Post #3885552
2026-07-17 02:47 UTC
Yesterday was a long day: Real de Catorce is 3+ hours from the city of San Luis Potosí, and almost 9,000 feet altitude. The last 24 km of this trip is a cobblestone road. The guide who drove us (his Nissan Versa did much better with the climb and cobblestones than I would have thought) said that the government repaved it recently, in cobblestones, because it adds to the charm and the theme of the old mining area. He paused and said, “It’s really beautiful but definitely impractical.”
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@Bronwyn@sfba.social 2026-07-17 02:49
This tour was not offered in English at all; I think this part of Mexico would be somewhat difficult to navigate without speaking Spanish. I get much better in Spanish after a few days in Mexico (if I’m somewhere where people don’t constantly try to speak English to me) Because of the altitude here, it gets cold at night and quite cold in the winter, with snow. This is the first church I’ve ever seen without marble/stone floors and the guide said they’re wooden because it helps keep the heat in