Puebla

  
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We will leave here to meet up with our amigo, Armondo Montes in Toluca. He will help us navigating around the largest city in the world, Mexico City, to Puebla.  Puebla is another Colonial city. It is very large with beautiful buildings covered with hand painted tiles that they are famous for. We will tour the birthplace of our cars here in Puebla. Downtown around the zocolo is the most interesting area. At this time of year you will find lots of Day of the Dead figures and stacks of traditional sugar skulls for sell around the zocolo, but with 1.2 million people there is much traffic so we will stay in the nearby Cholula.  This is a university town with maybe the most beautiful churches in all Mexico. The largest pyramid ever built stands in the center of town with tunnels and excavation sites you can visit. Villas Arqueologicas (247-19-66) is a club-med with a French Restraunt, lush garden and pool, $53.  Suites San Juan (247-02-28) has parking that is open to the public during the day $18 -$21 with nice rooms with big beds. The Puebla area is the place where you want to try mole Pueblano.

Tue Oct. 30  We will tour the VW factory. The plans are still being worked out. We will then make our way to the Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, once a sugar plantation 25 miles from Cuernavaca. A true paridise. But watch out for "topes" on the way.

Links to more info:
Puebla Sightseeing 
Cholula (where we'll actually stay on Monday)