Before leaving San Miguel De Allende area, we visited a hot springs park, Escondido Place. We finally found the hot water pools under fiberglass rooftops, and through this tiny tunnel.
The view from the outside of the tunnels and chain of pools.
This huge green insect showed up on the sidewalk. It was nearly six inches long!
Another set of hot pools were open to the air.
Tiny entrances and tunnels from one to another made is unusual. Here Jason floats at the entrance to the open air pools.
The black square left of center is te tunnel to the next pool.
Karen getting ready to go thru to the next pool.
The final pool was like a rock cave with a domed roof.
A hole in the top of the cave let in some sunlight.
Looking out from the cave pool.
Such a pretty setting and there weren't many people there.
The tunel connecting two hot pools. The water was such a lovely color, too.
The natural hot springs didn't smell like mineral springs; they were just hot thermal waters.
Refreshed, we headed further into the mountains, up and over some pretty steep hills and curvy roads up to one of the world's largest monoliths, the Pena de Bernal. Our view of it as we drove into town.
The peak is behind the big letters, still decorated in Christmas themes.
Sweet breads are a speciality, as are candies. This sign translates to Nun's Farts, a dessert sweet. Must be light.
Bernal boasts a large Mask Museum. There were masks from all over the world and many local ones from different parts of Mexico. Many of them had scary faces depicted.
The mountain peak of Bernal from a high road in town.
This sweets museum turned out to be just a candy shop. But we sat on the front wall and devoured a loaf of sweet guava cheese bread. Oh my.
Local ladies in traditional colorful attire.
A trolley car in Bernal.
Jason and one of his big girls.
Smooching on the street bench.
I loved the bright colors of the church in Bernal.
An interesting building in town.
A statue outside of a restaurant called El Negrito.
Ladies making blue corn tortillas on the sidewalk. They stuffed them with any combo of the ingredients in the big clay pots.
Another statue on the block.
Jason admiring a cart full of tulip plants being wheeled through town for sale.
Another Cervantes statue.
The famous Route 66 reaches all the way to Bernal, Mexico, at least in advertising.
A detailed mask, also called El Negrito, in the mask museum.
More masks.
We saw some like this in Vanuatu.
A jaguar is another popular icon here.
The mustache is a set of bull horns.
Metal donkey sculptures in front of a fancy hotel up on the hillside.
Interesting patterns on a cactus leaf growing by a wall.
A large tequila bottle outside a mezcal shop.
Bernal even had a rock shop with this glass and quarts grotto entrance. They had volcanic glass in many different colors.
Inside the shop, were these pretty lavender and green crystals.
The brilliant blue is natural on these minerals.
A pretty view from a spot near the top of the town.
Looking down on that pretty church.
A space alien stopped for a pee at this bathroom.
The next day, the designs on the big letters had changed to hearts for February.
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