Tepoztlán, Mexico's New Age Capital

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In the dusty hills of Morelos about an hour outsideMexico City, it has cobblestone streets, colonial-era churches, even a modest set of ancient ruins. The Mexican tourism folks have Tepoztlán on their list of eighty-something “Pueblos Mágicos” (“Magical Towns”), but the difference is that not only do the locals here take that quite literally, but they've transformed it into a cottage industry. According to myth the birthplace of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl, in recent years Tepoztlán has become not just a weekend getaway for Mexico City slickers, but also sort of like Sedona without the vortices – Mexico's woo-woo mecca par excellence – and one largely known to Mexicans but not yet discovered by international tourists on a large scale... keep reading