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Sara peeks into a back room and finds wood carvers busy handcrafting furniture.
San Miguel de Allende and towns across Mexico are noted for hand-carved furniture.
Sara used the guidebook Bus Across Mexico to unravel Mexico’s vast bus system.
For this trip, she took a bus from Guanajuato to San Miguel de Allende.
Arriving in the morning after a trip that only took an hour and a half, Sara had plenty of time to explore the colonial city before heading back to Guanajuato.
Nuevo Laredo is the Northern terminus of the national Railroad and the Inter-Americas Highway, as well as an important point of entry for U.S. tourists driving to Mexico. It is also a center of international trade and the distribution point for an agricultural (mainly cotton) and livestock-raising area; commerce; tourism industry.
Nuevo Laredo has been one of the many Mexican cities affected by an influx of foreign capital, primarily due to the establishment of foreign-owned industrial plants, known as maquiladoras. Has developed into a transportation-trans-shipment center since NAFTA (1993).
Founded in 1755, the city was part of Laredo until the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Nuevo Laredo played a role in the Mexican revolution of 1910 and was burned extensively in 1914.
