After eating dinner and meeting Victor's family they invited us to stay with them for the night and also with them in Puebla. The next morning we followed them to the city and established our base camp at their home. They showed the outmost hospitality towards us and made us feel like family. We took a few days to settle in and Victor gave us a tour of the town and helped us find certain things we needed for the bike. He also brought us to Cholula which is a neighboring city. Cholula is a place where in pre Hispanic times priests gathered from all the city's around and performed all kinds of rituals. A lot of Pyramids were built and human sacrifices were held there. Every 52 years the people would cover the Pyramids with dirt to hide them and prepare for what they thought was the new age coming. After the Spanish came to establish them selves, since the early 1500 's they built over 360 different churches to change the old ways of thinking. To symbolize the era changing they built a beautiful church on top of the biggest Pyramid. It's a beautiful place to visit and a must see if being in the area. While we were there we saw some local kids doing some break dancing. They were the best break dancer's we had ever seen.
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