Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes was stop #2 on our trek. Its about three hours north of Guanajuato and is famous for its hotsprings and bullfights, of which we partook in neither of events-none of us are big fans of killing animals for sports. But anyway, the city was very interesting. We arrived late the night of independence day and our hostel owner was incredibly cool. He showed us around and took us out to the famous bar and grill to toast to independence day. We enjoyed the festival there and were glad to celebrate independence day Mexican style. My friend Holly woke up really sick the next morning, she ate a bad avacado from the farmers market the night before and paid for it! luckily she recovered quite quickly. The downtown area of Aguascalientes is very quaint, it has the most beautiful garden I have ever seen in the center of the city. Long pathways with beautiful trees, tropical flowers and park benches. We took a bunch of photos and hung around the downtown area for the day. There were some beautiful churches and another cool cafe that we took advantage of downtown. We sat out on the patio and people watched for a large part of the morning. In the afternoon we went over to the Museo de los Muertos, hosted by Universidad Autonomia de Aguascalientes. It was pretty interesting, a snapshot of how the significance of death in the role of Mexicans from the beginning of Amerindian civilization, thru the conquest, the revolution and life today. The was some very peculiar and fascinating art at the end of the museum as well. The whole exhibition was inside an all-glass building that was stained red so that when you looked outside it had a really wierd eery look. We pretty much had the city to ourselves that day, everyone else was still recovering from independence day. We enjoyed the sights but were ready to go our next stop-the city was nice downtown but the neighborhood where our hostel was (seen in the last pic), is a bit sketchy. More of a modern city with its modern problems. We were glad to stop by though and thought the timing was perfect.