What to visit in San Miguel de Allende

Day 6: What to visit in San Miguel de Allende

Today begins a little sooner than usual, when it is 4:30 in the morning and it is that after spending an incredible day yesterday, in which we enjoyed with Victoria and Alan of several places to visit in the DF essential , like Coyoacán and San Ángel, today we begin a new stage of the trip to Mexico in 45 days, in a new city and that will take us to know many of the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende.
We take advantage of the early morning to work a little and select the many photos we took yesterday and when it is 7 am we go to the terrace of the Zócalo Central hotel, our accommodation in Mexico City these days, to have breakfast and charge energy to face the day That we have before us.

As usual these days that we have spent in Mexico City, UBER is again our transport and directly from the application we request for 2.50 euros a car that takes us to the Central Station, from where we left the other day to visit the Pyramids of Teotihuacán and from where our bus leaves to San Miguel de Allende at 8:40 in the morning.

Today, the traffic is much less dense than usual, so in 20 minutes we are already at the Central Station, where we go straight to the ETN ticket office, to leave our luggage in the luggage area, have another coffee for 25 pesos and go straight to door 1, from where we pass the control and leave for San Miguel de Allende when it is 8:40 in the morning.

How to get from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende

There are several companies that operate for go from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende. In our experience, ETN is one of the best.
In addition to being able to make the advance purchase through its website and to be able to choose the seats, its first class buses are incredibly equipped for a trip of these characteristics, in which the travel time is about 4:30 hours.
WiFi on board, reclining seats, cafeteria service, breakfast, television, bathroom ... Much better than the first of an airplane.
If you have only one day, a good option is to book this excursion to San Miguel de Allende from Mexico City with a guide in Spanish.

After a couple of stops and a journey that we take to read, review the itinerary of this trip to Mexico for free and of course, check the list of places to visit in San Miguel de Allende, we arrive in the city when it is 1:30 at noon, from where we directly request an UBER that for 1.93 euros, will take us to the Hotel Posada María Luisa, which will be our accommodation in San Miguel de Allende, the next two nights .

We make a quick check-in and go up to the third floor where we have our room with really spectacular views and from where we can begin to discover the colors so characteristic of this city of the state of Guanajuato, which we will begin to discover shortly.

We left the luggage and being almost 1:30 at noon, we decided to go find a place to eat before starting the route we have planned for this afternoon and that will take us through some of the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende more interesting. After looking at TripAdvisor we say at the end for Café Oso Azul, a well-known coffee shop in the city, where we took the opportunity to ask for one of Alan's recommendations yesterday and that is none other than the famous chilaquiles, a typical Mexican dish , what we have to say is spectacular.

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And so, with some green chilaquiles, some rancher eggs with fruit plus soft drinks and two coffees for 250 pesos we open our first day in the city ready to start discovering what to visit in San Miguel de Allende In these first hours.
An interesting option to explore the city history and not miss anything is to book this guided tour in Spanish or this private tour where you will have a guide just for you.

Although from what we have seen on this itinerary the city is not too big, the truth is that the visit to the essential places to visit in San Miguel de Allende It is not precisely concise, so having today's afternoon and full tomorrow, we decided to dedicate these hours to enjoy peacefully its streets, walking and having that first contact that will allow us to know a little more this beautiful city ​​registered by Unesco as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity.

It's 3 in the afternoon when we start our tour of the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende which we have noted as more important, approaching the Temple of Conception, very close to the Blue Bear cafeteria, where we have eaten.

Being the time it is and being here, we take the opportunity to enter and make a quick visit, which we will repeat tomorrow with more time, since it is the day that we have decided to dedicate fully to know all the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende and from here We begin to get lost in the streets of this city that are full of color, which in just an hour have made us fall in love.

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Although initially we have no plan, almost unintentionally we end up in the area of ​​the Main Square or El Jardín, the place we could say is the nerve center of the city and to which we are sure, at some time or another, you will end up arriving. Being Sunday, the streets of San Miguel de Allende and especially this area, are very lively and very busy, especially families that at this time of the afternoon, walk in search of the warmth of the charming streets of the city.

After enjoying this area of ​​the city for a long time and sitting in one of the banks to see only the life pass, something that seems essential to us in a city like this, we start again, now traveling two of its main streets, in which we surround ourselves with craft shops until we reach the Temple of San Francisco, another of the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende, that tomorrow we will not get lost.

As we mentioned previously the historic center of San Miguel de Allende and its most tourist area is easily traveled in a short time, since the most important points are very close to each other, we could even say that leaving very early from Mexico City in an afternoon and several hours in the morning, it would be feasible to see the most interesting places, but after our experience, we can only recommend that you dedicate at least one full day to know it, since it is a perfect and ideal city to know that colorful Mexico and Above all, enjoy an incredibly atmosphere addictive and as we said before, we have not needed more than a few hours to fall in love completely with the city and that it has become the list of possible destinations to spend a season.

Walk after walk and street after street, we do again something impossible not to do in a city like this, which is none other than continue walking and admiring the beautiful architecture of its houses and streets, which seem taken from a movie until reaching the market of handicrafts, an incredible network of little streets, full of color, in which craft stands are the main protagonists.

In the alley between Colegio and Loreto is this handicraft market in which the first of the rooms is covered and where we find different positions among which items of daily life are sold, in addition to many crafts, of different qualities, for when you get to the second zone, find little shops specialsin which the crafts that are sold are somewhat more elaborate.

Without a doubt, if you want to buy a souvenir, this is the perfect place, since there are multiple items, as we say of different qualities, but most of them with a lot of charm, perfect to carry as a souvenir.

It's 7 in the afternoon when we retrace our steps, to return to the center of San Miguel de Allende, getting lost again in its most central streets, making several stops in different shops where we see again the incredible crafts that we saw days ago in Mexico City that we liked so much.

Before ur to dinner we stop at a cafeteria to have a couple of coffees and a paste for 120 pesos, for when there are a few minutes to 7 to go back to the streets of the city, now with the firm idea of ​​knowing San Miguel de Allende and its streets with the fall of the night, at which time it gains an incredible color.

We enjoy almost an hour walking through the historic center of San Miguel de Allende, until the temperature, 10 degrees at this time and fatigue remind us that the time has come to go to dinner, approaching Made in Mexico, where we ask for Shrimp tacos plus fajitas, water and beer for 331 pesos.

And so, when it is 9 pm, we return to the Hotel Posada María Luisa, ready to rest as children under the shelter of San Miguel de Allende, a city that has enamored us in an incredible way and that tomorrow we will continue to know.

Do not miss tomorrow, in which we will make a detailed route, with map included, of the places to visit in San Miguel de Allende.

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