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So we made it to the Guadalajara area and decided to stay in Villa Corona at Chimulco Trailer Park as it is the closest RV park to the city unless you stay in the city and those parks are not as nice. "Villa Corona" "Villa Corona is known for its beautiful Parque Acuatico Chimulco and it’s Hot Springs! There are three naturally hot pools and instead of pumping and filtering the water they simply empty the pools every night and refill them in the morning from the abundant underground hot springs. One of the side benefits for the people lucky enough to live in Villa Corona is that they get free heating and hot water! The water from the hot springs is piped throughout the town and into every home and business. The aquatic park is open to the public during the day and is
crowded with happy, laughing Mexican children and their watchful parents. Many
of these visitors drive or bus down from Guadalajara for the day. They bring
huge lunches that they eat at the many barbeque equipped picnic tables
throughout the park. At night while the three main pools are being emptied and
cleaned, another smaller pool is filled with hot water for the exclusive use of
the residents of the RV Park. It is open from 7:00 to 10:00 at night.
http://www.chimulcotrailerpark.com/English/home.html http://www.ontheroadin.com/interior/chimulco.htm Directions; Drive to : Villa Corona, Jalisco, Mex. From jct Hwy 54 & Hwy 80: Go 9 mi W on Hwy 80 toward Barra de Navidad. After Gas station turn left, go 1 block, turn right & go 1/2 mi. Entrance on left.
Park entrance
RV area
There is more park behind us where people can pitch tents and walk along the lakeshore
Cool RV!!!
Laundry room and clubhouse
Office
Grocery store and restaurants in the park
Pool area - one of them
Water slides
Restaurant, First Aid station and free WiFi ( power bars to plug-in at each table)
You can rent private hot tubs filled from the hot springs
Picnic and BBQ area for visitors
Church in Villa Corona
Tonala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonalá,_Jalisco Tonala home to the famous blown glass art. Here you will find a giant street market with numerous vendors of ceramics, pottery, glass objects and all kinds of handcrafted items and novelties. We hired a professional tour guide for the day: Ricardo Mendoza Gracian Tel#376-766-0012 email address: sunset_rentacar@hotmail.com It ended up being a 7 hour day as Ricardo toured us through Tonala and Guadalajara. We stopped for lunch at one of Ricardo's favorite restaurants in downtown Guadalajara and now mine. Ricardo was an excellent guide. He speaks English and Spanish and is extremely knowledgeable of the history of the area and Mexico in general. He has a variety of different size vehicles to accommodate both large or small groups. He is also licensed to drive or move any size RV should you require somebody to deliver or move your RV anywhere in Mexico. It is definitely worth the money so that you have a driver and a guide for the day without the worry of wondering where to park, how to get there and the parking fees involved. Highly recommended. We started with a tour of Tonala. Always go on Thursday or Sunday to this city as that is when the giant market is open. It was amazing. the following pictures show you a small amount of the goods for sale and the food you may purchase from the restaurants inter-dispersed among the other vendors. It is very crowded, but a lot of fun. Some of the best deals in Mexico.
Ceramics
Candles and Plaques
More ceramics and glassware
Food!!!
Baked goods
Quoted from:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Black Pottery of Oaxaca In Oaxaca, as in other cities and towns in Mexico, pottery is familiar as decoration and is widely used for practical purposes. But the pottery best known in Oaxaca, a colonial-style city about 325 miles south of Mexico City, is unusual in that it is black. The black pottery of Oaxaca has a satiny sheen, sometimes with a silvery luster. It was developed by accident in 1953 from the traditional drab gray ware of the area. That was when Rosa Real de Nieto, a potter from a family of potters of Zapotec Indian ancestry, tried burnishing a simple clay pot with a piece of quartz before firing it. The pot that emerged from her kiln in San Bartolo Coyotepec, an adobe village about nine miles south of Oaxaca, had an attractive patina. Further experimentation led Mrs. Nieto, who died in 1978, to discover that the shorter the firing time the blacker the pot. Instead of the pale taupe that resulted from the usual firing time, the pottery could be made a handsome black. It is this stunning black pottery shaped into tiny pots, animal figurines and beads as well as larger jugs, bowls, candelabra and jars that fill the shelves of craft shops and sections of the three vast indoor and outdoor public markets in Oaxaca. One of the best selections of the finely finished pottery is available at Mrs. Nieto's airy workshop in San Bartolo Coyotepec. It is now being run by her son, Valente, Nieto. To read the full article: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9B0DEEDD1230F93BA35750C0A961948260 I do not know where the best prices are for this pottery, but there was plenty of it here in Tonala
Lamps and things
More ceramics of a different kind
Wooden picture frames
Silver frames and tea-sets, etc....
More candles
Glass balls - hand blown
Tequila or liquor sets
Wooden crosses
Glassware
I purchased some wineglasses here and some tumblers in Mazatlan. A reasonable price is about 40 pesos/ea for the higher end glassware. John and I found out you can get the price lower if you buy more than one item. The more you buy the cheaper it gets.
A gentlemen decided to use his car to market his merchandise
City square with a pretty church in front. too many people to get a good picture. We only had two hours or so to shop if we wanted to see the best of Guadalajara. The dog limits our day trips to max 8 hours.
More food........
Churros - fried dough rolled in sugar, sort of like a Canadian Beavertail on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa minus the cinnamon and icing sugar and the shape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_dough http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/canada/beaver-tails.htm
OK not the same, but delicious!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churro http://www.cooking-mexican-recipes.com/churro-recipe.html
On to Guadalajara next for a history lesson! Click on this link to see the next pictures in our travel log
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