La Bufa

La Bufa is a little mountain peek that you can climb here in Guanajuato. In fact to get to it you just go up our lane and up the mountain. The views from there are amazing. The town is so noisy you can still hear some of it from up here but it's nice to get away from all the people and enjoy the beauty. The views of town don't do justice in pictures. It was a nice walk. The boys loved it. We didn't go all the way up, it got too steep for the boys.



A little cave we found. Robby was really upset that we couldn't go in very far, as we didn't bring a flash light. We will be going back!

Guanajuato has a lot of legends that go with everything. Here is what Wikipedia says about La Bufa, in case you were interested.

At sunset, there is a formation that looks like the profile of the face of a bearded man. According to tradition, this is the face of Christ.^[54] There are two caves consecrated to Ignatius of Loyola. There are on opposite sides of the summit and called the “old” and “new” cave. Each 31 of July, there is a pilgrimage to the “new” cave in honor of the saint. Sometime during the colonial period, an image of Ignatius was painted on a wall of this cave. According to legend, a group of male witches used to use the cave for their rites on the eve before the Catholic ritual, “forcing” the image on the wall to observe.^[55] The Cerro de la Bufa is home to another legend about an enchanted princess. It states that on feast days, this woman would appear to a man on a road in the mountain and ask him to carry her to the Basilica in the city center in his arms. If he did so, the city of Guanajuato would return to the height of its wealth. However, if he chose to do so, noises and threats from behind would haunt him—and if he lost his resolve, the woman would turn into a serpent and kill him. No woman has ever been carried from this mountain to the Basilica.