Santiago de Querétaro 2022
| Category | Type | Name/Description | Notes | Cost | Origin | Destination | Kms | To Date | Total |
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| 2022-02-01: Research | |||||||||
| Service | Other | Travel Insurance f Multi-30-day trips throughout the year. Will need a \"top-up\" for Europe trip. | 534.06 | ||||||
| Service | Other | Immunization Hep A, Typhoid, Tetanus shots for both of us | 360 | ||||||
| Service | Other | PCR Test for Return Use this to sort out where we're going to get our test to fly home | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | General Info | Weather Normals | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | General Info | Research Notes Research Notes | Santiago de Querétaro is a city in central Mexico. It’s known for its well-preserved Spanish colonial architecture such as a striking pink stone aqueduct. Notable baroque buildings include Santa Rosa de Viterbo church. The nearby ochre San Francisco church is in Zenea Garden, the city’s main square. In the old church convent, the Querétaro Regional Museum displays pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican artifacts
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| Tip | General Info | Screw the Average blog Great information about the city, especially getting around using transit. | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | General Info | Walk to/from Bus Terminal Translated From Reddit | I have walked through the area, but the direct route is not the most beautiful or pedestrian. From the center you may like this route: from where you are staying, walk towards Avenida Universidad (there is a river that could be pleasant if it hasn't rained), then walk towards Bernardo Quintana and when you get to Pathé, go to the neighborhood (It is a quiet and beautiful neighborhood to walk), then cross Carretas (which is super beautiful to walk with many parks) towards Quintas del Marqués (another quiet neighborhood), from there walk to the Corregidora Stadium and from there you just have to go around it a little towards Bernardo Quintana. Right in front of the Ibis hotel there is a pedestrian bridge that crosses Bernardo Quintana and leaves you next to the terminal. That final stretch is a bit ugly because it takes you to a half-abandoned alley, but then after that you get to the parking lot through the taxi area. I have walked that section the other way around because I was working next to the terminal and suddenly I was going to the center. They are beautiful colonies with friendly sidewalks, they are quiet and there are even little trees that cover a bit of the sun. | 0 | |||||
| Tip | General Info | Walk to/from Bus Terminal #2 Translated from Reddit | Yes you can but there is not much to see if you want to get there fast ... maybe the stadium and the mall, but not much more until you get to the center. If you deviate a bit on your walk, you arrive at Carretas, which is a neighborhood with a beautiful park from which you can reach the arches (highly recommended). In this map: https://imgur.com/6WEvwjs the green line is the shortest distance between the station and the center walking through the safest area. The red one is my recommendation for a pedestrian route ... Walking through Carretas, the arches, the viewpoint, the Convent of the Cross, etc. The blue circles are nice areas to walk too, of course there are some areas that are less secure, like everywhere else. Lucky! | 0 | |||||
| Tip | General Info | Bus from Terminal to Centro Translated from Reddit\n Two QroBus apps on my iPhone - should give us transit info | If you really want to walk, walk to the stop in front of the red cross, there you take the bus to the central (one minute trip). The 121 leaves you in the central. you have to take the qrobus on constituents avenue, buy your ticket for 11 pesos on board and line 121 ends at the central bus station. | 0 | |||||
| Tip | Reminder | Travel Requirements Do prior to trip |
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| Tip | Reminder | COVID Test Need a COVID Test to fly through the USA | - Shoppers Drug Mart (seems to be most reasonably priced) - Edmonton International Airport ($250/ea) | 0 | |||||
| Tip | To Do | Ultimate Guide to the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve From Laura | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | 5 Outdoor Adventures in Sierra Gorda From Laura | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | Mexican Music Walking Tour & Lunch (San Miguel de Allende) | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | San Miguel Food Tour | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | Cook & Dine: Mole & Mexican Salsas (San Miguel) | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | Guanajuato From Judy T: If you get a chance, try to visit Guanajuanto - it's been called the most beautiful city in Mexico and it has a mummy museum! | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | To Do | Suggestions from Laura There’s wineries all around, consider visit Tequisquiapan and la Peña de Bernal | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | Travel Resource | WikiRoutes Public transportation website | 0 | ||||||
| Tip | Travel Resource | Travel Advice and Advisories | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-10: Flight to Santiago de Querétaro - Leg 1 | |||||||||
| Travel | Flight | Flights to Querétaro | Cost is for two people, all flights (round trip). Reservation SWDSFC AM7353 YEG(10:15)-YVR(11:02) operated by WestJet AM0697 YVR(23:25)-MEX(06:55) arrive on the 11th AM2460 MEX(08:55)-QRO(9:55) operated by Aerolitoral DBA Aeromexico Connect | 1967.38 | Edmonton | Santiago de Querétaro | |||
| 2022-02-11: Bonus night in Gallo room at La Encantada | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | Habitación GALLO | Booked for one night due to United flight cancelation and rescheduling trip | 51.7 | Santiago de Querétaro | ||||
| Tip | Reminder | Luggage Drop at AirBnB Contact the host to arrange to drop luggage. Check-in time is 2PM.\n Remind her that we're leaving the other property a day early. | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-12: Switch to Canario room | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada | Located in the oldest neighborhood of the historic center and next to the Temple of the Cross, emblematic site of Queretaro's history, as well as the viewpoint and famous arches, plazas, bars, and restaurants. The CANARIAN room is located within \"La Encantada “, a 17th-century house in El Barrio más antigua del Centro Histórico, a 5-minute walk from Los Arcos. Nearby you will find bars, restaurants, markets, gyms, shopping and sports malls, history and culture. | 607.92 | Santiago de Querétaro | ||||
| Activity | Sight See | Queretaro Aqueduct Queretaro has an impressive 19th-century aqueduct, most of which is held up by huge arches (Los Arcos). The aqueduct runs right past our place, although not the arch-ey part. Brent and I took a walk today along Los Arcos. It's really really cool. | 0 | ||||||
| Travel | Other | Airport to BnB | Bus ($3) then Taxi ($6) Taxi ($15) Area around bus station is not walkable | 0 | |||||
| 2022-02-13: Walk Queretaro | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-14: Work Day - Does Working Here Work? | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Service | Other | Qrobus Local transit. The city busses can only be used with one of their rechargeable passes - they don't take cash. | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-15: Gratitude | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Statue of Benito Juarez | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-16: Roof Sittin' is Good Sittin' | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-17: Elissa Arrives | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-18: Bike Tour Queretaro | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Tour | Bike Tour Queretaro | Cost for two people | 20 | |||||
| 2022-02-19: Lazy Day | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-20: Peña de Bernal with Laura | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Other | San Juan del Rio Where Laura G and her family live | 0 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Peña de Bernal | 0 | ||||||
| Travel | Bus | Amealcenses bus to San Juan del Rio | Cost is for all three of us | 12 | Santiago de Querétaro | San Juan del Rio | |||
| 2022-02-21: San Miguel de Allende | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | San Miguel de Allende | San Miguel de Allende, a colonial-era city in Mexico’s central highlands, is known for its baroque Spanish architecture, thriving arts scene and cultural festivals. In the city’s historic, cobblestoned center lies the neo-Gothic church Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel, whose dramatic pink towers rise above the main plaza, El Jardín. The Templo de San Francisco church nearby has an 18th-century churrigueresque facade. | 0 | |||||
| Activity | Sight See | Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel To me, this was the most impressive feature of San Miguel, although the whole city was really beautiful. | 0 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Mercado de Artesanias on Andador Lucas Balderas Andador Lucas Balderas is a narrow walking street lined with vendors, which is the Mercado de Artesanias. I also really enjoyed this. | 0 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Viewpoint on Salida Real A Querétaro The road into San Miguel from Queretaro takes you down a steep hill into town. There is a great viewpoint along that road, Salida Real A Querétaro, where you can look down on the Centro. | 0 | ||||||
| Meal | Lunch | Lunch at La Pamplonada | We had lunch at La Pamplonada, which was a great accidental find. Wonderful restaurant - so interesting on the inside. We loved it. Sadly, due to an ID-10-T error with my phone, I lost ALL of my photos of it. Bah! Hate those ID-10-T errors. | 0 | |||||
| 2022-02-22: Sleepless Night Hangover | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-23: Las Americas - Boa Mistura | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Boa Mistura - Las Americas boa mistura rejuvinate mexican neighborhood with otomi art | the setting for boa mistura‘s latest project is la colonia de las américas on the outskirts of querétaro, méxico – a humble community of working class people consisting of housing (much of which is self built) and small business: ‘misceláneas’ (grocery stores), taquerías, and cantinas. américas is located across two sides of a hill, and has a ‘boomerang’ form overlooking the two main highways of the state; the ‘5 de febrero’ road and ‘bernardo quintana’, which converge exactly at the apex of las amércias — as a result the neighborhood is seen daily seen by thousands of people. | 0 | |||||
| 2022-02-24: Workday | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-25: El Cerrito Pyramid | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | El Cerrito Pyramid | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-26: Workday | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-02-27: Butterfly Tour! | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Monarch Tour | Cost for two people | 260 | |||||
| Activity | Tour | Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary at Michoacan | 0 | ||||||
| 2022-02-28: Elissa's Last Day | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-03-01: Museo de Bichos de Querétaro | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Museo de Bichos de Querétaro Bug Museum - some live, mostly dead | Price for two | 8 | |||||
| 2022-03-02: Lots of Work, not much Mexico | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Tip | General Info | Mamey Sapote One of the produce stand people offered us a taste of one of these, and then, of course, we bought one. It was interesting. I'll try to describe it after we eat the fruit (rather than just the small sample). | Update: Meh. It's the Needles California of new food. So unremarkable that I couldn't describe it while I ate it and immediately forgot about it when I was done. | 0 | |||||
| 2022-03-03: Work and a Walk | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-03-04: Full Day Queretaro | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Mercado El Tepetate We found this area by accident walking back from Las Americas and I've been wanting to go back. All I knew was that it was north of the rio, and west of us. We found it easily and had a great walk, and a great lunch in the area. | 0 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Musea Casa de la Zacatecana We noticed this place walking around the other day but didn't have time to visit. We went back today and checked it out. Super interesting place. | 8 | ||||||
| 2022-03-05: Museum Day | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Museo Regional de Querétaro | 10 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | MUCAL Museo del Calendario | 4 | ||||||
| 2022-03-06: Plan B in Queretaro | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Panteón Municipal de Querétaro | 0 | ||||||
| Activity | Sight See | Museo de Arte de Querétaro | We expected there to be a charge to visit this museum, but there wasn't one. | 0 | |||||
| Activity | Sight See | Museo Indígena Querétaro | Also no cost to visit this museum today. | 0 | |||||
| 2022-03-07: Lost Day | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-03-08: Centro Sur and Feminist March | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| 2022-03-09: Swab up the Snoot Day | |||||||||
| Accommodation | Bed and Breakfast | La Encantada again | |||||||
| Service | Other | Covid Antigen Test | 80 | ||||||
| 2022-03-10: It’s all over now but the flyin’ | |||||||||
| Travel | Flight | QRO to YEG | AM508 QRO(06:17)-MEX(07:15) operated by Aerolitoral DBA Aeromexico Connect AM600 MEX(09:05)-YVR(13:15) AM7134 YVR(18:00)-YEG(20:30) | 0 | |||||