Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico

Our hotel in Taxco was owned by a cute old man who used to be a doctor but has retired and likes meeting people so opened the hotel. His english was quite good and he gave us lots of advice on what to do while in Taxco. By the time we got there it was late afternoon so we walked around for a bit and then got some dinner. We went to a restaurant with a terrace on the roof that had a beautiful view of the city. It looked like a storm was coming and we had a great view of the lightning flashing over the mountains. When we got back to the hotel the old man made us a drink and played guitar and sang mexican songs to us.


Taxco is a silver town so there were lots of shops with silver jewellery. It was a very cute town that reminded me a bit of Guanajuato. There were lots of narrow steep cobblestone alleyways and white houses with terracotta roofs.


We wandered through the markets and looked at lots of the silver shops and then headed up to the Christ statue for a good view of the city. We then got a random gondola into the mountains on the other side of Taxco. Louise was freaking out because the guy pushed the gondola onto the cables. However, we got over safely and they let us walk through one of the hotels for a view of the city. The hotel was really nice and had an awesome pool....if I ever return to Taxco and have a bit more money it would be an awesome place to stay!


We just stayed one night and then got an overnight bus to Puerto Escondido. We had to stop in Acapulco and then change buses. All up it took about 13 hours.

 Dinner with a view

 View from the Christ statue

 Cool hotel

Steep narrow alleyways of Taxco