Today we're visiting a hacienda. An old, historic house where they use traditional methods to make cotton out of the agave plant. We were taken through each stage of the process and were shown how each machine works and the vital steps needed to create the final product. The machines were slightly modernised here, running on electricity rather than the traditional steam engine, but the processes were still the same!
The plant is cut and stacked and separated into the machines where it is stripped,
Next it's hung out to dry, ready to be thinned,
After the material is smoothed with a massive hairbrush, it's turned into rope..
A simple and fascinating in site into how a common plant in Mexico can be turned into a host of useful items.
Next, we visited the sites very own Cenote. An almost completely covered body of water lead to a very cold swim, but we just couldn't resist!
Cenotes really are gorgeous, such a unique feature of the Mexican landscape, needless to say this wasn't my last visit!
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