Mexico - A Day Out In Tequisquiapan

Hello there!

After a short break and consolidating my first edition of my Travel Diaries, which included my travel posts to 14 different countries, here's kickstarting my second edition of Travel Diaries! For those who are keen to read my the first edition, you can find them here.

I am actually quite excited to start this new country and new series of posts, because it's something that I wanted to do for quite some time, but I needed some time to tidy up my photos and organise my storytelling and places. And this new country is Mexico!

Back in 2009, I had the opportunity to go for a summer exchange programme to spend 7 weeks studying in an university in Queretaro, a small city in Mexico and that was one of my more memorable parts of my life! Going halfway across the globe from Asia, I didn't know much about Mexico so I went there with my eyes wide open, and ready to embrace the different cultures and experiences.

A few months before the actual trip, if you are old enough to recall, there was the H1N1 virus which was quite prevalent in the world, including Mexico, and the trip was almost cancelled. Eventually, the programme was postponed, and the situation got better and travel restrictions were lifted. Even so, many participants of the programme decided not to go ahead for personal reasons. Because this trip was such a rare opportunity, I made the decision to go ahead.

So let the adventures begin!

Here's the series of Mexico posts so far:
Mexico - Flying Halfway Across The Globe
Mexico - A Journey Beneath The Vineyard
Mexico - Where Peña de Bernal Comes Alive
Mexico - A Leap Of Faith At Las Pozas
Mexico - A Garden Of Wild Wonders
Mexico - The Pyramids Of Teotihuacan
Mexico - We Scaled The Pyramid Of The Sun
Mexico - Where Colour Meets The Hills At Guanajuato
Mexico - Getting Lost In Guanajuato
Mexico - Where Time Slows Down In Patzcuaro
Mexico - Where History Rises Above The Lake
Mexico - The Many Colours Of Morelia
Mexico - A Morning Stroll Through Morelia

Time flies and the 7 week exchange programme was almost coming to an end. In one of our final weeks, we made a day trip to Tequisquiapan, which was a town in the same state where we studied. It was recommended by one of our local friends in the university, and he actually drove us there!

We first went to El Oasis, which was a local water park. It was pretty fun actually, to play with the slides, the wave pools, together with friends. The weather was actually quite hot and I remembered we were slapping on a good amount of sunblock. So we parked the car and headed right in!

This was the entrance of the water theme park.

A map of "El Oasis", it's wasn't a big park but it was enough for the town and visitors!

After we got changed, we headed to explore the park.

This was the wave pool if I remembered correctly. A good place to have fun, and chill as well. It was a weekday so there was not so many people as well.

They have other areas and slides for adults and kids to play too!

After a fun morning at water park, we also explore the little town of Tequisquiapan.

This is Pendulo de Tequisquiapan, which translates to Pendulum of Tequisquiapan. This marked the geographical center of Mexico during history times, but of course, with land changes these days, the exact center might have shifted.

We also walked along the streets...

And before we knew it, we reached the town square.

There's a gazebo here, and a church behind.

A very chill and quiet town, I guess it's because it's not very populated. Which makes it a good place to just hang out with friends and enjoy the peaceful surroundings.

Another plaque, which is in Spanish, about the geographical center. Hmm with Worldmappin's coordinates and map below, maybe readers can judge for yourself? Hehe.

So that's all for the day trip to Tequisquiapan, and thanks to one of our university friends who took his time off to bring us out to explore another part of his country. :)

And that's all I have today! Have you been to Tequisquiapan or Mexico? Let me know in the comments below!

Finally, thanks for reading my post in the community under World Map Pin!