Paricutin

With our cousins we went to visit Paricutín, where between 1943 and 1952 the lava from the volcano buried two villages. (Reference links for information in English and en français are given below). We decided that to cram seven people into the Nissan to travel on the autopista would be uncomfortable and unsafe. We hired Nacho Vega of Patzcuaro to take us out for the day by van. It was a luxury and we had fun. Nacho is both reliable and nice.

We walked from Angauan through pine-oak forest to see the buried village, where the top of the church spikes up through the jagged lava rock.
Angauan is a very Purhépecha town. The women and girls wear colorful dress. They flee cameras that come anywhere near, but this was taken with a good telephoto lens.

After clambering around buried Paricutín we went to the trout restaurant just across the callejón from Mansión del Cupatitzio at Parque Eduardo Ruiz in Uruapan. The trout are raised in fresh water from the spring just a few hundred meters away. They are fresh and delicious. The restaurant overlooks the verdant park--I recommend it.

Paricutin in English.
Paricutin en français.
Patzcuaro.