I spent a night in the Gardner hostel in El Paso – the hostel is located in the nice old building. Try almost century-old lift… and have a fun.
Then I put my backpack on and walked like a mile to the land border crossing from the USA to Juarez – Mexico. Remember to find US immigration post for the formalities – it is not easy…
Juarez has the very bad opinion to be the high-crime town. Drugs, smuggling… But what the soldiers were looking for just in my backpack?…
I took few pictures of the old mission and the much younger cathedral on the green but small Plaza the Armas and went by junk city bus /6 pesos/ to the camionera. What is camionera? In Mexico they almost never say -bus station- they call it camionera…
One ticket to Chihuahua please… 310 pesos…
One dollar is worth 13 pesos…
After 5.5 hours drive through the picturesque half-desert I disembarked in Chihuahua.
Ah Chihuahua… They have nice little hotel in the old town worth to recommend – El Jardin del Centro… 280 pesos per great room wih hot water and TV. I do not care about TV but no other choice… I had still enough time to visit the house-museum of Pancho Villa – bandit and the national hero, who knows?… Very busy but what a great day…
