The following morning we had breakfast overlooking the square. Afterwards, we visited a traditional Mexican indoor market. Rosalie tasted and bought some Chongo, which is a sweetened cheese. Then we went and checked out.
There is a lot of travelling on some of these tours but this was broken up with frequent bathroom stops and meal breaks. The fields on either side of the road were mostly overgrown with agave. As we moved along there were lots of greenhouses growing peppers. Further along, there was nothing but sugar cane.
Just outside of Colima, we stopped at a beautiful restaurant right alongside another lake. The food eaten that day was quail, rabbit and salmon. Rosalie and I had the salmon but got samples of quail and rabbit from our friends.
As the tour got closer to Colima, Florencio took us to see a bull ring that’s built and disassembled every year. It’s built for the annual horse show in Colima, (our next tour, but next year). Only certain families can work on it and the tradition has been going on for 167 years. It’s all built by hand and the only measuring tools are a stick about a meter and a half long with four marks on it and various lengths of rope to mark out the circles. The amazing thing is that it holds five thousand people and they have never had an accident.
And so another tour came to an end. We are rarely disappointed with these tours and this was another great one. I particularly love the old-style Mexican hotels that we stay in. Next year, as well as going back to Tequila by ourselves, we plan to go to the horse show. It’s a three-day event and Florencio will be our guide again.
You are discovering more and more neat places in your Southern home – we love the read so thanks for sharing, hugs, Michelle ♥♥