San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) Update: 1 Night

October 2021

We spent another day and night in San Miguel de Allende with 6 friends as part of an outing from Guanajuato. This time we decided to do a guided tour so that we would learn a bit more about the town. I booked a private tour for our group organized by a non profit outfit, Historical Walking Tour of San Miguel de Allende, benefiting an organization that provides free health care to local children. It cost $20/person for the tour, which was not cheap for Mexico, but it was for a good cause.

We met our guide in front of the Allende Historical Museum, and he took us around town armed with good historical background stories. We could not go inside of the buildings because of the pandemic, but we still learned a lot from the tour.

We stayed at an Airbnb house which had a rooftop with a view to kill for! (pictured above) It was a very artsy, spacious place with enough room for our group of 8. It cost about $25/person with 8 people sharing with the pandemic discount.

We walked up the street looking for breakfast the next morning & stumbled upon Petit Four, a wonderful bakery cafe. The morning grew brighter just from being in this beautiful setting. The food was wonderful, too.

We all needed to do some souvenir shopping, so we walked over to an artisan market. We began finding things for our kids and grand kids, but, in the end, we decided getting something for ourselves was fun, too.

The best experience of being in SMA is the slow, aimless walking around. You never know what you will encounter or where you will end up for lunch, in this case, Los Milagros. If it were in the U.S., I would’ve said we had found an interesting restaurant with great food. But, being in SMA, I can just say it was a low key local restaurant with solid food.

We had arranged a van for 8 people ($126) through gettransfer.com, but the provider sent us two sedans instead. It didn’t matter, and we got back to Guanajuato in under 90 minutes.

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