Taxco

Today in the morning we checked out from our AirBNB in CDMX, took an Uber to Taxqueña bus station. We easily found our bus to Taxco, checked our luggage and 2.5 hours later we were in a totally different lanscape, culture, colors, food and smells. On the way:

Taxco is in Guerrera and is an extremely hilly town famous for its silver and jewlery industry. This is also the overwhelming part of it, in the center it's difficult to quietly walk without people trying to pull the visitor into their silver shop. Even official looking tour guides tell you some information and immediately afterwards recommend a silver shop. So we're learning how to ignore them. Sellers of all kind of touristic objects are also sticky. But this is mainly on the main square and its vicinity. Other things that were not as expected: no Uber or Didi in this town. You have to waive a taxi, negotiate the price and go. Address as a concept doesn't really work here either, the driver just looks an the Google Streetview on my phone and understand where to go. There are extremely lot of very old VW Beatle cards, all somehow manipulated to have automatic gears. It's really impressive how these operate in these very steep streets.

We visited the church on the main square:

We visited the pre-hispanic mine. This was a really interesting site. The mine was already operational when the Spanish arrived. Since there was significant amount of silver, gold and other metals mined there, they decided not to let the Spanish know about it and sealed its entrance. It was accidentally discovered in 2013 during some construction works. We descended into the mine with protective helmets, listened to some stories in Spanish and climbed quite a lot of stairs down and up.

For dinner we went to a restaurant where locals eat and had the local speciality of Pozole: a corn-chicken souped with avocado and crispy pork-belly (chicharon).