Famous for Zorro.
AND last night’s most remarkable encounter with blinding clouds of mosquitos, the little no-see’ums that at first we thought were just annoying gnats but turned out to be blood-thirsty monsters. And I learned recently that two of the guys made a study of these fiends and decided they were sand flies, so I’ll change my future references.
Here are a few pictures from around the lovely hotel:
And below is the corner of the dining room where Michi and I ate dinner the first night, home to the invading army of sand flies.
Covering every surface of my body, ev-ree-where, and here it is days later, and I’m still really mad at those sand flies, but I can go 10-15 minutes without noticing so that’s better. I have a disgusting picture of one ravaged arm which I put here and then took out because YUCK.
Tour itinerary:
7:00 am Breakfast at the Hotel included
8:00 am El Fuerte tour: we will walk through the streets of El Fuerte, visitng the El Fuerte museum and the historic Municipal Palace, once the government seat of Sinaloa. Along the way, we will learn about the great Fuerte River, a vital source of life and development for the community.
Free afternoon
Lunch and dinner on your own
The group gathered for our first outing together.
This is a recreation on the same site as the original fort with a museum inside and many interesting artifacts.
A view from the fort of the Fuerte River, key to the agricultural prosperity of the area.
A view of downtown from the fort.
You can see a bit of this mural in the picture above. Represented here are many of the cultural icons of the local people, the Yoreme.
The handkerchiefs and belts you see hanging on the wires are part of the traditional costumes of the local people here for decoration.
Also not the original church but on the same site where the Jesuits set up shop. I stopped off inside.. where is the picture?
Lunch and dinner on your own, and both meals were YUM.
I spent most of the free afternoon back and forth to the pharmacy hoping to find Just The Thing to relieve my misery but without success. Then I had a FABULOUS massage and the woman who did the massage anointed my 1000 bites with some cooling liquid that was lovely going on and even lasted for a little while.
