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Re: Mexico, east coast or west? Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:10:15 EST

Before you visit any of the many ruin sin Mexico, I really recommend a
trip to the Templo Mayor and the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Tlaxcala, to the southeast of Mexico City, is a wonderful little town
to visit. On weekends, many people come here from Mexico City and during
the week it is very quiet. Near Tlaxcala are the Cacaxtla ruins with
coloured frescos.

Puebla, a colonial city, and nearby Cholula with its giant pyramid with
the tunnels inside, are also interesting and fascinating for historical
reasons.

The route to Veracruz is historically important and also scenic. Once we
travelled the route that Cortez took from the coast to Tenochtitlan
(Mexico City), reading the journal all the way that one of his
companions wrote at the time.

The beaches on the east coast are not as beautiful, but there are good
beaches north (towards Papantla and Tajin) and south of Veracruz.
Veracruz itself is very distinctive in food, sites and culture.

Get yourself some good books about Mexican history and a good travel
book (Moon, Lonely Planet, Green Michelin guide to Mexico, etc.), a map,
and do some reading. Then ,mark on the map the places that sound
interesting and plan a route around that. The route to Veracruze is
less touristed and takes you through some fascinating areas of Mexico.

Mexico is a marvelous country to travel in.


Kenny-Z wrote:
> "Bob F." wrote in message
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>>"Kenny-Z" wrote in message
>>news:6cIPb.913$sE5.78920@news.uswest.net...
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>>>Hi group,
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>>>I hope to be visiting Mexico City in March and don't know when
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> would
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>>>be the best time to visit...
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>>>Other than that, we will certainly want to see at least some
>>>coastline, but I don't know much about Mexico. I'm not looking for
>>>Cancun or McDonalds or anything, but I want to see some places
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> that
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>>>are enchanting, beautiful, inspiring, 'cultural', historic, etc.,
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> both
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>>>in land and coastal.
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>>>thanks for any tips,
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>>>kz
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>>There is plenty to see and do in Mexico City, including all of the
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> things
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>>that you specified above,
>>"enchanting, beautiful, inspiring, 'cultural', historic, etc.". I
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> read once
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>>that there are over 300 museums in Mexico City alone. Are you just
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> planning
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>>to land and then escape to the country?
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> Yes and no. Mexico city sounds like both an entry point and
> destination. Also, I may possibly be able to make contacts in the area
> (Tlaxcala) through an uncle, maybe... I know I would like to see some
> of the ancient ruins in/near Mexico City, as well as some of the
> myriad other good things (museums, etc...). But I'm guessing it would
> be shame to take a trip like this and not see any of the coastal
> areas. But which one and where? The east coast is closer is about all
> I know.
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> thanks and regards,
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> kz
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