Guanajuato is not a huge party place, but if you want to party- its definatly available! Here we are in a popular bar in the central part of town. This is a group of my classmates. In retrospect, I dont remember their names. If anyone is reading this- that knows their names, then email me and I will write it up here.

By the way- Guanajuato is a very safe place (compared to anywhere in the US) I would walk home at like 3 or 4 AM by myself and never felt worried.

Me Gustaria la Cuidad de Guanajuato! Oh this has got to be one of my absolute favorite places. Guanajuato City is a very old Spanish Colonial town built into the mountains in Mexico. The state is also called Guanajuato. In January 2004, I spent two weeks there taking some Spanish classes and checking things out. This is my first trip by myself. I was a little nervous, but I got courage thinking of how Ling spent 6 months in Thailand by herself.

I hope you enjoy my pics from this lovely town. I certainly enjoyed being there. I highly reccomend anyone in Texas to go. Its closer to fly to San Leon then to fly to Los Angeles (from Houston). Once you get to San Leon its about an hour by taxi. Once you get to Guanajuato you dont need a car. I didnt even need to hail a cab once when I was there. Everyone walks.

This pic was taken from the top of a mountain by the statue Pipilar. In this pic you can see the Univesity of Guanajuato in the center.

The view from the top of the mountain was so beautiful. The change in altitude definatly caught be off guard a bit though. When we went up that high I could barely catch my breath (Houston is sea level). I felt like some 90 year old person who just did aerobics when I was trying to walk to the top.

Here I am with my two buddies, Tex (left) and Tom (right). These guys are from Manard, Texas. They had just finished school at A&M and were up there to learn Spanish and have an adventure. These guys are intelligent, fun, and perfect gentlemen. It was a pleasure hanging out with them!

So here we are in front of a beautiful cathedral. I apologize, but after seeing tons of beautiful cathedrals, you don't remember which one is called what.

 

This is the calle (street) that the school was on. This is pretty typical of what you would see walking through the town.

This is a building (old house I think) that I walked by each day to get from my house to school, the plaza, the bars or anywhere else I might have been going. There was a big orange cat that hung out on top of this house about 2/3rds of the time that I would walk by. I had an interesting relationship with this cat. When I would walk by, the cat would start meowing really load. So I would always stop and say hi ( in Spanish ) and the cat would act like it wanted tojump down but it was quite high up. I dont know if the cat was hungry or just liked attention from people. Towards the end of my stay in Guanajuato I threw a doughnut up there to the cat, and the cat seemed to really like doughnuts because it ate it right away. I'm dorky.

This is the family I lived with during my short and sweet stay. This is the woman and her grand daughter. She has a very large house and hosts students through out the year from all different countries. The little girl, Camilla, and myself played alot. She was great for my Spanish practice because our speaking skills were about on the same level! Sometimes, when I was taking my siesta I would wake up to her in my room playing or she would come in to wake me up to play. She used to always tell me "Tu chica mala!" and in return I would tell her "Tu chica bonita!" It was alot of fun.