La Mina

The mine!

Zacatecas is famous for it's mine. For over 300 years slaves and children dug this mine out without using any dynamite. Our guide said that between 8-10 people died everyday for 300 years. The children had to work in the mine when their parents died to "pay off their debt"...was super sad to hear that!

In order to enter the mine you have to wear a yellow hard hat and hair net (super nice...not) and then take a little train that has glass surrounding it. Our tour guide kept making fun of us because when he asked us where we were from we said Torreon and he was like no...like where do you live and we answered Torreon he was just getting frustrated with us. I felt pretty good about this day because the tour was all in Spanish and yet I understood everything he was saying! He liked us so much that he gaves us each a stone to keep :-)

Inside their a statue that supposedly if girls rub his tummy and touch the rock in his hand you will have good luck for the rest of your life. The men have to hold his gun and touch the stone in order to have good luck.

It was kinda creepy because once the tour was over they say you can leave with the tour guide or you can walk out the other entrance to the cable car. This is what we did, but there is no guide and you just follow random arrows...major difference between america and mexico! We would never let people wander a historical site where they could get lost or hurt or damage something by themselves!

Also interesting info about the mine is that during the day it's a touristic attraction, but at night it turns into a club. It's the worlds first mine club. now there are like 4 one in mexico, germany, australia and somewhere else.