El Ranco RV Park is amazing. The best place for overlanders in all of Mexico and Central America. We met many people there, mainly from Europe. Most of them stayed there for longer. Fantastic families with children, even retirees. Everyone had a story to tell. I wish we could have stayed longer at El Rancho in Santa Maria del Tule.

Our next stop was Trailer Park las Americas in Cholula, 6 hours’ drive from Tule. We met two families there, one from France and one from Switzerland. The elevation here is over 2,100 m / 7,000 ft and felt it in the morning. The temperature was 9 °C / 49 °F when we woke up. Everyone was looking for the rays of the sun to stay warm. The cold shower was extremely refreshing. This RV Park had no hot water.

On our way through Mexico, we encountered a traffic jam on the highway. It turned out to be an accident which caused road closer in both directions. Such problems are not quickly resolved in this part of the world. Worrying about wasting long hours spend waiting, we decided to find an alternative road that runs along the main highway. Roads leading through the surrounding villages allowed us to go around the accident area and return to the highway. On the way, we encountered colonial buildings and haciendas. We tried to visit one of them, but we were not let in. In the village of Españita, we noticed a typical church from the colonial era. Modest but freshly painted. Happy on the paid highway again, we drove fast again making quick progress. We only were sorry for the hundreds of cars stuck in the opposite direction.

On the way, we wanted to visit the archaeological site of Tula, the pre-Columbian Zapotec city. We were there at three, but the ruins close at two o'clock. Strange, we were unlucky, not the first time. On the way back to the highway, instead of ruins, we saw local slums, picturesquely situated on a slope. We finished our day when we got to San Miguel de Allende.