sur real

So yeah... It's hard to know where to start with Las Pozas, cause half the stuff we write, you won't believe (cept Julia and Stuart) But here it is... There was this wealthy guy (Edward James), who may or may not have been the illegitamate child of british royalty. Anyway, he was a huge patron of the arts and really got into surrealism, I mean really got into it. In fact, he liked it so much he decided to live a surreal life in the lowland jungles of San Luis Potosi near the town of Xilitla. One of his good friends was Salvador Dali who said Sir James was the real surrealist thing. Sir James began to build, basically a surrealist playground, filled with structures and stairs and columns and brightly painted things surrounded by the flowering jungles. In addition to all the crazy buildings-sculptures, he also built fantastic pools in the river with amazing waterfalls, stairs, deep pools for swimming and more. This whole garden is now a magical park that is ever so slowly reverting to jungle. We found as we explored many more structures,pools areobjects other than those in the official park, who knows how far his surrealism spread? It was a magical experience, swimming in a cool jungle pool watching the enormous butterflies float by on the breeze. Exploring little used paths off through the jungle to a forgotten round gate and through it to more pools in the river and a huge set of stairs on the other side covered in vines and who knows where it may have gone...