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| Aldo, myself and Ben |
One of the friends from the hostel who I have been travelling with, Aldo, is from Toluca and still has family there so we were invited to stay with them. We stayed at his grandparents house where his mom and sister were also living at the time. They were super friendly and showed us around the city for the 5 days that we were there. The first full day there after we arrived, we headed into the downtown where there were a bunch of stands selling an assortment of candies and chocolates for day of the dead on November 1st and 2nd. There were all these chocolate skulls that were decorated with icing and feathers, as well as a candy called dulce de leche.
The next day we went to visit his father and some family friends in a near by town. We also visited the town market and tried some of the best ice-cream I've had in Mexico.On our last full day there we drove out to the volcano overlooking the city. The road made it almost to the top so we didn't have to climb very high to see the crater. It hasn't been active in a long time so there was a lake at the bottom and a bunch of cows grazing at the edge of the lake. It was also very high. Toluca is about 8000 ft above sea level and the volcano was quite high above the city. We were definitely out of breath when we reached the top.
Although Toluca hasn't been the most exciting or beautiful city we've seen, we were all sad to leave because Aldo's family had been so good to us and really made us feel at home.
