Today we are in Puebla and we are visiting San Andres Cholula
which is very famous for a catholic church that was built on top of ruins and well they weren't
ruins when they built it, but it's ruins now and we but first we're stopping here at the Templo
San Francisco Acatepec and it is very beautiful because it has the talavera tiles that are
traditional from Puebla on the outside it took them 200 years to complete it. They started in
1560 and ended in 1760 with the outside with all of the tiles that were made specifically for
this church and it's very beautiful outside. We've seen a little bit of the inside they're having
mass right now, so we're going to wait a little bit and see if we can check out the inside too.
We are now at San Andres Cholula and there is a fair going on so there's all of that with lots of
food and ride as well that's not always here, but we just finished walking by the artesanias and
the crafts and we met someone that makes crafts art out of a specific grass that grows near the
volcano. And he lets you he shows you how to do it and you get to try and he has everything from
magnets and bookmarks that really are really affordable and then also some bigger art pieces
that are a little more pricey but we are off to check out the ruins and the church.
We went to see if we could get tickets to check out the archaeological area and unfortunately
because of COVID right now the amount of cases is too high so they've closed the archeological area.
I will look up how much tickets normally are and include some videos from our past visits here just
so you can get a look of what it looks like. It is the largest base of an ancient ruin that is
still here and the they were the cholultecas we're in San Andres Cholula so cholultecas
were the indigenous people that lived here and when the spanish
came they built this church on the top of the ruins as very symbolic of them
burying destroying their religious beliefs and saying this is what you have to do now.
And because of COVID there is a ticket system in place so I recommend coming here immediately to
get your tickets because you have to line up 15 minutes before your time and we're here at about
3:15 and our time is not until 4:30. That was the earliest we could get in. So we are gonna go walk
around see what else is here before we head up to see the church that they built at the top.
So our time to visit the church at the top came and we walked all the way up it's a pretty long
walk and it's very steep, so just you know you can take breaks along the way but just be aware
of that. It is a very beautiful church the inside there's some amazing stained glass you can't take
videos or pictures inside though so we'll try and find some pictures online to share with you guys.
It's very impressive that everything underneath this is the pyramid. It's the largest
base of a pyramid. It's bigger than Chichen Itza in Merida and but the thing is it's covered
totally covered in dirt so you can't it's not visible like a lot of the other more popular
pyramids are. When you go can go see the archaeological sites, the ruins, you can go
inside underneath which is really cool you're like walking through the excavated pyramid,
but this is a great place to visit if you're in Puebla. It's really easy to get to
either in car or they have a tram train that goes directly from the city. And you can also
do a day trip from Mexico City you may want to do a tour if you're not comfortable driving,
but definitely worth a visit to Puebla anyway, so I say it's worth it.
We were super hungry after hiking to the top of the hill to see the church and we had originally
planned to go to a taco buffet that Nefi had seen on one of his favorite food youtubers La Garnacha Que Apapacha.
Unfortunately the location was closed so super sad about that. We still did get tacos. I actually
got something called an alambre which is just like a giant plate of meat and you make your own
I have no idea what that noise is.
You make your own tacos they bring you the tortillas and you just um take your meat and put
it in your tortilla. But we came to this location Don Pastor really good. I think Nefi is buying
some of the salsa. We really enjoyed it. It's a chain so it's not like anything hole in the wall,
but it is really located in a good place right in the center of the park and
there's another church nearby that's super cute. We had great views of it. But that
ends our visit here in San Andres Cholula which technically we are in San Pedro Cholula which
I learned while we were here there's two towns and you just generally call them Cholula.
But we had a great time we hope you're able to come out here and check it out for yourself
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