Cholola

Yesterday after breakfast, we walked over to a little bus station that would take us to a part of Puebla called Cholola.  There is a pyramid there that is the largest in the world by volume.  It is not as tall as the one in Giza, but the base is much bigger.  Only a little of it has been excavated because the Spanish built a church on.top of it.  

First, we went through some of the 5 miles of tunnels that go through the pyramid.  Since that can't study it from the outside, they have gotten much information by going into it.

Then we climbed up to the church.

We could take no pictures inside, but is was both huge and beautiful.  Outside we could look out over this part of the city in all directions.  It was not clear enough to see Popo, the big volcano

Puebla has over 365 churches and so we see them everywhere we look.  As we walked down off the pyramid, we stopped to buy some grasshoppers to try.  Not great....a little sour and crunchy.

We spent the next hors looking around the archielogical site.

And we climbed this restored part.

We stopped to watch the voladores de Papantla

And we walked around this part of town.

Stopped for drinks

Saw more churches

And searched for the place we could catch a bus back to the center of Puebla.

And back downtown ready to find a place to eat.

After eating it was too late to go back to the artesians market so we walked home just after dark.  It is lucky we headed home because, as soon as we arrived, we had a great and wonderful lightning, thunder, and rain storm. 

Today it is clear and warm as we ride along on the bus taking us back to Cuernavaca.  Suzanne is watching the movie being shown and I am writing this log.......bouncing along, it isn't easy.