Puebla Fair

Puebla is the fourth largest city in Mexico and was home to a large fair which we had to visit.

We parked our car on some waste ground down the hill from the fair entrance.

At this time of day we expected the fair to be quiet and our theory was right.

Nice job on the hand, not such a nice job on the corpse hanging from it.

The first coaster was this one, which we weren't allowed to ride. They even turned our money down citing it was only for the children. The characters on the ride are from a popular Mexican childrens show called El Chavo and we believe the ride has that name too.

Proof!

We were allowed to ride the Crazy Mouse close by. It didn't offer anything major to us.

We didn't think we'd be allowed on this dragon. In Canada there were so many of these Dragon Wagons that we were denied that we assumed the same would happen here. Not the case however, as the operator had no problem letting us on and did have to push start the train to get it going.

Carlon were the showmen for the majority of the rides at this fair. Not the El Chavo unfortunately which was likely being run by someone else, explaining why they weren't so hospitable.

Third coaster of the day was another little kiddy thing, which again we had no issue getting on.

Cute

The 9th Wacky Worm was one that took a while to get on account of there being no operator close by. Another operator spotted us hanging around and went off to get the right guy who soon came back, fired up the ride and let us go around quite a few times.

Another little coaster close by, we'd check that one out next.

Caterpillar Coaster belonged to another showman, or showwoman to be precise who wouldn't let us ride despite our best attempts. The train looked pretty cool!

There's a lengthy midway that led up to the arenas at the top of the hill. We'd seen all the coasters at the bottom of the hill and up here were more games and smaller rides.

For the lazy there was a chairlift ride which would take you up some of the way.

Dried bananas? I'm only aware of them being good for smoking to get high :D

This is a rather different looking wheel variant.

A bullfight that I don't mind talking about. We have these in the UK where you try to stay on the ride as it does its best to throw you off. 

The final ride on the midway was the booster. 

There are a number of exhibition halls and outside one of them a good attempt at a live dinosaur model.

Inside the hall some freaky costumes.

There was a small amusement arcade. 

and a real nice carousel.

West Coast Customs, the crew from Pimp My Ride were in attendance with a small number of car mods that they'd done. The Mystery Machine was my favourite.

For dinner Thomas ordered the small burrito.

I went for some random steak thing. The food wasn't bad.

We had done the rides and had dinner, what else was there to do?

In the run up to the trip it was announced that Paul Oakenfold was going to be playing at the Fair and with the agreement of the other two we were able to swap the itinerary about to attend the day he was playing. He was initially due to be playing at 8.

When we got to the music stage at the top of the hill we could see the crowd starting to gather as the rather good warm up DJ was playing. I don't know who he was but he had the crowd cheering and dancing. Mexican raves are great because they're all so short it's easy to see the stage with the only people getting in the view being the people selling drinks and sweets, something more raves could do with. It makes a change from dealers.

The warm up DJ finished and we were already for Paul to start his set when unfortunately a second DJ started playing. It looked like the set times had been changed and Paul would now be on too late for us to see as we had to drive back to Mexico City. Poo!

So we started the walk back to the car and by now the sun had gone down and the rides were all well lit.

This is a rather cool monument we passed on the way out. It marks the entrance into (or in our case the exit out of) the city of Puebla.

Nice city, nice people, nice fair and its just a shame we missed the set, but I've seen Paul many times before so it wasn't a bucket list thing or anything like that.

and this marked the end of this stay in Mexico City. Tomorrow we'd be flying into Cuba.

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