XILITLA. SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXIC0 - Hola Amigos! Welcome back to San Luis Potosi! This time you're getting 3 amazing points of interest in the Huasteca Potosina region in one video! Firstly, we check out the magic town, Xilitla, where we have the dish famous to the area - Enchiladas Huastecas con cecina (dried meat). We then move on to the bizarre and surreal Edward James Garden - information on this you can find below!
MUSIC -
Milo's Journey - Sum Wave (Intro & Outro)
Rhythmic Acoustic Guitar 17 - Anders Ekengren (Xilitla)
Revolt - Luwaks (Edward James Garden & Waterfall)
ALL MUSIC FROM EPIDEMIC SOUND
**EDWARD JAMES GARDEN INFO (WIKIPEDIA**
Las Pozas (the Pools/the Wells) is a surrealistic group of structures created by Edward James, more than 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level, in a subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres (32 ha) of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures in concrete.
Las Pozas is near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, a seven-hour drive north of Mexico City. In the early 1940s, James went to Los Angeles, California, and then decided that he wanted a Garden of Eden set up . . . and I saw that Mexico was far more romantic and had far more room than there is in crowded Southern California. In Hollywood in 1941, his lifetime friend and cousin, Magic Realist painter Bridget Bate Tichenor, encouraged him to search for a surreal location in Mexico to express his diverse esoteric interests. In Cuernavaca, he hired Plutarco Gastelum as a guide. They came to know Xilitla in November 1945. Eventually, Plutarco got married and had four children. James was Uncle Edward to the children and frequently stayed with them in a house Plutarco had built, a mock-Gothic cement castle, now a hotel – La Posada El Castillo.
Between 1949 and 1984, James built scores of surreal concrete structures which carry the names The House on Three Floors Which Will in Fact Have Five or Four or Six, The House with a Roof like a Whale, and The Staircase to Heaven. There were also plantings and beds full of tropical plants, including orchids — there were, apparently, 29,000 at Las Pozas at one time — and a variety of small homes, niches, and pens that held exotic birds and wild animals from the world over—James owned many exotic animals and once even took his pet boa constrictors to the Hotel Francis in Mexico City.
Massive sculptures up to four stories tall punctuate the site. The many trails throughout the garden site are composed of steps, ramps, bridges and narrow, winding walkways that traverse the valley walls. Construction of Las Pozas cost more than $5 million. To pay for it, James sold his collection of surrealistic art at an auction.