San Sebastion was founded by the Spanish is 1604. Of course it had been in existence for hundreds of years, where the Incas mined silver in the area. But the Spanish discovered the silver mines and made it into a proper town complete with church and town hall and jail. At it's peak, thirty thousand people lived there but now it is home to three thousand.
Today we took a trip to see the old colonial town. I don't believe it has changed for hundreds of years. The streets are cobblestones and very narrow and wind up hill and down dale. The town is in the mountains, a two hour drive from our home in Nuevo Vallarta. The road from the coast was put through in 1957.
I can never decide whether it would be better to fix the place up or leave it as it was hundreds of years ago. There were no shops at all worth looking at. The lunch was great, served in an old restaurant. We wandered around the town and up and down the narrow streets along with our tour guide and all the rest of the group. I don't really enjoy organized trips. The tour guide talks too much. But we enjoyed it anyway. The bus driver was careful. And we did not need to drive. It was a good long day.
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