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| Type | Name | Description | Service Provider | Cost | Kms | To Date | Total | Notes | Actions |
| Sight See | El Cerrito Pyramid | $0.00 | |||||||
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| Type | Name | Service Provider | Confirmation | Location | Cost | Notes | Actions |
| Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada | Air BnB | Santiago de Querétaro | $607.92 |
Located in the oldest neighborhood of the historic center and next to the Temple of the Cross, emblematic site of Queretaro's history, as well as the viewpoint and famous arches, plazas, bars, and restaurants.
The CANARIAN room is located within "La Encantada “, a 17th-century house in El Barrio más antigua del Centro Histórico, a 5-minute walk from Los Arcos. Nearby you will find bars, restaurants, markets, gyms, shopping and sports malls, history and culture. |
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Trip Log
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We started the day with breakfast (Guacamole Toast) at Las Palma (an Elissa discovery).
We were going to take a random cab out to El Cerrito, but we had communication problems with the first two cabs that we tried to flag down, so instead we texted Cesar, our cabbie who took us to San Miguel, and he came right away and took us out to El Cerrito, which is in a town on the outskirts of Queretaro called El Pueblito. Elissa took the opportunity to negotiate a ride out to the airport on Tuesday from Cesar. Yay for Cesar! El Cerrito was very interesting. We could walk up to it, but, like many Mesoamerican pyramids, they no longer allow people to climb all over it. I agree 100% with that decision. After we got a good eye-full of the pyramid itself, Elissa discovered more leaf-cutter ants, and we spent several minutes watching and photographing them. After El Cerrito, we decided to walk to the Chopo (Covid testing clinic) about 1.5km from there. We inquired about Covid tests for our return voyages to Canada. Chopo clinics are walk-ins (no appointment needed), the antigen tests cost 600 pesos (about $45CAD), and we found out that there's a Chopo really close to where we're staying. After we found the Chopo, we wanted to find a place to try and watch the far-end (arrivals) of our nightly bird-o-clock. We've been hoping to see the birds arriving at their nightly tree. That was not to be, however. We tried looking at the intersection that Elissa had been given by a biologist friend-of-a-friend, but it was a nightmare highway interchange. We thought maybe Centro Universitario might be a good spot, so we walked up there. Yeahhhhhhh.... no. Not so much. So, we walked up to Rio Queretaro, thinking we might find a place for dinner where we could face the rio and keep an eye on the ficus trees (where the birds supposedly roost), but that was a bust, too. We ended up going for dinner at the plaza near where we're staying. It's really close to the big church that, every night, rings their bells incessantly, and then sets off firework explosions (not the pretty twinkly kind... just the boom-ey kind). It was REALLY loud in the plaza, and there were a lot of children playing nearby when we realized that large pieces, particularly long sticks, from the fireworks were falling in the plaza and the children were collecting them and playing with them as they fell. Yikes. It's all fun and games..... All-in-all we walked about 12km back from El Cerrito to our "homes" over the course of the day. Something like this: Map |
Photos
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Breakfast at Las Palma
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Breakfast at Las Palma - I blend
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At El Cerrito Pyramid
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Brent explores El Cerrito Pyramid
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El Cerrito Pyramid
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El Cerrito Pyramid
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Brent and Elissa at the altar thingy near El Cerrito Pyramid
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Elissa found us more leaf-cutter ants
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Watching leaf-cutter ants
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Rail-less staircase, going up multiple stories
Not a staircase I'm super interested in climbing -
Loved this building