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Monarch Butterfly, Dead Unfortuntely The only monarch butterfly I saw up close in the Chincoá...
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Bucolic Countryside Shot taken from the bus, the mountains that house the monarch...
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Backing Up Down a Narrow Road En route to the Chincoá Monarch Butterfly Reservation. Very...
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Chincua Curious, colourful little huts at the entrance of the Butterfly Reservation....
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Colourful Casita The guides who take you through the forests to the butterflies live here....
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Chincua Horses So you don't want to take the exhausting 5-7 km. hike up the mountain? No...
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Forest Shrine Chincua. Lovingly tended, from what I could see.
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Poverty Ain't Pretty Well, at least the owner has no front lawn to mow on a Sunday!
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Steep Curve Ahead ... and another ... and another ... and another. Well, of course, you're...
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Part of the Ceiling Part of the walls of the richly decorated Church of the Nuestra...
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Trim Zoomed in on the trim of the Church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in...
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Morelia As Morelia itself is a very old city in Mexico, dating from the 1500's,...
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The Shine Shiny with use, that is. Stairs going up to the 2nd floor of a very...
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Night Tour One of the illuminated churches visited on a night tour, given by bus,...
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Arches, Aqueduct City of Morelia, beautifully lit up at night.
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Night Market Long tables where you sit beside strangers. All the good stuff from...
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Facade, Ex Convento de San Pablo The convent was completed in 1550 and the facade is absolutely...
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Detail, Exconvent, Yuriria Maxed out my zoom to see the detail on the facade of the Ex Convento...
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Moon Arising ... over one of the towers or turrets of the church in Yuriria.
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Bringing The Doll On the 5th of February the altar of this church is filled with dolls....
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Dream Tub Carefully hammered by hand, this magnificent copper tub in Santa Clara...
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Indian Corn Found this beauty in an old weigh scale, perhaps ready to be weighed, perhaps...
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Copper Pots & Bowls & Ewers ... ... and, I might add, whatever can be made in copper can be found in...
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The Grim Reaper Scythe made out of copper, of course. Santa Clara de Cobre
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Los Portales Santa Clara de Cobre. Pull up a chair, have a hot chocolate, a bowl of...
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Typical Street, Santa Clara de Cobre Wooden balconies, red-tiled roofs, white buildings, copper on display.
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Barber's Chair Anybody want a haircut or a shave and sit in this relic? Found in a real...
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Casa de los Once Patios The House of Eleven Patios (though now there are only 5) in Patzcuaro....
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Casa de Los Once Patios Another view of the interior. I loved the way they had a kind of 1 meter high...
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Tourists Taking Pics of Tourists Patzcuaro. Casa de los once patios.
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Templo del Sagrario Patzcuaro. Streams of cars and people blocking the road so had to do...
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Sun Setting on the Steeple Patzcuaro, the fading light of the day.
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Templo del Sagrario Stunning exconvent, built in the 17th century, part of a complex known as La...
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Side view Templo del Sagrario A bit dark, but I was shooting against the setting sun.
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The Daily Grind Patzcuaro. He was going around, offering these hand-made...
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Way of Stones Pebbles, rocks, cobbles, stones ... seems that's what the...
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Hospital Courtyard From the size, it must have been the house of a Marquis or other grand...
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Hanging Around Tupataro A very old church, a few houses, a pretty garden in the main square and folks...
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Stone Cross Tupataro. In front of the old church. A bit of mysterious red paint in the...
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Strange Art Zitacuaro. More than once have seen these empty plastic bottles placed on old...
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Malevolent Stare Lake Zitacuaro. Well, it looks malevolent in the photo, but he was part of a...
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Squash For Sale I think it was squash, but never found out the Spanish name, so don't know.
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Porch It must be nice to sit on this porch, accompanied by one's ancestors.
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