Monday 28 October 2013
Another
ruin today. El Tajin. This time down in the rainforest. OMG, it was so hot and humid, we skirted from
one bit of shade to the next. Very
cool. Just beautiful.
Then as we were leaving we were treated to a special Danza de los Voladores which means Dance of the Flyers. It is a traditional pre-Columbian thing where these crazy bastards tie themselves to a 30 meter pole and come down as the rope unwinds. Once they're flying on the rope it's probably not that dangerous, but climbing that pole with no safety harness - oh yeah; crazy bastards!
Going
down the freeway to our next destination, but the freeway wasn’t complete and
they directed back down a mountain road.
20kmh for 1 hour. Gee that was
fun.
Got to
our hacienda, Santa Maria Regla, after dark.
They didn’t know we were coming but they had a room so we were able to
stay. Bit of muddle as they didn’t speak
any English and our Spanish is not so good.
This hacienda was an old silver mine from the seventeenth century with all
old tunnels and fountains and an old church. Had some drinks and then went out after dark
on our own with only our headlamps exploring the grounds. Totally cool.
Next morning we could see it in the light and wow, it was really
beautiful.
