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| How incredible it was to ride a horse up the mountain! |
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| Francisco, who fights each day to save the forest ,standing between myself and our guide Marcos |
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| Click on the picture and find the butterfly. |
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| Think you can count them all? |
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| Miss Michele ,Squeaky and I |
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| Squeaky counting the millions of Monarchs! |
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| The restaurant where we ate at the base of the mountain. |
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| Dona Lola, Francisco's wife ,prepares our meal. |
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| Mr. S. enjoys his meal and a special fruit drink called Boing.You would love it! |
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| This man wrote a song about his love for the butterflies and sang it to us as we ate lunch |
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Next stop.....Altenare.
This is a very special place in the monarch wintering areas where people are trained in ways to build homes
from adobe brick instead of wood from trees.
They also do many, many,many other things including planting new trees in the forest .
About Altenare
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| An Altenare biologist receives your bake sale money from Squeaky and I. |
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| A 16 year old Altenare instructor feeds the chickens. |
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| Building with adobe bricks |
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| Young trees waiting to be planted. |
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