Live Ad for Drugstore
Mimes on Plazuela Goita
Story Teller at Crafts Market
Clowns on Plazuela Goita - City sponsors daily entertainment
Do you think . . .????
Taking photos with the public
Santa makes an early visit
Guests at hostel
Front of Hostel
Just an interesting old house
Walkway through luxury hotel
Street in front of Alameda
Small Plaza
Reception area at hostel
Guests in hostel Kitchen
Guests with hostel owner (right), barhopping - an old hostel/Zacatecas custom
Cathedral at night
Cathedral
Callejon (street barred to vehicles because of topography) next to hostel
Guest's daughter (whole families stay at hostels (I didn't know that before)
Santa and Friend
Making Mole Poblano a very labor intensive traditional dish
A couple of the ladies and one employee of the hostel did the work, the rest of us just chipped in and enjoyed.
Guests' kids
A view of La bufa from hostel. There is a played gold mine there that has been restored for the tourists. More on that further along
Hostel terrace
Lara the hostel's mascot
Friends on steps next to hostel. The door on the right up the stairs is the entrance to what will be my apartment
Small upperscale hotel close to hostel.
Cafe in patio of old house.
Interior of cathedral
Candy vendor outside cathedral
Street that passes in front of cathedral
This character, seated in the side entrance of the cathedral is supposedly a master of lightening fast pencil portraits.
Outdoor vendors near public market
About to enter Eden Mine at La Bufa
Claim jumper. That's the pistol he's grabbing. Women rub the belly for good luck and healthy kids.
reproduction of the way the indians carried the ore out of the mine.
That's iron pyrites, fool's gold
Aerial tram that crosses the valley to La Bufa and the mine.
La Bufa from the other side of the valley
Zacatecas from La Bufa - notice the clear air! What little there is of it at 8900ft.
Approaching La Bufa from the tram. The tower is a state meteorological station
Vendors at La Bufa
Vendors' kids
Chapel at La Bufa
Breakfast at the public market
with hostel inhabitants
Little virgin please (plis) take good care of me
hostel manager's daughter
