Elena and Grammie are ready to go.
We began by going to breakfast at a restaurant near the Arbol del Tule.
They don't have a special breakfast food here. They're more likely to eat cereal or sweet bread in the evening than the morning. Mealtimes are different here, too. Breakfast is around 10am, then the main meal is eaten between 2pm and 5pm, and their evening meal is eaten around 9pm.
I tried a Tlayuda - it was delicious!
You can see the Tule tree on the right side of this picture. It dwarfs the church next to it. It is supposed to be the largest tree in the world. We're not sure if this is by volume or trunk circumference or what. It's a pretty big tree, though.
Here's a close-up of the trunk. It looks like several trees might have fused together, but I guess they've done DNA tests to determine that this really is one individual tree.
Greg, Karl, and his Mom
We look pretty small when you try to get the whole tree in the picture!
After visiting the Arbol del Tule, we headed to Mitla to see more ruins.
Chiara didn't want to wear her hat anymore, so Joseph put it on!
Mitla was still a functioning city when the Spaniards arrived in 1520 AD, and it had been inhabited since around 750 AD. It's know for all the elaborate designs on the walls of the buildings, as seen in this picture.
Listening to a guide.
We could walk through buildings.
And go down into a couple of tombs.
Chiara liked going down these stairs.
Inside one of the tombs.
Eating ice cream afterwards.
After Mitla, we headed back to Puebla. It was a long day.
I think that the Sequoias and redwoods are bigger. We drove our car through one of those trees. Hey you come home in a week! YEA!
ReplyDeleteThe trunk is slightly larger than the largest Sequoia - you could definitely drive a car or two thru if it were hollowed out. You can read about it on Wikipedia.
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