Every year, at the end of October, early November, the beautiful monarch butterfly gets to the State of Michoacán.
Looking for a warm place to mate, it flies from Canada and the United States to the welcoming Mexican lands. There it stays until March, when it goes back to North America.In Michoacán, there is a place that receives most of these butterflies, the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary ‘El Rosario’, reachable by a narrow ground road.When getting there, you will have two options: walking or riding a horse, because there is not any access for a vehicle to the same place where the butterflies are.The trip might be a bit difficult; however, the landscapes of pine groves and green grass are comforting, and the mountain air is fresh. It is recommendable to go along it calmly, and get ready to walk, because not all the way is adequate for horses. Anyway, the spectacle offers an unparalleled beauty. Shortly before getting to the sanctuary, you will start to notice brief orange flutters next to you, which will increase as long as you approach the sanctuary.When you get there, you will be astounded, watching thousands of butterflies as clusters, in tall trees, covering everything, flying from one place to another, leaving almost no room for the green of the trees, everything is intense orange. You will feel moved and thankful by the miracles Nature offers us.