Real de Catorce

First week of April 2019 and we didn’t have a road trip all together yet. We decided to head to San Luis de Potosi, in the village called Real de Catorce. The name comes from the world ‘Real’, referring to its mining history, and ‘catorce’ referring to the 14 thieves that were hiding in there. The name of the village changed a few times in history, with the origins ‘Real de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Guadalupe de Álamo’ to ‘Real de la Purísima Concepción de Catorce’ and finally to ‘Real de Catorce’.

We were staying in an Airbnb owned by an American woman who moved to Mexico, particularly to this tiny desert house. As a matter of fact, Real De Catorce is also a spiritual destination. It is considered a sacred place by the Huichol Indians, who trek from their homes in Nayarit state on the Pacific Coast to participate in Peyote Rituals. A special variety of hallucinogenic peyote cactus grows in this high desert. This also attracts peyote heads from around the world. On any given day, many of the foreigners you see on the street are stoned. We were not there for the Peyote though, and were still able to engage in pretty fun activities. For a price of 100 pesos (5 EUR) we were able to rent horses, and this was insane. If you ride a horse in a touristic destination in Europe, those horses are trained to move slowly, and you are always accompanied by a guide. In our case, this wasn’t quite the case, and we were allowed to ride our horses basically at will, and it was a lot of fun. We climbed with them over the Cerro del Quemado, for the wixaritari people, this is a sacred place and you can literally feel the energy coming out from the ground.

Mexico City

During this year I spent a lot of times in Mexico City. I once went there with friends, and we enjoyed travelling around, I also came back two times alone, as I found Mexico City and some of his areas a great place where I could study preparing for my end of year exam. I really appreciated the Bohemien vibes of some areas of the city.

La condesa

This is definetely my most fav area of the city, wide roads full of trees, Art Decò style buildings and an overall very elegant neighborhood . I personally enjoyed the offer of coffee bars where I could stay few hours long and study while drinking coffee and eating.

During my days of exam preparation in CDMX I decided to have a delicious snack in what is believed to be the best churreria in the city. I’ve tried several places but be assured that you’ll find the best ones in here- pretty close to city center.

I’m sure you’ll be wondering where to find the best tacos in the city.. this is a question pretty tough to answer, as you’ll probably be eating tacos quite frequently and this is a tough question to answer, tacos are part of Mexico’s cultural heritage and I thought it hard to find bad tacos. Nevertheless I can say the taco place I enjoyed the most was

I remember watching carton network as a child, and if you did it too I’m pretty sure you remember Mucha Lucha, one of the most famous cartoons of the channel

Mucha Lucha is actually based on the Mexican Lucha libre, born in the 20th Century and now one of the most famous entertainment activity in the city. It is so characteristic that in 2018 Lucha Libre was declared an intangible cultural heritage of Mexico City. There are many arenas where you could watch these wrestling matches, we saw ours at Arena Coliseo