Pachuca, Huasca de Ocampo, and the Basaltic Prisms - Easy day trip from Mexico City!
Pachuca, Huasca de Ocampo, and the Basaltic Prisms (Los Prismas Basalticos) are three more places you should see in Mexico! Even better, the three of them are very close and could easily be done on a day trip (or overnight like I did) from Mexico City.
Pachuca is the capital of Hidalgo State. The city is known as 'La Bella Airosa' which literally translates to 'The Beautiful Airy City' as it is SO windy in Pachuca! While there are many cool things to see in Pachuca such as the Monumental Clock Tower which has the same internal mechanisms as Big Ben in London, the giant mural neighborhood of Palmitas which is considered one of the biggest murals in the world (over 200 houses participated in the mural), and the Cristo Rey statue which overlooks the city, my favorite thing in Pachuca is the mosaic at Parque Gurion! It's easy to get to Parque Gurion on the metrobus or by taxi. In the middle of the park is a huge mosaic which was made using over 7,000,000 tiles!
From Pachuca it is very easy to get to Huasca de Ocampo - the first Pueblo Magico in Mexico! Huasca de Ocampo is an adorable little town less than an hour from Pachuca. You can take a combi (shared bus/van thing) from Pachuca to Huasca de Ocampo for 21 pesos ( ~$1 usd) and it takes 50 minutes.
From Huasca de Ocampo it is so easy to get to the Basaltic Prisms! The Basaltic Prisms had been on my Mexico bucket list for a while and they did not disappoint!! They are about a 10 minute taxi ride from Huasca de Ocampo. It's 100 pesos ($5 usd) to enter the prisms. The prisms are tall hexagonal shaped columns that were formed by lava coming into contact with water and cooling very slowly. At the Basaltic Prisms you can see hundreds of columns and multiple waterfalls. There is a hanging bridge across the canyon and you can also zipline over it.
00:09 Pachuca
01:12 Parque David Ben Gurion
02:46 Huasca de Ocampo
04:44 The Basaltic Prisms
09:09 Back to Pachuca
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