Tepoztlán, located between Mexico City and Cuernavaca, is one of Mexico's 32 Pueblos Magicos. We've tried to get there before, but DF keeps sucking us back in, and we can never seem to get onto the Cuernavaca Highway, but find ourselves back at the Zócalo. This time we came prepared with our new GPS unit, and though we drove all over DF before we escaped, it did eventually get us out of town and on our way.Tepoztlán is famous for being in a lovely location, being the birthplace of the god Quetzalcoatl, and having a temple/pyramid to the god of pulque (some sort of fermented drink). The New Agers have set up shop here, and you can additionally enjoy a lovely spa experience, buy incense, and have your aura photographed.
Saturday is Market Day, so in addition to crystals and the such, on the other side of the square you could do your everyday shopping. The butcher shops were the best. Zorra pointed out a strange blemish on one of the pieces of meat hanging there -- yep, Bessie's eye.
And now time for lunch.
Our main purpose in coming was to visit the pyramid. My map said to follow this road, and we'd walk right up to it. In the above photo, can you see the pyramid? 
We walked to the base of the cliffs/mountains, but we were dressed for Mexico City (long sleeves, turtle-neck) and had a sleepy baby, and frankly didn't feel up to literally climbing up the cliff face. So we went back for ice cream.
Popo on the way home.
Ok, the butcher shop photos made my stomach lurch a bit but what a cool little town! Is this the place where you can buy all of the polished rocks everywhere?
ReplyDeletePolished rocks? Like this? They do have lots of crystals-polished stones-Asian stuff. And good Mexican prices too. Though it felt weird buying a Buddha in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteit is a long walk up and a long walk down but I am happy we did it when we visited...even the kids climed all the way up, took about 2 hours up and another hour and 20 minutes to come back down
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