Comments on: Video: Mexico's butterfly reserve alights in the soul http://www.thevideoreporter.com/2009/03/23/video-mexicos-butterfly-reserve-alights-in-the-soul/ The Video Reporter Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim Miller http://www.thevideoreporter.com/2009/03/23/video-mexicos-butterfly-reserve-alights-in-the-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Jim Miller Thu, 07 May 2009 18:45:41 +0000 http://www.mexicoreporter.com/?p=1848#comment-507 We visited the butterfly reserve several years ago. It was well worth the trip. We live in Guadalajara,so we drove to Morelia and stayed in a nice hotel on the zocalo. From the hotel we booked a guide to drive us out to the butterfly reserve. We thought that as we didn't know our way around it would be a good investment,plus we used his car. It turned out to be a wise choice. The roadway into the reserve was awful, very muddy and deeply rutted. My guess is the damage to the guide's car was at least worth what we paid him. After visiting various national parks in the US,Canada,Europe,and Africa, we were very disappointed by the butterfly reserve. The place was filthy-trash everywhere. And for the one-two k walk we took we were besieged by people selling postcards, souvenirs, soft drinks,renting horses,etc. The lady at the ticket booth was very rude to our guide and wasn't very pleasant with us either. The reserve is worth at least one visit,but Mexico needs to pay a little more attention to caring for their national parks,and to make the visit a more pleasant experience. Mexico needs the tourism money,especially now. We visited the butterfly reserve several years ago. It was well worth the trip. We live in Guadalajara,so we drove to Morelia and stayed in a nice hotel on the zocalo. From the hotel we booked a guide to drive us out to the butterfly reserve. We thought that as we didn’t know our way around it would be a good investment,plus we used his car.

It turned out to be a wise choice. The roadway into the reserve was awful, very muddy and deeply rutted. My guess is the damage to the guide’s car was at least worth what we paid him.

After visiting various national parks in the US,Canada,Europe,and Africa, we were very disappointed by the butterfly reserve. The place was filthy-trash everywhere. And for the one-two k walk we took we were besieged by people selling postcards, souvenirs, soft drinks,renting horses,etc. The lady at the ticket booth was very rude to our guide and wasn’t very pleasant with us either.

The reserve is worth at least one visit,but Mexico needs to pay a little more attention to caring for their national parks,and to make the visit a more pleasant experience. Mexico needs the tourism money,especially now.

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