Un paseo al Real

Vivir en Pachuca (o pasar gran parte del tiempo allá) implica visitar, tarde o temprano, al menos dos de los atractivos turísticos que se encuentran cerca de la zona. Los dos favoritos son Huasca y el Real, que es como llamamos de cariño al pueblo Real del Monte. Creo que es una de las zonas turísticas más importantes del centro del país en años recientes.

Últimamente el Estado de Hidalgo ha invertido en publicitar el turismo, esto sumado a la gran campaña de Pueblos Mágicos. Para ser un Pueblo Mágico en México se deben cumplir una serie de lineamientos que no cualquier pueblito puede alcanzar. En Hidalgo sólo tenemos 3 pueblos mágicos, Huasca (el primero en todo el país), Mineral del Chico y Real del Monte.

El domingo antepasado fui al Real. Con un aire frío, cielo despejado y sol extremo nos recibió, después de años de no ir. Como fuimos en dos coches (mi familia e invitados), llegamos un poco antes y nos estacionamos frente a un lugar que me gusta visitar, Llaverolandia, ahí se pueden encontrar llaveros de casi cualquier cosa, desde grupos musicales hasta aquéllos de marcas de coches. Por mi parte, compré un llavero de ranita, para seguir con la tradición de coleccionar ranas.

Lo primero que hicimos cuando nos reunimos todos, fue ir por unos pastes a los Portales, el lugar No. 1 en toda la región en pastes. A mí no me gustan los pastes, pero los de aquí son bastante buenos y logran complacerme. Ahí compré un peluche de un paste, así que ya son dos peluches de comida que tengo. En cuanto a los Portales, las fotos son de internet ya que adentro no se pueden tomar fotos.

Después del desayuno compramos algunos detallitos (compré más ranitas) y terminamos nuestro día visitando la fuente. Al irnos, vimos una reunión de motociclistas, que me pareció interesante ya que no sabía que se reúnen allí.

A mitad del camino de regreso pasamos al Cristo Rey, una representación de Cristo en la famosa pose que tiene el Cristo de Brasil. Algunas fotos son de la ciudad de Pachuca tomadas desde ahí. Prefiero dejar fotos en lugar de narrar todo lo que hicimos a detalle o dejar información turística, para conocer más detalles pueden entrar a esta página y conocer detalles turísticos de Real del Monte.

Tortuga en la fuente - Turtle in a fountain

La fuente - The fountain

Iglesia - Church

Edificio camino a los pastes - A building in the way to the Pastes places

Centro Artesanal y Gastronómico - Craft and Culinary Center

Otra iglesia - Another church

Mi madre frente a una estatua de Hidalgo - Mom going her way to a Hidalgo's statue

Reunión de motociclistas - Riders meeting... gathering... whatever

Pachuca

Pachuca... otra vez - again

El reloj - Clocktower

Estadio de futbol - Soccer stadium

Cristo Rey - King Christ

De mí, para mí - From me, to me

Paste de peluche - Stuffed paste (Memento from Pastes "El Portal", Real del Monte Hgo.)

Dentro del local - inside the pasty stablishment

La idea de los pastes, tradición inglesa - Pasty's idea came from English tradition

Tenshi

Living in Pachuca (or spending a lot of time there) implies visiting, sooner or later, at least two attractive places in the nearby area. Being those places Huasca and the Real (as it is known Real del Monte town). I guess both places are among the best touristic attractions in the center area in Mexico.

Lately, Hidalgo State has invested in tourism advertising with "Pueblos Mágicos" (Magic Towns) campaing. In order to be a magic town in Mexico, towns must accomplish some requirements that no every town can do. In Hidalgo you can find 3 of them, Huasca (first to be consideres Magic Town in the country), Mineral del Chico, and Real del Monte.

 

The Sunday before last one, I went to the Real. Cold air, clear sky, and bright sun received us, after so many years I hadn't gone there. We got ther in two cars (my family and visits from outside), so I arrived earlier (with little sis and mom) and parked in front of one of my favorite places in town, Llaverolandia (Keychan's Land). There you can find keychans featuring almost anything, from music band to car companies' logos. As for me, I bought a frog's keychan, to keep my tradition in collecting frogs.

First thing we did after gathering was to go for "pastes" (Spanish adaptation to the word pasty) for breakfast to "Los Portales" (The Portals... not sure how to translate), number 1 place in pasty. I don't really like pasty, but this place just makes them so good that I end up pleased. In Los Portales I bought a stuffed toy of a pasty, so I have now 2 stuffed toys related to food (a sushi and a paste). As for this place, photographs are form Internet because photo taking is not allowed inside.

After breakfast, we bought some souvenirs (more frogs for me) and ended the day visiting the fountain. When we were leaving, we sought a motorcycles drivers' gathering, I found it interesting because I didn't kwon the gather there.

Halfway the way back home, we went to visit the Cristo Rey (King Christ), a representation of Christ posing as the one in Brazil. Some photos are taken from there, the ones with the city of Pachuca's view. Anyway, I preffer to leave some photos instead of a full detailed description about what we did. For turistic info please consult this web site to know more about Real del Monte.

Tenshi

Me... introduced once again

I begin the English version of my blog (no bigger protocol about this issue). This is a little difficult for me, not because of the language, but because of the time it takes me to decide whether to write in one language or another and the lack of ideas. The reasons, well, I like languages. Also, I think sometimes my message (to talk about my country) can sometimes be better listened in English (the second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese and before Spanish).

If you happen to be a reader from my blog already (meaning you read Spanish), you should know I'm just a humble Mexican student living in Mexico (wow that was surprising!). I study Marketing to get my Master Degree and Japanese to get happiness. I love everything about Japan, broadly speaking. I love Mexican and Japanese food (though I can eat Italian cuisine very well). Japan is my dream and I plan to accomplish it by 2014 (October). For now, I need to learn a lot before leaving.

As you can see, I attempt to learn languages, maybe because my right side of the brain is a little more developed than the left one. I'm better at Spanish grammar than any other language, but still I enjoy learning other languages. As for English, last time I did a TOEFL exam, it said I was bilingual, but I'm pretty sure it is not to trust very much because I suck at communicating in English (now that I think of it, maybe it's more because my lack of imagination rather than my lack of language skills).

What to expect in this English section? Information about Mexico: Tourism, travel, food, and anything that people around the world, regarding the language, could be interested in. As for Japan info, I hope I can update it in English, but for now it will be in Spanish only (sorry, time's little to use two languages).

Please be warned that you can find very strange words or very plain English, that's because living in a n only Spanish speaking place, I'm not exposed to idiomatic uses of English and sometimes I mix everything, as long as it sound good for me. Feel free to correct me when you see a mistake (no matter how small, no matter how big).

That's it for introduction; hope you all enjoy reading my ideas and thoughts about Mexico.

Tenshi