Tepoztlán

This was my first weekend that I had time to go out and exploring, so a friend and I decided to take a bus to the city of Tepoztlán. It's only about a 30 minute bus ride from Cuernavaca. On the bus ride there, we passed many street vendors selling tortillas, corn on the cob, and fresh fruit juice. We also saw horses in the streets and the mountains of Tepoztlán in the distance.

Temple of Tepozlan

It was a grueling 1.3 mile hike  up hill, but well worth it in the end.

Gorgeous view of the city from the top of the temple.

After our hike, we went to a traditional Mexican restaurant where I ordered calabacitas(zuchinni) rellenas and a ice cold cerveza. Definitely hit the spot!

We wondered around the streets for a while, and ran into a beautiful old church. After I got home, my host mother told me that there was another monastery around the back with a museum with some ancient artifacts, guess I'll have to go back!

Before we left, we decided to treat ourselves to some ice cream from Tepoznieves. They have over 130 flavors of ice cream varying from mango, to lettuce, tequilla,  queso(cheese), corn, burned milk, beet, carrot, cactus, sorbets with chilli, to flower flavored ice cream (which I got) and all the flavors in between. The ice cream was well worth the 1.3 mile hike up the mountain.

We arrived back in Cuernavaca around 7, got lost in a sketchy underground market where they sold pig heads, but eventually found a taxi back to our houses. I had paella for dinner with my host mother and her niece at 10 and headed up to bed. Overall, it was another great day in Mexico. Can't wait for my next adventure!