Our drive to Maravatio was pleasant and we had a great sunset to break the monotony that comes with long roads cutting through the desert.
Maravatio is a small town around 2 and half hours north-west of Mexico City, and it was here that we'd be visiting our next park.
Parking in a field we made a gracious entrance into the fair.
This was another country fair with competitions being held for best cow and lots of them had been brought in from around the state.
I'm not a fan of these pony carousels, the animals never look happy.
This fair had a reptile house, certainly different!
A really impressive looking haunted walkthough spoiled by seeing the size of the truck behind it that house the attraction.
Another Wacky Worm (I think this is #6 that we rode). Note the plates on the front, "Oruga" is a caterpillar, "Duga" has not translation and I'm guessing that was just a rhyming couplet.
Another Tagada, I don't think these guys were official dancers, just people dicking about :)
Same fair staples that we'd seen many times before. The artwork was quite cool though.
Some rather demonic looking characters in a beautfully lit spin ride.
Another coaster similar in look to the one in Quiqueland although this one never crashed into the station on every lap like that one did. This showman had no problem taking our money and letting us ride together although he did have to push start the ride to get it to connect with the lift hill.
The final coaster was another Bob Espunja this one had weird umbrellas on every train that made our squeeze into the cars just that little more difficult (Yep, we were really too big for these too but had perfected a way to get in so we didn't die of blood loss). This ride operator seemed quite interested in a woman at the fair who distracted him long enough to keep on this thing for a good 5 minutes...there comes a point when you have to just ignore the crowd that is watching 3 grown adults squeezed into a Spongebob themed ride going round and round.
Elsewhere the other attractions were standing proud but it's fair (pun not intended) to say that it wasn't overly busy. We didn't have to queue for anything.
On the way back to the car we thought we'd play tease the cow. The cow had a major "don't mess" look on it's face and not wanting to get gored on those horns our game was quickly dropped.
Another nice find from Thomas, and another 3 credits to boot.
That was day 4 where we'd done 2 parks, 1 fair, 1 UNESCO site and a whole lot of driving. Our night was spent in the new town of Queretaro from where we'd be headed to Mexico City the next day. Whilst driving back to the hotel Thomas and Tal decided to swap driving and we pulled up beside the main road where the swap happened. 10 seconds after Tal had slowly made his way back into the car we had a group of stray dogs barking at his door. 10 seconds away from the need to have a tetanus shot :)
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