Must see/do things in Ajijic

Lakeside Bound wrote:I will not have a car so we will be walking unless we hire a driver/guide. Has any one used the Charter Club Travel Agency?

I've done a fair amount of Charter Club Tours, a good way to see a lot of different areas. They do several trips around to the south side of the lake - Mazamitla is one of the areas and on the way you see a good deal of the south side of the lake. They are a first rate tour group. This is their website showing day tours: http://www.charterclubtours.com.mx/tours.html Then there is Noe on the advertising banner at the top of the page and he does good trips outside this area. San Miguele and several other colonial cities coming up soon.

I agree with Rosa Venus: "... how you spend a vacation, and how you explore a place as a possible location to move to, are two very different things." I also agree that hiring someone to take you to different towns one day is a good idea unless you are comfortable driving a rental car and using a map. Driving from west Ajijic and hitting San Antonio, Riberas, and then into Chapala is a nice overview for one day with times at plazes and malecons. I also agree that it is better not to try and cram in seeing it all (or even a lot of it). Rosa´s idea of spending time just hanging out and trying to imagine yourself living in this area worked for me. After a one week vacation spent mostly in Chapala hanging out and catching the vibe I moved down here a few months later.

[quote="Smartalex"]In no particular order:

- Walk yourselves around Ajijic, from the plaza to the pier and along the malecon. You may want to eat at Tango while you're there.

- Walk the malecon in Chapala on a Sunday. You may want to eat there too.

- Go to the hot springs in San Juan Cosala...the big one.

- Don't miss the Wednesday tianguis (farmer's market) in Ajijic. Although it's a small tianguis, it has a lot more in the way of arts and crafts to choose from

- Do you ride horses? You can rent horses near the tianguis and take a ride along the lake.[/quote]

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viajero wrote:

David wrote: Be sure to visit SuperLake, the "gringo grocery,"

Definitely a "must see".

Yeah, if only to see one of the wonders of the world - a $7.00 can of baked beans.

Tony_In_Mexico wrote:

viajero wrote:

David wrote: Be sure to visit SuperLake, the "gringo grocery,"

Definitely a "must see".

Yeah, if only to see one of the wonders of the world - a $7.00 can of baked beans.

Or a $ 15 jar of mincemeat. Overpriced everything that gringos want. Supply and demand.

If I was moving to a foreign country I'd want to know where to get what I want. Some things are premium priced but we've got a choice. Most things are reasonably priced.

David, I agree. If I want goods from NOB brought down here I expect to pay a premium for getting them. If things are more than I wish to pay, I do without. Substitutes for many things can be found. But, sometimes only a Dark Chocolate Milky Way bar will do (my current quest) and no price is too high when found.

Thank you everyone!!!
I will take all your comments and suggestions into consideration and I am sure we will have a wonderful time. I will probably bypass SuperLake, but you never know, I may just find that I need something that I can't live without and will have to check it out.
6 day is definately not enough time, but the next time I will be planning a much longer stay. Again, thank you.

For those of you who like to disparage Super Lake and the prices there, think about this local Lakeside treasure this way:
* Try living just about anywhere in Mexico, even in many large cities where the variety of fruits and vegetables plus some processed foods is simply not available at any price. When we drive down to Chiapas, a fine place in most ways, the trunk of our car is a mini-Super Lake with many items we simply can´t find down there even in the state´s capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez. Of course, there are many great things available down there you can´t find here but that´s not the subject of this thread.
* Fly off to Paris, which we visit often as we have family there, and fixate not on the splendid architecture of that great city but the unbelievable prices for every day food. After our last visit last May, we mainly brought back pictures of astonishing food prices in ordinary markets. the price of housing is mind boggling in any truly desirable place and the taxes just for the right to occupy even a modest home there are mind boggling as well.

We are damned lucky to be living in this beautiful country and, when we contemplated moving to France or the United States when things started getting a bit hairy around here recently, we couldn´t come up with a single place in either country where we would wish to live and could afford.

So, pay the equivalent of $7 USD for that can of pork and beans once in a while. You´re saving so much otherwise hereabouts, you can spend a little money here and there on reminiscenses and go back to tacos for the next meal.

In France, you would pay outrageous annual taxes for the simple pleasure of occupying a house and for each television set you owned plus the number of windows in the house and the equivalent of $6USD per gallon of gas you used in your mini-car. You would also freeze your ass off in the winter and, sometimes, in the spring as well.

BIEN DICHO, PERRO

THAT....was an award winning post and comment.

Agreed, slainte39.
Thank you, Dawg, for providing a reality check for those in need of one.

gvprod,
Where can i purchase this bread. Thx

joec wrote:

Tony_In_Mexico wrote:

viajero wrote:

David wrote: Be sure to visit SuperLake, the "gringo grocery,"

Definitely a "must see".

Yeah, if only to see one of the wonders of the world - a $7.00 can of baked beans.

Or a $ 15 jar of mincemeat. Overpriced everything that gringos want. Supply and demand.

A box of Cheerios was $17.00 in Sydney 10 years ago--and that was when the US dollar went far in Australia. No, I didn't buy any Cheerios.

@borderreiver,
The "bakery" is inside a little house, from the front of the church, you would walk towards the mountains, cross the highway, go two blocks. at the corner go left, I believe its the second or third house on your right, big stack of wood next to from door. their is a little "tiendita" (store) in front bakery is behind. best tome to go is about 5:00pm, and get them fresh out of the oven.
just ask anyone for PAN TACHIHUAL

The oven is a adobe oven and they use wood.

They only accept cash NO VISA ACCEPTED

It is so suprising how many people have never eaten this wonderful bread.

gracias

For those tight asses who prefer to operate on an individual cost basis - how can you answer to $22USD for a bottle of lousy Scotch in 1959?

Geez Neil, I didn't even know what scotch was in 1959....let alone the price/value!.....