimated. Unfortunately, most Americans only know Mexico as a vacation destination. This means they only know it as Cancún or Ixtapa or Puerto Vallarta, and not San Cristóbal de Las Casas or Zacatecas or San Blas; or the many small communities where Mexicans live and work.

I’ve been lucky enough to travel around the country quite a bit. I’ve spent most of that time down in the southern states; Oaxaca, the Yucatán, Chiapas, etc. But back in 2004 I made a trip to the central region north of Mexico City.

There’s some interesting colonial history up there, much of it consisting of Spaniards using the locals as slave labor in their silver mines, where they died in truly horrific numbers. Many tons of silver came out of here to enrich the Spanish Empire at the time. And, it is of course the heart of the old Aztec empire.

Enjoy.

Guanajuato

guanajuato street guitarist
guanajuato front door
guanajuato flowers on a wall
guanajuato cathedral
guanajuato buildings
guanajuato bar fly

Zacatecas

chicken on a motorcycle in zacatecas
convent doorway and dome in zacatecas
convent wall in zacatecas
hall of convent in zacatecas
more zacatecas masks
old bell tower in zacatecas
old cathedral in zacatecas
purlple flowers in zacatecas
zacatecas masks

Real de Catorce

bridge in real de catorce
burro looking over rock wall in real de catorce
door and plaster in real de catorce
electric meter on rock wall in real de catorce
front door in real de catorce
real de catorce burron
real de catorce horse
real de catorce market
real de catorce yucca
ruins near real de catorce
ruins of real de catorce
ruins outside real de catorce
virgin mary in real de catorce

 

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