Puebla

Vacation: Take 2. We headed on back to Puebla for some gorgeous cathedrals, gigantic ruins, and super cheap shopping. Definitely more chill than our vacation to Cuetzalan.



The Zocalo: the main church in the center.

So the Centro Historico of Puebla is the area we stayed at. Puebla has a lot of European influence with their architecture. In the area surrounding the center alone, there are over 76 cathedrals. So everywhere you look there are church steeples. We went into a few. They are huge and gorgeous, but to me you've seen one cathedral, you've seen them all. I really like that LDS churches are so simple and quaint. I feel like the cathedrals I've been in are too gaudy and huge and have so many statues and gold leafed decorations on the walls, ceiling, everything.

There were some cool traditional dancers in the center.

The shopping was awesome. And super cheap, which made it even more awesome. They have many gorgeous crafts here. A lot of merchants are making more of their craft that they have for sale. So it is cool to see that some of the stuff is made by the seller right there.

I love these tapestries. They are embroidered.

One awesome thing about Puebla is that it is home to the world's smallest volcano Cuexcomate. I really wanted to go, but we didn't because the other girls didn't want to and we didn't know how to get there.

We found Olaf in Puebla! Snuck a pic with him because who can afford to pay for a pic with Olaf? Not some cheap college girls in Mexico.

This is the Capilla del Rosario. It is a very gorgeous cathedral with a whole heck of a lot of gold plating on everything everywhere. This is the only cathedral I actually took pictures in. This one was definitely the fanciest, but the rest looked about the same.