Opal Mines anmeldelser, Tequisquiapan
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jose alberto m
Cancun, Mexico2 bidrag
feb. 2022
la transportacion y los caminos rurales dejan que desear, aunque la experiencia se hacerla de minero compensa un poco el ajetreo, no lo recomiendo para adultos mayores y persona que no guste del polvo y sol.
Acudir con ropa casual, bloqueador sombrero y algo de agua-
Acudir con ropa casual, bloqueador sombrero y algo de agua-
Skrevet 6. mai 2022
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il od
Mexico City, Mexico27 bidrag
des. 2021 • Alene
Es una experiencia única el visitar la mina, conocer la historia milenaria de los minerales y buscar ópalos. La plática y explicación en el taller del señor Héctor fue muy interesante, además del buen trato. Les invito a visitar este lindo tour que es único y obligado.
Skrevet 2. desember 2021
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Mireille N
Villedieu, Frankrike114 bidrag
nov. 2021
l'accès se fait en 4/4 en passant par de beaux paysages. La visite de la mine est très intéressante et bien organisée, de belles collections de pierres
Skrevet 30. november 2021
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Ricky R
Mexico City, Mexico4 bidrag
jan. 2020 • Venner
Muy divertida e interesante excursión y las vistas de 10!!!
En definitiva es una visita obligada si vas a Tequisquiapan.
En definitiva es una visita obligada si vas a Tequisquiapan.
Skrevet 16. januar 2020
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blondepenguin
Queretaro City, Mexico256 bidrag
mar. 2019 • Familie
This tour involves a ride out to the boonies then getting in back of a pick up to go up to the mines, the tour guides help kids (and adults if your nice lol) bust rocks and find opals, if you need to relieve some stress and break some things and maybe find a treasure this is fun. I wouldn’t take a kid under 8 tho because it’s quite a bumpy ride up the mountain.
Skrevet 17. november 2019
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edis k
Ciudad Victoria, Mexico83 bidrag
nov. 2019 • Venner
Lo mejor de todo es el guía Omar muy atento y le gusta su chamba , el perrito blanco y oscuro que siguen a Omar ida y vuelta a la mina , una realidad es que no ves fauna y de flora no se ve nada destacable , el sr Héctor te recibe sobre la calle te da un precio y la esposa te cobra de mas (cuiden eso), son 7km en una camioneta de redilas que en cualquier momento se cae al vacío por dos razones por la mala condición del camino o por lo viejita de la camioneta. Llegando a la mina realmente lo único qué hay son letras pra tomarte foto, una cueva que no tiene nada y está muy pequeña, y micro piedras que picas para medio encontrar algo, vas entre lomas y nopales, no se logra ver una buena vista , la vdd si tienen algo mejor que hacer vayan a otro lado.
Skrevet 1. november 2019
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Jan G
2 bidrag
aug. 2019
I was staying in Queretaro and requested an Uber. The driver had never been to La Trinidad or heard of the opal mines. The drive seemed long. We went through Tequisqiapan, which turned out to be a bigger city than I had expected. I think it would have been better if I had gone with a tour and had my transportation there and back. As it was, I paid the Uber driver to wait and drive me back.
We got to La Trinidad and found the tour office, where there were clean restrooms and bottles of cold water for sale. We watched Hector Montes polishing very small opals on his polisher. His small granddaughter [I think] was there and he set her to polishing as well. It was cute. Hector spoke slowly, in Spanish, and I was able, from the context, to understand almost everything he was telling me, which was nice.
It took awhile before other people came and paid. I think it was probably an hour before we got into the back of the truck, which had a strong metal cage to hold on to and a shade cloth overhead.
The tour was supposed to be in Spanish, which I was OK with, because I mostly just wanted the experience, but then a man named Alex showed up and said he was going to be my English tour guide, which I thought was super nice. Nine Spanish speakers and one Anglo, and I got a translator!
Alex drove the truck over the totally rocky, very rutted track on the way up the mountain. There were two big dogs that followed us from the office and kept jumping into and out of the back of the truck and running ahead. At one point, another truck was coming down, and we had to back up about a block, before there was a place we could pull in and wait for them to get past.
It was a very long, very, very bumpy ride up to the mine. I had to hold on tight. On the way up, I was in the back, where it was hard to keep my back from knocking into the heavy iron bars with the big bumps. On the way back, I sat in the front of the truck bed, where I could hold onto the bars in front of me and lean back and to the inside, and keep from being rammed into anything. I knew, from reading reviews of the tour online, that it was going to be rocky and bumpy, so I was mentally prepared for it.
It was beautiful, though. Hundreds of yellow butterflies. Lots of trees and flowers and cacti. Some cows. One stretch of burned land and cacti; Alex said later that it was a bad fire that had burned for 3 days.
At the top of the mountain, we took photos and listened to Alex's talk. They have had the right from the government to work that area for, I believe, the past 125 years. The largest opal ever to come out of that area was one the size of a lemon; it's in a museum in New York and is worth millions of dollars. Alex pointed out another area across the way where they had previously mined; they've gone over that cliff face three times, because it's easy to miss finding opals inside the rocks.
Alex brought out a small fuse, which we were told was an explosive, and which he put in a hole in the rock. One of the visitors lit it and yelled run, and then we all ran, only to discover it was a dud, or so we thought. Actually, there was no explosive; it was just a demonstration that if an explosive seems to be a dud, you stay away from it for days to make sure.
Then, we went into a small dug out [exploded out] cave, where it was dark and dank and cool and where, with the light from Alex's flashlight, we could see opals in the veins. This cave is just to show tourists what they expect to see.
But that's not actually where the miners work. They work in the sun, in front of the cliff face, so they can see the shine and glitter of the opal, not under the ground where it's dark. Alex said that a worker can work for a month and find nothing and earn nothing, but if he has good luck, he can find enough opal in one vein to make enough income for a whole year.
Alex asked lots of questions and whoever could answer got a small piece of opal. He was a very good guide and a good translator.
Then we were given tools that had hand hewn handles and hand forged iron hammers on one side to break off pieces of rock with and flat picks on the other side to dig with. He demonstrated how to break off an edge of a rock and then look to see if there is an opal and then repeat.
We walked up to a place where we could hammer pieces of rock to see if we found any opals inside, but after a bit, Alex showed us that we could just look on the ground. The workers explode rock and then carry it up to that spot for the tourists to more easily find pieces of opal. It was hot in the sun and hard work bending over, looking for the glitter, and picking up pieces, and doing it over and over. It's obviously a very hard job.
But I found some rocks with little opals in them. I had a super time, because it felt like a real adventure. And the weather was beautiful. And being up on top of the mountain was beautiful. And being around the people I was with was beautiful. And it left me feeling totally tranquillo.
The ride down seemed faster, which it probably was, because the truck had had to really labor going up. The truck made lots of loud groans and metallic shrieks. I could see that the drive is very hard on trucks, and, in fact, there were workers re-building an engine of a truck in front of the office.
All in all, a great time, well worth the small amount of money and the time.
We got to La Trinidad and found the tour office, where there were clean restrooms and bottles of cold water for sale. We watched Hector Montes polishing very small opals on his polisher. His small granddaughter [I think] was there and he set her to polishing as well. It was cute. Hector spoke slowly, in Spanish, and I was able, from the context, to understand almost everything he was telling me, which was nice.
It took awhile before other people came and paid. I think it was probably an hour before we got into the back of the truck, which had a strong metal cage to hold on to and a shade cloth overhead.
The tour was supposed to be in Spanish, which I was OK with, because I mostly just wanted the experience, but then a man named Alex showed up and said he was going to be my English tour guide, which I thought was super nice. Nine Spanish speakers and one Anglo, and I got a translator!
Alex drove the truck over the totally rocky, very rutted track on the way up the mountain. There were two big dogs that followed us from the office and kept jumping into and out of the back of the truck and running ahead. At one point, another truck was coming down, and we had to back up about a block, before there was a place we could pull in and wait for them to get past.
It was a very long, very, very bumpy ride up to the mine. I had to hold on tight. On the way up, I was in the back, where it was hard to keep my back from knocking into the heavy iron bars with the big bumps. On the way back, I sat in the front of the truck bed, where I could hold onto the bars in front of me and lean back and to the inside, and keep from being rammed into anything. I knew, from reading reviews of the tour online, that it was going to be rocky and bumpy, so I was mentally prepared for it.
It was beautiful, though. Hundreds of yellow butterflies. Lots of trees and flowers and cacti. Some cows. One stretch of burned land and cacti; Alex said later that it was a bad fire that had burned for 3 days.
At the top of the mountain, we took photos and listened to Alex's talk. They have had the right from the government to work that area for, I believe, the past 125 years. The largest opal ever to come out of that area was one the size of a lemon; it's in a museum in New York and is worth millions of dollars. Alex pointed out another area across the way where they had previously mined; they've gone over that cliff face three times, because it's easy to miss finding opals inside the rocks.
Alex brought out a small fuse, which we were told was an explosive, and which he put in a hole in the rock. One of the visitors lit it and yelled run, and then we all ran, only to discover it was a dud, or so we thought. Actually, there was no explosive; it was just a demonstration that if an explosive seems to be a dud, you stay away from it for days to make sure.
Then, we went into a small dug out [exploded out] cave, where it was dark and dank and cool and where, with the light from Alex's flashlight, we could see opals in the veins. This cave is just to show tourists what they expect to see.
But that's not actually where the miners work. They work in the sun, in front of the cliff face, so they can see the shine and glitter of the opal, not under the ground where it's dark. Alex said that a worker can work for a month and find nothing and earn nothing, but if he has good luck, he can find enough opal in one vein to make enough income for a whole year.
Alex asked lots of questions and whoever could answer got a small piece of opal. He was a very good guide and a good translator.
Then we were given tools that had hand hewn handles and hand forged iron hammers on one side to break off pieces of rock with and flat picks on the other side to dig with. He demonstrated how to break off an edge of a rock and then look to see if there is an opal and then repeat.
We walked up to a place where we could hammer pieces of rock to see if we found any opals inside, but after a bit, Alex showed us that we could just look on the ground. The workers explode rock and then carry it up to that spot for the tourists to more easily find pieces of opal. It was hot in the sun and hard work bending over, looking for the glitter, and picking up pieces, and doing it over and over. It's obviously a very hard job.
But I found some rocks with little opals in them. I had a super time, because it felt like a real adventure. And the weather was beautiful. And being up on top of the mountain was beautiful. And being around the people I was with was beautiful. And it left me feeling totally tranquillo.
The ride down seemed faster, which it probably was, because the truck had had to really labor going up. The truck made lots of loud groans and metallic shrieks. I could see that the drive is very hard on trucks, and, in fact, there were workers re-building an engine of a truck in front of the office.
All in all, a great time, well worth the small amount of money and the time.
Skrevet 1. september 2019
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jonathan c
1 bidrag
jul. 2019 • Par
Excelente recorrido, hermosa la mina, se ve que les encanta lo que hacen, super recomendado es una visita obligada
Skrevet 28. juli 2019
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cecilia d
3 bidrag
jul. 2019 • Familie
Fuimos a la mina El Redentor. Además de aprender sobre los ópalos y tesoros que tenemos en México y de lo arduo que es la labor de los mineros, el paseo es más que divertido y placentero. Inició con un recorrido en todo terreno para llegar a la cima de la montaña. Después la explicación y luego nos convertimos en mineros. Finalmente, nos explicaron más sobre la formación de los ópalos y fuimos al taller, donde Don Hector nos mostró como se pulen los ópalos. Experiencia maravillosa de contacto con la naturaleza
Skrevet 12. juli 2019
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Alfredo S
Bilbao, Spania105 bidrag
jul. 2019
Fuimos mineros por un día con 2 niñas de 5 y 10 años y la experiencia fue fantástica, inicialmente nos atendió Saul, quien nos explicó todo lo relacionado con el ópalo, su historia, sus características principales, diferentes tipos de ópalos, calidades, orígenes ... todo muy instructivo e interesante. Posteriormente fuimos a la mina de abajo con Juan Carlos, quien nos ayudó con todo, nos enseñó a distinguir diversos tipos de ópalo, sus calidades ...lo pasamos genial, muy recomendable, con y sin niños, de verdad, merece la pena, por la propia experiencia en la mina y por las personas que participan en la organización, todas muy amables y verdaderamente encantadoras !!!
Skrevet 8. juli 2019
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Davey_Ziegler_1
14 bidrag
I will be there in January and may go to this attraction. How much walking is involved? I had foot surgery and need to try and limit my steps. Would it be possible to only walk the equivalent of a couple blocks and still get to and from the site?
Jan G
2 bidrag
You get in an open vehicle and are driven to the site. You walk a very short distance (a few yards) and listen to a talk, walk another very short distance to look in a cave, walk another short way, climbing a bit on rough, rocky ground where you stand and look for small opals in rocks. Then walk back to the vehicle. Altogether, less than two blocks, if that. There is a lot of standing. A fun, interesting outing.
Who did you call to book the tour? How long was it to drive there and the Uber cost plus tour. Do you know of any other mine tours and digs? My daughter and I are rock hounds and I leave tomorrow for puerto Vallarta and must go digging. On my 60th bucket list. Any help would truly be appreciated.
Renata
Merida, Mexico2 bidrag
Hola! Como se transporta uno en Tequisquiapan? Hay uber o taxis?
eucariojosegomezp
Cancun, Mexico20 bidrag
Las dos cosas, cambio y autobuses tmb
Alfrangie
Mexico City, Mexico
Hola, disculpen ¿Alguien podría indicarme cómo puedo llegar a Tequisquiapan desde Querétaro en transporte público y como regresarme de Tequisquiapan a Querétaro? Gracias
eucariojosegomezp
Cancun, Mexico20 bidrag
Puedes acceder por transporte público desde y hacia, existen autobuses, combis y también agencias de viajes que te venden tours por dia.
Piggygoesoink
Sydney, Australia44 bidrag
Hi, how can I get here by public transport from Querétaro?
Global474762
1 bidrag
hola!!, tengo dudas: si encuentro ópalos en la mina, me los cobran después o me los puedo llevar?
llega vehiculo hasta la mina para abuelitos muy abuelitos y quieran bajar?
gracias
Alemar100
Mexico City, Mexico29 bidrag
Hola, te comento: si llegaras a encontrar un ópalo de valor considerable es tuyo, incluso el guía hace hincapié en esto, así que asegúrate de escuchar bien las instrucciones y deja que tu ópalo te encuentre¡
En lo referente al meta de los adultos mayores, te puedo decir que el viaje del pueblo a la mina es un poco incomodo, aun y cuando son camionetas con tablones, quizás podrías llevar a tus abuelitos en la cabina sería un poco más cómodo. El transporte te deja en la boca de la mina y ahí el desplazamiento es fácil.
Bonny piont
17 bidrag
How much time to we need for the actual tour once we buy the tickets?
Evan M
2 bidrag
I cant remember exactly. I think its 20-30 min to and from the mine, and I think around 90 min at the mine itself.
OkieSusan
Perkins, OK137 bidrag
Four of us are visiting in November and I'm the only one in our group who speaks Spanish. Are there those giving the tour who speak English? Thank you!
Leticia T
Boston, MA3 bidrag
The owner of the opal museum and shop does not speak English, but he was patient and waited for me to translate to my non-Spanish speaking family.
The person who took us up to the mines spoke some English; enough to communicate with English speakers. There may be other guides as well, and I don't know if all can communicate in English.
Er det noe som mangler eller er unøyaktig?
Foreslå endringer for å forbedre det vi viser.
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