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"Yes, we were in La Cueva Cuata for six hours and never got to the end of it – finally crawled out at two in the morning!"

Pinar de la Venta, where I live, is a fraccionamiento located eight kilometers west of Guadalajara and nestled in a mile-high forest– wherein reside all sorts of creatures.

Many years ago, deep inside the most primitive part of the Primavera Forest, I came upon a network of beautifully paved roads which meandered over and around rolling hills covered with pine trees, while skirting the deep, jagged canyons so typical of this forest.

A number of years ago, I was chatting with the guard at Guadalajara’s 1,000-year-old Ixtepete Pyramid, located at the west end of the city. As is my custom, I naturally asked him if he knew of any caves in the area.

I first saw them in the delightful little museum of Ameca, located 60 kilometers west of Guadalajara.

El Puente de Dios, or God’s Bridge, is located 133 kilometers straight south of the town of Chapala. “It’s a big, beautiful cave with two arched entrances, through which a river flows for something like 200 meters,” I was told, with the assurance that, “there’s nothing else like it anywhere in western Mexico.”