we arrived in guadalajara on a monday in the evening, and went to the main hostel in town, right in the middle of peak hour. back to the haze of a big mexican city, this was our last stop before heading back home, we had three nights in town. from all accounts, guadalajara is famous for having the prettiest girls in mexico, and true to what others had said, the girls were prettier and they seemed to appear in a higher ratio than other mexican cities (though i didn't get any photos 
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. anyways, back to the locale, we had two full days and one half day to see the area, and do whatever last minute shopping was necessary. the plan, wander around guadalajara, go to tequila, and do some shopping at the market (though i had had my fill of shopping by this point).
we spent our first full day wandering around town and seeing the local sites. the cathedral, the murals at the governor's palace of miguel hidalgo by jose clemente orozco, and also got a bus up to tlaquepaque, and checked out the shops there (a bit pricey i think).
jilting the tour ($300 pesos) provided at the hostel, we decided to head to tequila by ourselves the next day. we stuffed up the taxi ride to the bus station, then it took two hours to get to tequila (slowest bus ever, it's only 50km from guadalajara). we thought we'd missed our chance at the english tour of the distillery (12pm according to lp), but the friendly (and pretty ) girls at the mundo cuervo distillery told us that there was an english tour at 3pm. so we had lunch, wandered around checking out the tequila in the shops, then went back for the tour. it was a good tour ($150 pesos) lasting an hour and giving us a chance to sample a few different kinds of tequilas (and a weak margarita), and explaining the processes as well as the different types of tequila. so now we're connoisseurs of tequila and can tell you what's good and what's not. we didn't drink too much cos it was quite strong (especially the 55% unfinished shot), but a friendly american guy did offer some of his reserve of the family tequila (he paid more for that part of the tour), which was very smooth indeed. alf and ozzy got a big bottle of tequila each, with shot glasses, while i only got a small souvenir bottle and shot glass. so what was meant to be a half day thing turned into a whole day, and we had another long two hour trip (you can see all the agave plantations along the way) back to town. not only that, the whole trip definitely cost us more than if we had gone on the tour with the hostel, oh well, live and learn.
our last day in guadalajara (flight at 6pm) pretty much just consisted of more markets/shopping and ice cream . we left pretty early for the airport, about 3pm, and then just waited for our flight. it sort of seems like guadalajara wasn't as interesting as the other places from my post, but perhaps we were a bit tired and didn't have enough time to do some of the stuff outside the city, i'd definitely go back and do it properly given the chance.
and that's it for my mexico recap, i'm not going to do a final blah blah post to summarise the trip, i think i've said more than enough in the past week and a bit, so anything i've forgotten could very well possibly end up in the gallery anyway. i'll hopefully start posting some pictures there sometime next week, getting a new monitor to help with processing. will be back to regular programming soon, as i do have a few other things that i need to post 
. so now, just have to sit back, and plan the next break i think, i've already got a good idea of what i will be doing (shoul be different in some ways i think ), but i'll save that for another time.
picture of agave pinas at the muno cuervo distillery, they are quite massive.
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