Patzcuaro [2] at 2150 meters, 5 hours by bus from Mexico City, is little changed from the colonial times – every building red and white adobe, all red terracotta tiled roofs, many plazas and churches and no graffiti. It has…
Around Patzcuaro
Quiroga is famous for slow cooked pork so we had to go for the carnitas. It’s 30 minutes by bus around Lake Patzcuaro [2] and named after Vaco de Quiroga (first Bishop of Michoacán). Tzintzuntzan (Place of Humming Birds) was…
Night of the Dead – Patzcuaro
Leaving at 10 pm and returning at 6 am on the Noche de Muertos (Night of the Dead), we went to the cemeteries on the Lake Patzcuaro [2] Islands of Janitzio (popular but overcrowded with Mexican tourists, party town) and…