One uncle's journey
My Uncle has been updating me lately with his Mexico trip. Here's his latest journey ... Early this morning I showed up in Melia Hotel, located in Juarez St., Alameda Central, in Centro Historica district of the city, to join 11 other tourists for the day trip to the ruins of Teotihuacan pyramids with a side trip to the Virgin of Guadalupe Shrine which is on the way. Mexicans venerate her honor and consider her their patron and protector ever since she appeared in a cave before a peasant to appeal for peace and harmony. A big church was built in her honor on the site where she appeared and many pilgrams visit it every day. However, since the church is built on a reclaimed lake, the church has tilted and one side goes one way and the other half goes the other way. So as construction to prop and prevent the eventual collapse, a new bigger, shrine has been built beside it. We then proceeded to Teotihuacan ruins, a civilization that started building 100 years BC, with incredibly ad...