After leaving Guadalajara Wednesday morning and arriving in Uruapan (state of Michoacan), we dropped our bags and headed to the nearby town of Paracho, famous for its guitar making and home to the National Fair of Guitars that was happening that week. While there were a lot of guitars on display and a guitar-making competition, as well as a giant guitar statue that welcomes you to town, there were also a lot of non-guitar related things as well. Like the normal carnival rides (now avoiding those after the last incident), Polynesian dancers, fireworks, flaming balloons, and a lot of crafts from the areas (known for woodworking, textiles, pottery, and copper). 
UruapanLike Guadalajara, there is a park very close to Uruapan, this park, Parque Nacional Barranca del Cupatizio, is a lush leafy park with stone walkways and waterfalls. There is even a “catch-your-own” rainbow trout place.
The other highlight of Uruapan is the world’s narrowest house. Evidently 4 people really did live in the house for 15 years, but moved out after it was added to the Guinness Book of World Records and opened it up to the public. It is 4 stories tall and is only 1.4 meters wide.
Tzararacua
For the afternoon adventure we went to Tzararacua, a huge waterfall that you can hike down to. The one downside is that while the national park in Uruapan has nice, clean water, this waterfall is located downstream of the city and is carrying a fair amount of sewage and trash. So while pretty to look at, the spray of the falls is not so refreshing as you avoid getting any of it in your mouth. An attempt to hike upstream and find some other waterfalls was foiled by locked gates, but there was a good picnic spot above a dam at the firewatch tower, far away from the splash of fecal coliform.
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