This episode of Amateur Travel Guides.

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I got my bags packed on a roll.

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

amateur traveler episode 453 today the amateur traveler talks about markets and muralists,

finicular and street food as we go to Guanoato and San Miguel De

De Yeiende in Mexico. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We'll be hearing more from our sponsor later on, but first, let's hear about

Guanawato, Mexico.

I'd like to welcome the show Tim Luffel, the editor of Perceptive Travel and also the author of

World's Cheapest Destinations and a friend who has come to talk to us about the state of

Guanawato Mexico. Tim welcome to the show.

Thanks a lot for having me.

And Tim, let's put Guanoato on the map first.

Why are we talking about it and where would we find out on a map of Mexico?

Well, this is in the true interior of Mexico, the colonial center of the country where it's

got some of the oldest settlements from when the Spanish came in and it's also where the revolution started so that's kind of

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