30th November - Tepic

Today we were exploring the city. Our host Jose took us to the centre (bus ticket costs 5 pesos, in Baja it was 10) and our first steps led us to the central market - noisy, full of people and scents, the best place where to be right here and right now. And the best place if you want a good breakfast. Then Jose invited us for sightseeingto tour through Tepic. For a while we tasted how it was to be "just" ordinary tourists. Actually it wasn't bad, we saw big part of the city (local government is in the building which was originally prison), we saw sun dial hidden in forest (originally there was a farm field) and stopped at a nice viewpoint with panorama of whole Tepic below and with stands where Huichol Indians sell amazing bracelets and necklaces from small (unfortunately plastic) beads. Location of Tepic is quite unique. In the language of natives 'Tepic' means town between mountains, and it really is, partly because it is in volcano and partly because it is surrounded by volcanoes, too. There is whole mythology about them. At the end of day we showed Jose and his father (he was really enjoying that he could speak with us - most of the travellers who had stopped here didn't speak Spanish -and asked as a lot about Slovakia), pictures from our travels and also from Slovakia. Jose wants to do a big bike tour in Europe so we gave him a lot of tips and probably changed his plans, originally he wanted to travel more in the west part of Europe, but we did pretty good advertisement for central and eastern Europe :-) (I don't know why, people in America, when talking about Europe, they usually mean just western Europe, like if Europe east from Germany doesn't exist; they don't know how much they miss...)