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Uruapan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Uruapan
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Holiday Inn Uruapan
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Hotel Real de Uruapan
1 review -
Hotel Victoria Uruapan
3 reviews
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Hotel Mi Solar Uruapan
18 reviews
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Pie de la Sierra Hotel Uruapan
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Plaza Uruapan
4 reviews
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Hotel Mansion Del Cupatitzio Uruapan
7 reviews
Uruapan
Travel Blogs from Uruapan, Mexico
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Episode 8: the one about the slow moving "Blob"
This is a top pick! ... for exploration. The twin steeples and the alter are all that remain. The volcano stopped erupting in 1952 and will never erupt again. For volcano fans, this is a must see in your travels through Mexico. ...
Home to the worlds thinnest house
Just accommodation for now......... Accommodation Uruapan offers its fair share of good places to stay around the centre of the town. But if you're travelling on the tightest of budgets you may need to get a room at one of the few small motel style ...
Avacado Capital of the World
... Fairmont sets the bar very high – then it was on the road again. This time to the Avocado Capital of the World, Uruapan (pronounced: OOR-wa-pan). This is a big deviation from our original plan of keeping to the coast. Instead, ...
Melaque-Uruapan
... were only 5 guys in the water. Crazy. Rain woke us up REALLY early the next morning. Everything was soaked and sandy which may have had something to do with the frequent bickering accompanied by long periods of silence during the next 390km to ...
Volcan Paricutin
En ce printemps 1942, lorsque Don Dionisio Pulido, humble paysan Purépecha, parsemait ses champs, il ne pouvait deviner que cette récolte serait sa dernière. Pour lui et pour tout le village d'ailleurs. Et lorsqu'un trou de quelques mètres de ...
Uruapan - Parc national Cupatitzio
Sur notre chemin vers le volcan Paricutin, objectif ultime de ce voyage, nous faisons une halte d'une journée dans la ville d'Uruapan, 2ème ville la plus importante de l'Etat du Michoacan après la capitale Morelia. La ville est connue pour son ...
Mystic Chants or are they Calling us for Dinner?
Los Reyes to Angahuan 14 miles cycle, 12 miles lift. Hermano warned us the 10km up to Peribán de Ramos was steep. But he said after that, it would be up and down. So we pushed hard to get there, expecting time to recover on down the road. It was slow ...
Vulcano Paricutin & It's Half Burried Church
... could pick up a nice big lunch "torta"; a meat, cheese, tomato, lettuce and onion stuffed roll you find almost everywhere in Mexico! No luck. We settled for some Mexican pastry breads and Maria cookies from the tiny store on our street. On the street, a ...
Guitar town
Paracho is home to Mexico´s finest lauderos (stringed-instrument makers). They are everywhere in town, with their little workshops and showrooms. So what could I do but buy a new axe? Mr Amezcua, fourth in a family line of guitar-makers, had made ...
Last 12 km downhill, what a thrill!!
... to keep our speed under 30 miles per hour. Now this is our kind of cycling! A big mural marks the entrance of Uruapan with the word "UTOPIA" prominently featured ( Keep dreaming. ) We quickly found Hotel Parque which we had picked out of the Lonely ...
Pancho in Paracho - Maestros and Mariachis
... lazy by working from 5am until midnight every day. (oven doing business sat at a table drinking beer...) we went onward to mexico city via some lovely little towns and left old bets in an outlying city. see road report about ...
The Lake At Pátzcuaro
... death a local chief in an attempt to extract more gold conversions proved much harder to come by. Eventually, the authorities in Mexico City decided that a subtler approach was required. Nuño de Guzman was arrested and sent back to Spain in disgrace. ...
That ¨National Park¨ Was a Sham!
Miles: 3,493 Miles Per Gallon: 21.4 Uruapan is a riverside town that supposedly has a sweet ¨National Park¨ that highlights the local river. The guidebook mentions that it´s a nice change from the bustling town and that the park has beautiful ...
Uruapan: Park is fantastic, city sucks
... beautiful view on the two volcanoes. It was hard to leave and of course hard to concentrate on the road : ) Our next stop is Uruapan. Unfortunately, there is not much positive to comment on this city, it's a pretty ugly dark city. The city is tagged all ...
volcano Paricutin
... montagnes qui offre des excursions a cheval ou a pied au kratere du volcan ... CHEVAL? VOLCAN? VILLAGE INDIGENE? On y va!! La veille (a Uruapan) on fais plus de recherche et le Routard de Florie donne qqs bonne adresse ou dormir. C est fait on va dormir ...
Tour of Ingidinous Mexico
... werent supposed to do, but in Mexico anything goes). On Tuesday before coming back we stopped at a National Park in Uruapan, which was absolutely gorgeous! There were water falls and cool plants. We even saw several signs next to ...
The Devils Knee
Saw a lush city park with a river that emerged straight from the ground from a spot called The Devils Knee (a place were he was pushed over by a priest and broke open the ground) ...
Mexico
Should probably not have stopped in Uruapan which, despite being known for it's fruit & veggies, especially avocados, did not boast a single decent restaurant and had only a pretty church & plaza to commend ...
saddle sore but happy!
... nbsp;¡Pero valió la pena! (But it was worth the pain!) The trip we took Saturday was to the volcano Paricutín, near Uruapan in southern part of the state of Michoacán. It was a fabulous trip and I´d do it again...after a long period of ...
A church emerging from the lava
We went out on horses to see the worlds youngest volcano Paricutin, which suddenly emerged from the ground near a farm before spewing lava out. The villagers all escaped but the only thing remaining of the town was the church spire poking through the ...
selva en la ciudad
Apres avoir quitte Patzcuaro et son lac vers 1h (Miguel nous a conduit a la gare routiere) on prend le bus direction Uruapan. On decide de prendre un hotel simple en face de la gare routiere (les "fenetres" sont des lamelles de verre et ne se ...
Uruapan
After waiting 5 hours for my landlady to hand me my deposit we left Ixtapa, Gro. at 5.00 pm and raced northward, averaging 110km/hour towards Uruapan. I will add my details to this journey when I have more ...
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