The Grutas de García are actually much cooler than I expected – or than I expected them to be. But from the beginning.
A good friend of mine, who comes from Monterrey and was still living in Monterrey at the time I first visited, wanted to show me something of Monterrey I hadn’t seen yet and wanted to surprise me. As I’m a super curious person, but had never heard of the Grutas de García, I didn’t expect much, but just went for it – my luck, because I probably would have never gone there otherwise.
The Grutas de García are quite far out and when you’re there you take a gondola up the mountain to the entrance of the Grutas – the ride up is really cool and offers a great view of the surrounding mountains. Once we got to the top, we went inside and… I had all sorts of things in my head, but the Grutas de García are really big! Like really really big! It’s a whole system of caves connected by stairs so you can go up and into other rooms/caves and see everything. Really cool. And then there are stalacmites and stalactites ‘sculptures’ called organ or theatre, many ceiling constructions that are really impressive and in one place – my friend and I had to laugh to much – a stalacmite or stalactite (I always forget which ones grow up) is displayed as a Christmas tree. With lights and a star and everything. The reason why we had to laugh, however, was that the thing did rather look like a penis, than a Christmas tree. It really had something 😀
And if you’re following a guide – I mean why not you might actually be afraid of getting lost in a cave this size – you’ll eventually come to a spot on the wall that the guide claims looks like the Virgen Guadalupe (the most sacred figure in Mexico and legit represented everywhere in some way – no matter where you go). I fully respect Mexico’s for it’s almost obsession with the Virgen Guadalupe because Mexico is a very religious country. But that spot on the wall… It didn’t even remotely represent anything. And well… I really had to hold back my laughter. Especially when the rest of the group stood there and just nodded in agreement.

Now jokes aside, go or not? Yes, definitely. I mean, apart from the cool Grutas – and I obviously had really great company in form of my friend – I also found the Grutas de García really worth seeing, really big, very funny at times 😀 and the view up there of the surrounding mountains is really not to be dismissed either. Therefore absolutely recommendable 😊