Pátzcuaro
3/28 – Pátzcuaro to Zitácuaro: forests, pyramids, trout
Saturday, 3/28
We bought breakfast supplies in Pátzcuaro Friday evening, keeping the bag of food cold overnight by the simple expedient of hanging it outside from a nail in the cabin wall. Our final picnic breakfast (I can’t help it, I consider food details crucial) consisted of sandwiches (rolls, deli ham, gouda cheese – outside of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )3/27 – Pátzcuaro, Ihuatzio, Janitzio (yácatas, water, hot yams)
Friday, March 27
Lake Pátzcuaro is roughly the shape of an uppercase L (with serifs). Inside the angle of the L is a peninsula featuring a significant volcanic hill and the ancient Purépecha capital of Ihuatzio, now dwindled to a village of cracked adobe whose signal features are 1) a life sized (and therefore not very [...]
March 25 & 26: Pátzcuaro & Tzintzuntzan
Wednesday, March 25
On Wednesday we left Morelia and made the pretty drive through hills and small farms to Lake Pátzcuaro, where I had last been in 1982. The fish-filled lake and its surrounding volcanic hills were once the heart of the Purépecha empire, and today people still live in two of their three main towns, [...]
