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• Swirling Swifts from the Center of the Earth – Aquisimon, Mexico

  Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 2 May 2010

  At 1,220  feet from top to bottom, the Cave of  Swallows (Sótano de las Golondrinas in Spanish) in San Luis Potosi state in Central Mexico is the largest cave shaft in the world, the second deepest pit in Mexico and the 11th deepest in the world. The karst cave is also home to tens of thousands of white-collared swifts (not swallows, despite the cave’s name) who emerge from their deep, dark home every morning in a spectacle we were not about to miss despite the fact that it required a 5:30 am  journey in the dark up 13 miles of rough road.

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• Crazytechture – Xilitla, Mexico

  Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 26 April 2010

  Many people say we’re crazy when they hear that we’re driving hundreds of thousands of miles through The Americas. However, our Trans-Americas Journey often takes us to places where crazy (in a good way) is truly defined. Like Las Pozas (the pools) outside a tiny town called Xilitla in the hills of  the Huasteca region of San Luis Potosi state.

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