Monday, our last day in Puebla, we headed over to Cholula to meet up with John O'Leary, a photographer friend of a friend, and to check out the sites we missed in 2003. On the way to Cholula, our bus paralleled the just-opened Metrobus line (Bus Rapid Transit); we checked out Temple de San Francisco Actepec, and then walked 1 km to Iglesia Santa Maria Tonantzintla, both great examples of Mexican Baroque architecture.
It was a cloudy day on our 2003 visit to the Great Pyramid of Cholula so we did not see Volcano Popocatépet (17,880 ft)that supposedly "looms" over the town. So we were disappointed that again it was too cloudy to see Popo.
After wandering around Cholula looking for vegetarian restaurants that turned out to be closed, moved, or non-existent, we finally found Koatlikue Pachamama, on the road to Universidad de las Américas and had a tasty late lunch.
The very Moorish Cappila Real re-opened it's doors at 5:00PM, just in time for us to visit before we met with John for some conversation and a tour of the art in Hotel Real de Naturales Cholollan.
We caught a collectivo back to Puebla and ended the day with another feast at La Zanahoria.
Puelba and Cholula made our heads spin and we will surely return again.
The Metrobus.
Iglesia de San Francisco Acatepec - Acatepec, Puebla, Mexico.
Iglesia Santa Maria Tonantzintla - Cholula, Mexico.
The Great Pyramid of Cholula with Church of Our Lady of Remedies at the top.
Top favs in Cholula.
Koatlikue Pachamama Vegetarian Restaurant - Cholula, Mexico.
San Gabriel Church and Monastery - Cholula, Mexico.
Capilla Real with Moorish influences.
Final meal at La Zanahoria.
Sun-Ling and John have been traveling the earth since 2008 while blogging, eating vegetarian and vegan, and riding public transportation. We love uphill day hikes, 20th-century architecture, Roman ruins, all bodies of water, local markets, shopping for groceries, aqueducts, miradors, trip planning, blablacar, and more.
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