Xilitla Resources |
| The Town |
| El Castillo |
| Convent of San Agustin |
| Las Pozas |
| - The Garden |
| - A Short Tour |
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A Trip through the Enchanted Gardens of Edward James
Sept. 2000
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Our walk through the garden at Las Pozas started off with a path guiding us through a giant ring-gate and along the Walkway of the Serpents.
The path, bordered with luxuriant vegetation, was lined with ondulating, open-mouthed concrete snakes and mushroom-like structures.
Passing a small gift shop, the Casa de los Pericos and a series of 3 small bungalows, we climbed upward, passing over, under and through various phantasmagorical structures, winding pathways and stairs to a colorful, floral-like fountain.
Each turn brought us new visual delights - the tall, swaying (but concrete) bamboo blending into the surroundings, steps twisting into the undergrowth, towers rising out of the ferns and other vegetation that grew closely on all sides.
We climbed railing-less stairways leading to flat areas atop pedestals, not unlike toadstools.
These platforms afforded us incredible views of the ravine with it's sculptures poking into the sky like ancient ruins, and glimpses of the waterfall that fed the pozas (pools).
Walking onto a bridge that lead nowhere except into space, we followed a small downward path that seemed more of a stone watershed channel, toward the crystal clear, turquoise and crisply cold pools themselves, where a number of young boys were cavorting, diving off the sides of the path into the water below.
Near closing time, we spent our last moments on the site exploring the spiral structures and stairways that dominate the entrance to this realm of fantasy.
