Three landscapes

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Fields near the mountainous woods of Mazamitla

Islets in a semi-deserted beach in Michoacán

The quaint city of Guanajuato

Just exemplifying again the wildly different landscapes that can be found in the region. Sadly the ever increasing reports violence in the zone has steered travellers away from these lands, specially for the first two. Sadder is that it is probably perfectly safe for anyone to go there; all there is is fear.

Properly receiving springtime in Mexico

I believe Mexican hot and sunny beaches enjoy worldwide fame because of their "good" weather. Well, if you wander a couple hundred kilometres inland from this heavenly pacific ocean seashores in the south-west, you might actually be surprised by the landscape.

You could, for example, be surprised my a mild tropical spring frost:

Waking up at 7 in the morning surprised us with frosted grass...

and car.

Or you could find yourself ascending a snowy road to a snowy peak

The snowy peak of El Nevado de Colima

A closer look

You might as well get lost in a tropical coniferous forest.

Some millimetres of snow in the forest

Or you might fancy some tacos fur lunch (too bad I didn't got a photo of this) just before a 3 pm snow shower, and then make a small ridiculous snowman behind a three.

Do I really look that ridiculous?

Down to (the end of) it

Unfortunately, I have never been much of a mountain cyclist. In one of those scarce trips, I decided to film the descent down this very enjoyable trail through some woods near my home. I proceeded to tie this very old camera (so wouldn't be a considerable loss in case any branch, or the floor, crossed its way)  to the side of my helmet. As you can see, inexperience made me struggle down the path. The view angle is a bit low but I thought the video came out good enough to share since many, many locals bike this area and there's little or no information about this routes. Shamefully the trail (which was in a sort of unauthorized area for MTB) had been close down for soil conservation, and I was unable to get to the end of it.