We returned to the repair garage and we found an unofficial exit and entrance to the toll road,
some enterprising citizens have found a way around the pirates of the road "las casetas de cobro" if you look closely you can find a number of this entrances and exits, this is a way of showing the "piratas" what happens when they bypass a town, we cautiously followed our new found road, wide enough for one car fortunately there wasn't too much traffic so we manged quite well. After about 15 kilometer we reached the town of San Ignacio, Sinaloa to our surprise it was the most beautiful town we had seen so far. We crossed the Piaxtla river and drove through the welcoming arch of the beautiful town, we drove straight to the plaza square I parked under the purple canopy of a tree while. As I walked around with a "raspado de tamarindo" tamarind flavored shaved iced in my hand, with out doubt this is the most relaxing atmosphere we've found so far. Javier armed with the last name of his in laws began questioning some of the citizens who were taking in the mid day sun. He found three homes that match the name and after the third one he found them. They were so pleased to see him that they gave us a tour of the entire town. The town was named San Ignacio de Layola by the Jesuit missionaries who did their best to covert the Piaxtla indians to the catholic religion. In 1748 gold mining was at its' prime the Spanish continued mining until it went dry. The present citizens are very proud of their picturesque town and are trying to keep it historically true to the classical colonial period. The town fathers had a majestic, gigantic monument of Jesus Christ on top of a hill with open arms watching over the town and its faithful citizens. Another of the town jewels is the Jesuit mission which was renovated into El hotel Anjolin.
After a wonderful meal we departed this restful place and we were quickly in our way to Tepic, we arrived late in the afternoon and not liking what we saw crowds, traffic congestion and more congestion we decided to go to the adjacent town, San Ixtlan de rio we walked around a bit in this non non-descript town, tasted the tacos "al pastor" not being impressed. We called it a night.
top left: Welcome to San Ignacio
top right: view of the town
lower left: Statue of Christ looking over its' town
lower right view of the towns' church
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