A hike up the monolith

What I have learned so far about the indigenous people here in the province of Querétaro is that they were and are mostly part of the Otomi people who speak the language Otomi. One very famous Otomi man was Conin, his name apparently meaning noise in their language. There is a big statue of him by the highway when you get into the city from the airport and it was the first statue  I saw here. I think it's because of him a new curiosity for statues awoke. I'm normally more into stones carved by mother nature.

Conin became an ally with the Spanish people in order to win over the Aztecs also living in the area in the 1500s. A lot of the Otomi people converted to Catholicism and therefore the history might seem a little less bloody from that point of view. A big part of them later died of deceases brought by the Spanish and that is how the power shifted.  

On my husband's first day off, we decided to take a 40 minute drive to see a huge rock carved by mother nature,  called Peña de Bernal.
  

Peña de Bernal is the third highest monolith in the world, I learned, so it consists of only one big rock and is impressively old. We loved the energy coming from this massive stone and enjoyed a steep and fun hike up. 

The part that was less fun, was the other humans as there was a lot of them. People would stop where ever without caring if they were in the way and causing danger for others. I wanted to say something not so nice to these people but my husband didn't want to teach me anything bad. Just say; "con permiso". They will understand. If you absolutely want to swear at them do it in Swedish, so they don't understand. I guess that's smart advice to stay out of trouble... con permiso själviska skitstövlar! 

We made it safely up...

... and back down while we enjoyed absolutely splendid views and great exercise. I got to enjoy a little vertigo on top of it. Back in the village, we decided on something refreshing and local and I tasted the weird combo called vino tinto con nieve de limón, in other words red wine with lime-snow.

   
It was really delicious. On the way up I saw the advertisement for the drink and I said to my husband; "who would drink such a thing" and on the way down I was like "I think I want some of that lime-snow now". The mood swings so nicely in the heat and the sunshine.
The village that surrounds this rock is called San Sebastián Bernal and is really cute and charming.  We had another adventure to head to this day but we decided we would absolutely come back and have a closer look at this historical village and hike up the monolith earlier in the morning with less people around.