Alamos, Mexico

... hours later, having watched a couple of American films, we arrived at the bus station where we transferred onto a bus bound for Alamos. It felt good to finally arrive at our destination in the daylight. We checked out a couple of hotels in the Colonial ...

A travel blog entry by andanddan
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... for the train. But rather than rush, and start the journey the next morning, we decide to spend a day visiting Alamos, a nearby beautiful colonial town, which is untouched by tourism, well untouched until we got there:-). The following day we make our way ...

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... see even half of it. I started off by taking a little side trip to Bandelier National Monument which is near the town of Los Alamos.  This park was set up in the 30's and is named after the first anthropologist to study the area at the turn of ...

... came to be "toughened up". Well in the early 1940's the government bought the place and set up the "Manhattan Project". Los Alamos became America's research lab and as for that Manhattan Project, they didn't come up with a new style for the catwalk. They ...