Bustamante – The Cave and a broken bus

First week in Monterrey have nearly past, when I’m sitting me in the bus to Bustamante with some of my fellow students from TEC. The bus is heading off and going north, we are not getting far outside Monterrey before we can see the mountains on our left site. Just on the other side is the United States. There is northing on both our sides, the road is straight, so you cannot fill how fast or slow we are going, when a train is passing by us. After nearly an hour on the straight road are we turning to the left. Our first stop on our tour is a Mazcal factory.

It fills like going back to the 1958, the year when the fabric started. They still are using horses to run the mashing that is pressing the juice from the Maguya plants, which are being used to make the Mazcal. The easiest way to explain Mazcal is that it taste a bit like Tequila. The majority of the Mazcal production in Mexico is located in Oaxaca.

The smell from tanks is special when we are passing the different tanks from where the production of Mazcal is happening. The factory is not so big, but still big enough to produce tree different types of Mazcal. The marked of Mazcal is big and in the shops the limit for how the taste should be is only your imagination.

Into the hiding Cave

The sun is shining from a blue sky. The temperature has reached 40 degrees Celsius when we are walking into a long tunnel. We are on our way back in time. We are now entering the Palmito Caves that is located in the mountain, Sierra de Gomes. It is an impressive view, which my eyes are seeing when we are entering the cave that is around 40 meter high and have been grooving for more than 50 millions years. The cave was discovered in 1906. Today is there still 11 km tunnel that still not is open for the public.

You can fill the heat from the stone oven, which looks like a big pizza oven, when the Empanadas with apple inside are being taken out of the oven. Bustamente is not only known for their cave but also for their first bakery. The mother is still working in the family business. Their bakery has become famous, because they where the first family to make bakery into a business.

The heat is getting the bus

Bustamente is a small city where only a little over 3000 people lives. The houses are colour-full and the roads are straight. After the visits are we leaving Bustamente and heading back to Monterrey. The trip back should only take a little less than two hours but just after 40 minutes driving is there coming a bibbing sound from the dashboard of the bus. Our driver is stopping the bus in the side of the road to try to solve the problem. He sais that it might be the air-condition which need to have its water changed.

The time is going, and I’m using the time to get out of the bus and take some pictures of the nature, but I need to be careful because cars a driving with a high speed. After nearly 15 munities are two police cars and an ambulance stopping next to the bus. Just the day before had I been told that for what ever happen the worst thing will be stopped by the police. The police and the ambulance are coming because they thought there had been an accident, which would be unthinkable with the speed the cars are driving.

The bus needs more water so our guide and one of the policemen are going to a nearby place to pic up some more water. When they come back nearly 20 minutes later, can we get the bus up running again, but the police need to go, because there had been an accident further down the road.

After nearly two hours delay are we back in Monterrey around 10 pm where Alex, Johan, Mads and I are heading of to the supermarket to make our shopping for things we need for your hiking at Cerro de la Silla the next day.