Monday, August 11, 2008

Morelia and Pátzcuaro and Janitzio and Santa Clara del Cobre

Yesterday and the day before that and the day before that I wasn't blogging because we were staying at a 150-year-old hotel and of course it didn't have Internet. According to the schedule, we got on the big UAQ (Universidad something that starts with "A" de Queretaro) bus at 8:00 a.m., Friday. Then, at 11:00 a.m. (You must remember that all the times are according to the schedule) we got to Morelia. At Morelia we went to a Government House that had a big mural of the story of Maximilian and the emperor before him and some other stories. There was also a strike for lower bus taxes outside the Government House. We also went to a museum that exhibited people from 3000 years ago that were teeny and animals from 3000 years ago that were also teeny. Then we had comida. We left for Pátzcuaro at 2:30 p.m. and got there at 3:30. We saw a really neat mural of the history of Mexico and some really cute horses that were the size of dogs. The horses were not in the mural, they were in the plaza. The next day after breakfast we went to a tourist boat harbor with lots of ducks and geese. Then we went in the boat over a lake to the island of Janitzio. Here is a picture of it:
See that big statue on the top? In case you haven't noticed, it's enormous. And we got to go up in the highest part! Here is a picture of the view from up there:
Amazing, isn't it? And that only part of it. The island was like a big tourist stand! They were selling double image paintings almost everywhere. Here is one of my favorites:
I don't think you need to have any help on it do you? Because if you can't see both of the images, just post a comment. Well I can't tell you everything, so how about just two videos of the copper hammering factory?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Neat!

The dual image picture reminds me of the famous "profiles-vase" sketch. See

http://www.questacon.edu.a/html/tg_p8a.htm