New Year's Eve left us with a fierce helping of stir-crazy, so we went to our favorite local natural area -- Desierto de los Leones. We explored a new part, a trail that went up to a string of hermitages. These were pretty swanky places for a hemit, many had courtyards and multiple rooms. They were all connected by an aquaduct feeding them with water from the mountain, and we followed that back up to where the real trails were.
The ironic thing about this trip was that we were originally planning on hiking at Ajusco -- the federal district's highest point. But we were warned that there have been lots of banditos there, and not to go unless you knew it would be busy. So we went here, and this morning as I was looking online for a new trail for us, a number of people warned about banditos here too. So we decided to just be extra cautious and I only carried the little camera.
Up on the mountain, there have been numerous forest fires in the past decades, and they looked like Tree Cemeteries.
We sat and had lunch by a bubbling brook, and off in the distance, we could hear something that could have been a dinosaur. Or maybe a cow. Then suddenly, we heard it again and it was about 20 feet away. This was the only thing scary that we met on the trail. No banditos.
New Year's Eve left us with a fierce helping of stir-crazy, so we went to our favorite local natural area -- Desierto de los Leones. We explored a new part, a trail that went up to a string of hermitages. These were pretty swanky places for a hemit, many had courtyards and multiple rooms. They were all connected by an aquaduct feeding them with water from the mountain, and we followed that back up to where the real trails were.
The ironic thing about this trip was that we were originally planning on hiking at Ajusco -- the federal district's highest point. But we were warned that there have been lots of banditos there, and not to go unless you knew it would be busy. So we went here, and this morning as I was looking online for a new trail for us, a number of people warned about banditos here too. So we decided to just be extra cautious and I only carried the little camera.
Up on the mountain, there have been numerous forest fires in the past decades, and they looked like Tree Cemeteries.
We sat and had lunch by a bubbling brook, and off in the distance, we could hear something that could have been a dinosaur. Or maybe a cow. Then suddenly, we heard it again and it was about 20 feet away. This was the only thing scary that we met on the trail. No banditos.
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