With Juan Manuel

Juan Manuel is a shaman who knows the flowers ... plants ... herbs ... and birds ... with a vast knowledge of the area, the history and the folk lore of San Miguel de Allende ... who wants to share his joy in the campo.


What do we do? We take a walk in the campo ... have a picnic or bar-b-q ... and usually take a burro to carry what we don’t want to. Occasionally we ride a burro.


Burro Trekking has recently been optimized in that all treks are now custom designed for you and your group.


If you want a trek ... Contact us and we will begin working together. What kind of trek do you want? Easy? Challenging? Overnight? Something from our list? Something new? Something for kids? (They trek at half price.) Talk to us!!


Unless otherwise noted, for a short day trek prices are 200 each with a minimum of 1,000 pesos. If transportation has to be arranged ...that is ... more than 3 people need a ride provided ... then there is an extra fee.


For a longer day trek, it is 250 per person, with a minimum of 1,200 pesos. Transportation same as above


These prices include food ... burro ... some transportation ... perhaps a guard for the vehicles.


If you would like to add to your group, then we can help you advertise on the forum and / or we can send out a mailing to see if other Trekkers would like to join you.


You get to decide things like ... we want dogs ... or ... no dogs cause we want quiet times to watch for birds. You can specify no smokers. You decide if time is important to you cause you have an evening appointment ... or ... we are relaxed and let the day have its way with us.



Changing info, like dates, is in the blog to your left

Descriptions, photos and fixed info is to your right


This site is designed to be interactive. Email us ('contacting us' right column) or leave comments below entries.



Reservations are by email. Use link in each trek description ... or ... see Contacting Us in your right column.


Trek: Aqua Espina


This trek is for those who feel the need to get out of Dodge for a bit ... Burro Fitness.   It is relatively near by, relatively level, relatively short, still feels like a trek, and you get to see interesting things and meet nice people.  Those interesting things include first a canyon, where we sit under an oak tree for a rest and do some bird watching.  After that we loop back and sideways to a little known pyramid and surrounding ruins.  

We call these kind of treks ... Trekking for Dummies.  If you are laughing, you are our kind of people.  We learned early on that people who like to move are good people.  And our kind of moving doesn’t even involve competition.  Just clean air, movement, laughing, camaraderie  ... and when we return is like we had a mini-vacation ... all the cobwebs of the mind ... gone.

I find that by trekking regularly .... combined with other simple exercises ... my fitness and ability to do the more challenging treks is increasing.  

Reservations are by email.  Click here to reserve.

Driving 40 minutes, 20 minutes one way
Trekking More like 2 hours including clambering around on the pyramid 
Lunch A really good deli sandwich on a crossant.  Still tastes better out here. 
Cost 200 pesos 
Level Anyone, but designed as easy  
Meet Bodega  9:30 am ... (request Mega if that is easier for you.)

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