Uruapan, Mexico

In Uruapan I stayed with a wonderful family from the Servas program. They took such great care of me and really treated me like family. I stayed there for 5 days taking in there city and visiting a couple other places not far from Uruapan on day trips. In Uruapan itself I went out for the weekend with Marisol and her cousins, visited the beautiful national park, took a tour of the old textile factory, and even walked through the narrowest house in the world.












The Padilla family and me at the lookout above Uruapan at night












Streets of downtown Uruapan












Shadow of a palm tree in the central park












Lawn tractor pulling wagons of kids around the central park

My favorite attraction in Uruapan was the fabulous Cupatitzio Canyon National Park in the heart of the city. It was a wonderfully lush canyon with water, waterfalls, and fountains everywhere. It was absolutely beautiful with the sound of water all around the park as it followed the tropically vegetated banks of the Cupatizio River. One of the unique quirks of the park were the divers climbing high into trees above the river and diving into the cold and shallow waters.
































Another great sight in Uruapan is the old San Pedro textile factory which is a beautiful old building full of old textile machinery. There is a part of the factory still working and creating beautiful hand made textiles of cotton and wool but most of the factory is a museum of the 19th century textile industry.































For the quirkier side of Uruapan I visited the world's narrowest house just up the street from the the old textile factory. It measures only 55 inches wide from outside to outside and climbs four stories tall. It didn't look like a particularly comfortable house, but it was interesting and certainly narrow.





























































Rusted banana tree and vines