"Welcome" Tour

On Friday, the International Department at La Universidad Regiomontana treated us to a nice trip to El Museo del Desierto and Las Grutas de Garcia. The Museo del Desierto was nice but, to me, it was your typical museum with dinosaur replicas and such. The interesting part was the perspective from which the story was told. Everything in the museum was once a part of the desert area where the museum is located. I did think that was interesting. There was also a friendly gentleman making clay-hat figurines and neat stuff for free outside.

Here is the guy making clay things:

After the museum, we went to eat at a Buffet with typical Mexican food. Again, the food was great! The french students of course spoke entirely in French, a habit of which I am growing quite weary as I, of course, would like to hear mostly Spanish! Upon completion of our meal, we traveled to the Grutas de García. “Grutas” means caves and “García” is the town that they are in. The caves are enormous and were frankly awe-inspiring. I was very excited that we were going to tour a gigantic cave. Excitement of course turned to fear when I saw the cable-car that they nonchalantly informed me that my big-ol’ but would be riding to the Top of the Mountain! I don’t do heights people! I survived (conquered my fear!) with the rest of the group and we climbed the mountain in a Mexican cable-car. I was glad I did after seeing the view of the other mountains and the scenery. I was also grateful after pondering the alternative of a two-hour mountain climb! The temperature is really cool inside the caves which is a really good thing since there are over 700 steps inside to climb and descend.

Cable-Car:

The tour was heavy on formations that resembled various animals and plants (the Gorilla Head, the Camel, the Christmas Tree, etc.). YAY for caves!