Mexico - Winter 23/24 : 2024-01-06 : Circus recon and Church Tour #2

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Bed and Breakfast La Encantada AirBnB $1180.03 Host: Sophie is in WhatsApp
Check-in via door combination to be provided. One combination for front door, one for room door.
Paid half 2023/01/25. Other half due scheduled for Dec 21, 2023
Free cancellation before 2:00 p.m. on Dec. 29. Cancel before check-in at 2:00 p.m. on Jan. 3 for a partial refund.
Laundry on-site
Luggage drop


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We’ve decided to go to the circus on Friday evening. Since we haven’t got a car, I wanted to make sure we had an effective and affordable method of getting to and from the circus grounds before we bought tickets. So, this morning we rode the 134 bus (using our spanky new QROBus Tarjetas) up to the grounds, which are behind a huge shopping mall. We had a look at the big top which is up but empty at this time.

We then took the 134 back again but got off early to get a bit of a walk in. We had a look at Templo de Santo Domingo from the street and went to the Mercado that we frequented in 2022 (Mercado La Cruz) and had lunch at a little stand there called Doña Beni.
Tonight we decided to finish our church tour and then go to Jardín Zenea, which is the bustling park with nightly dancing. Things didn’t go quite as we planned.

We saw most of the churches on the east side of centro last night, so tonight was for the western churches. We saw Templo de la Congregacion de Guadalupe and Templo de San Antonio (among others).

While we were at Catedral de Querétaro, we were approached by a random guy (Robert, an American who has been living in Querétaro for about two years), who asked if we were interested in looking at churches. When I answered in the affirmative, he just started on about the best ones to see, and then he took us on an impromptu tour to show us some stuff.

There is an arts center beside Santa Rosa de Viterbo that Brent and I ignored today that actually houses a small archaeological site where the city’s aqueduct actually ends. Robert wanted to show us one of his other favorite churches, so off we trotted and he took us to Templo de San Antonio, which he knows by a different name. I told him we’d already seen it that night and it was my favorite so far! I can’t wait for Santa Rosa de Viterbo to be open on Tuesday so Brent and I can go back there and see it, plus the arts center. I also hope it works out for us to get together sometime soon with Robert and his wife.


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