Guanajuato

By Douglas Bower

When theme parks, beaches, scuba diving, and whale watching have lost their charm after multiple vacations to Mexico, perhaps a visit to The Land of Frogs is in order. The City of Guanajuato, which is called “the Crown Jewel” of Mexico’s colonial cities, loosely translates as “the land of frogs” in Tarascan: Quanax-Huato. By some accounts, a long-ago inhabitant of the land, whose identity has been lost to time, took one look at the terrain and said, “Nothing but frogs could live here!” Others say the locals found thousands of frogs in the mountainous terrain. Still other accounts say it was the shape of the mountains that reminded the natives of frogs. Whichever account is true, Guanajuato is a place to get to know.

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