Our most recent trip was to Mexico over the holidays. While most of the time was mainly spent visiting people there, there were a few sightseeing opportunities I wanted to add to the blog as well.
We flew into Guadalajara first and my favorite activity there was spending an afternoon at the Bosque los Colomos, a huge park right in the city. This part is so large and we only saw a small portion of it. It was a great place to picnic with a lot of grills available.
By far the best part of the park we saw was the Japanese Garden. It was absolutely beautiful! While the garden itself wasn’t overly large, it was a lot of fun to walk all around it and up and down the many bridges crossing the ponds. Right before entering the garden are several machines with food available to purchase for a couple pesos. The options and squirrel food and duck food and the squirrels live in the garden. It was so much fun feeding them right out of your hand! And the Koi fish will happily devour the food as well. We spent a great deal of time in the garden having fun with the squirrels before buying some duck food on our way out. We made our way over to the duck pond to try to feed the ducks and swans there, but they weren’t quite as excited to eat as the squirrels.
All around it was a really fun time and pretty cheap as well. I believe it was 6 pesos per person to enter the park and a fee for parking when you leave as well. The time of year we went was also perfect, end of December. There were a few mosquitoes, but not too many and the temperature was the low 70’s/high 60’s- very comfortable. Since I’m not a big city fan, I’d highly recommend a visit to this park for anyone heading to Guadalajara!
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