El cielo nocturno

   durante la "lluvia de estrellas fugaces" de Geminis



No capté ninguna estrella fugaz, pero el cielo estaba espectacular

Los volcanes en diciembre

   Popocatepetl





















Iztaccihuatl.

El valle de México

     Debajo de ese mar de nubes….. eeerrrrr, no corrección:  debajo de esa nata de contaminación está la ciudad de México y seguimos verificando que el cielo sí es azul por arriba de esa nata.

National Anthropology Museum, Mexico city

Another great addition is that some museums are also available in Google Street View, like Museo Nacional de Antropología.

If you didn't have time and "legs" to do the whole 2-day visit of all the halls, here is your chance to take a second look, notice that there are two floors, just switch between them with the corresponding floor number buttons on the left.



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Street view llega a Palenque

Dado que mis fotos no son suficientes (y nunca lo serán) para darse una idea fiel de lo que es estar en la zona arqueológica de Palenque, pues las fotos no dan ideas de las distancias entre edificio y edificio o hay cosas que no me llaman la atención en ese momento, acá viene la alternativa:

Google Street View ha añadido un pequeño recorrido por la zona, BRAVO.


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Diviertanse mucho y ojalá les sirva para antojarles un paseo a esta maravillosa ciudad antigua.

Festival Cultural Zacatecas 2012

     Magna inauguración del Festial Cultural Zacatecas 2012

Zacatecas at dusk

     This very nice historic center of Zacatecas is magical, the cathedral is lighted in a very pleasant way and the street (Hidalgo) converts to pedestrian only on the nights where the Festival Cultural de Zacatecas is playing at the Plaza de Armas.

Sian Ka'an (the place where the sky is born)

Not many words needed to describe the beauty of an amazing sunset at the biosphere reserve
     

 

Prismas Basálticos de Santa María Regla, Hidalgo

This are very interesting basalt rock formations.

The columns were formed by sudden cooling of magma on the surface of the Earth. The very interesting part is that they can be pentagonal, hexagonal or heptagonal prisms.



In this particular place - Santa Maria Regla, near the town of Huasca de Ocampo, state of Hidalgo, México. the columns reach around 30 meters high and their diameter is around 1-1.5 meters, they form a little basin/canyon with waterfalls artificially feed by a man-made water reservoir.

If you are in the area of Pachuca, Hidalgo, it's just about 30 minutes to get to Huasca, a "Pueblo Mágico" and you can visit the old Haciendas of San Miguel Regla and Santa Maria Regla that serves a hotels this days.