Native Trails MyTrails 2025 261 San Luis Potosí 20 Visit of the rebozo weaving school Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy Santa María del Río is renowned for its rebozos, large woven shawls, of one color or with complicated patterns, which are regarded as part of the Mexican national costume. Learn and see how these shawls of silk or light cotton are made and which significance they have in the Mexican culture. Maybe this visit also gives you an idea to enrich your own style by a special touch. 21 Bake Campechanas in Santa María del Río Duration: 01:30 h · Level: Easy Bake your own Campechanas (puff pastry shaped like a pig’s ear) in the Hernandez Padron family bakery. Already in its fifth generation, the tasty puff pastry is made with love in “La Perla de Santa María.” From rolling the dough to coating with sugar to putting it in the oven, you can take part in the whole production process. In the small shop in the bakery’s front house, the Campechanas are already expected and are being sold to longstanding customers. 22 Boat trip Río Santa María to the Tamul waterfall Duration: 04:00 h · Level: Medium Tour with lanchas (small motorboats) upstream to the place that allows the best view of the Tamul waterfall. Here where the Río Gallinas falls 105 m (345 ft.) down into the Río Santa María is the beginning of the Río Tampaón. Steep bluffs, lush vegetation, turquoise blue water, and a rich bird life will impress you during this boat tour. When returning, you make a stop at the Cueva de Agua, a cave with incredibly blue, crystal clear water where you can also swim. 23 Visit of the cave of swallows Sótano de las Golondrinas Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Medium The cave of swallows, in Spanish “Sótano de las Golondrinas,” is the largest open karst cave in the world. Measuring 49 x 62 m (160 x 205 ft.) at the opening, it widens to 135 x 303 m (440 x 995 ft.) at the bottom, which is up to 370 m (1,214 ft.) below the surface. The Rockefeller Center of New York would easily fit within this enormous hole. Thousands of white-collared swifts and green paraquets and many other bird species live and nest in the recesses of the cave, which was explored in detail no earlier than 1966. 24 Homeopathy in Castillo de la Salud Duration: 02:00 h · Level: Easy The Castillo de la Salud offers you a great opportunity to learn more about naturopathy. While the multicolored painting of the exterior creates the appearance of a fairytale castle, the interior of the building, which was founded by Beto Ramón, a traditional healer of the Nahua people, is characterized by modern production plants and rooms that store about 300 plants that are processed here for the manufacture of medicines. During your visit, you will learn about the effects of the plants and the procedures used to obtain teas and capsules. 25 Edward James’s sculptures park Las Pozas de Xilitla Duration: 03:00 h · Level: Easy In 1962, the eccentric British multimillionaire Edward James began to create Las Pozas de Xilitla, a surrealist park that now unites 36 unfinished concrete sculptures – palaces, temples, winding paths, detached façades, and many other follies – with exotic animals and the predominant nature of the Mexican rain forest, wondrously transforming all these elements into a fantastic “Gesamtkunstwerk.” Edward James was inspired by friends of his such as Salvador Dalí, Magritte and Max Ernst. 26 Visit of the Posada El Castillo Museum Duration: 01:00 h · Level: Easy Visiting the Posada El Castillo, you enter the world of surrealism turned reality. Edward James, who built the house together with Plutarco Gastélum, was not only a Maecenas of this style of art including its important representative Salvador Dalí, but made a name – as both a poet and creator of the garden Las Pozas – also for himself. Born in England, he made his works primarily after his emigration to Mexico, where they are important testimonies of sculptural surrealism today.
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