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After traveling for so many years already, I realized that every travel is a bit stressful. It is because I would want to make the most of our time and I want to explore the entire country that I’m visiting.
But hopefully on my next travel it would be different. I read that in the center of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, is the public square, called the jardin, or garden. The Mexicans and tourists alike spend time just sitting and watching each other, children playing, vendors selling fruit and hotdogs and other items. This is my kind of vacation now. Not always stressing ourselves to shop, walk, and rush. I like the laid back kind of vacation and I guess I can do it in San Miguel de Allende.
I also like the fact that there are lots of beautiful hotels with surrounding gardens. This would be fun for the kids. You see, living in the city makes you crave for fresh air, flowers, and plants. This would be perfect opportunity to have that.
San Miguel also have Public gardens, like Parque Benito Juarez, a sidewalk and roof top restaurants catching the breeze. It may sound a bit boring to some, but for me, it would be perfect!
If ever I will be in Mexico, I will make sure that I will drop by Cancun. This is a perfect vacation for me. Beach, shopping, nightlife, discovering culture and tradition all in one place. Not only that, Cancun has the most dreamy hotels I have ever known!
Looking at these photos makes me want to go there now. The photos above are taken from the hotel called the Avalon Reef Club Isla Mujeres. The name speaks for itself. A dreamy paradise where I would want to be right now. In this hotel I can forget about my worries. Time to relax. Time to unwind. Time for myself.
But since I love my family so much that I won’t want to leave them, I want to make sure that they will also like the place. I’m glad that they have amenities for kids. But knowing my kids, I’m sure being in the beach would be enough for them. Playing in the sand, swimming in the pool, or just staying in the villas would be heavenly for us.
A massage would make this all the more perfect. An hour or two a day of massage will do. It sounds perfect! I just hope that I could plan my vacation there as soon as possible.
* Details from www.uCancun.com.
I have read a lot of fun and hot nightlife in Mexico. People travel from around the globe to party in Mexican cities.
TripAdvisor.com wrote that from hedonistic party towns on the beach, to high-class and luxurious night spots in Mexico City, you will be more than entertained in Central Mexico and the Gulf Coast, once the sun goes down. Aside from the great bars and high energy, few places in the world can offer you as tasty of cocktails as can Mexico. The freshest of fruits and the best of tequilas can help you get your night started.
Sounds like a real party to me! You see, when I travel, I make it a point to explore all the sides of the country from shopping, tourist spots, local market, nightlife, and more. I’m glad that Mexico has so much to offer and nightlife is one of them. It just proves how much it is worth the time and money to go there.
Here are more details from TripAdvisor.com that makes me want to go there now!
Mexico City has abundance of bars, nightclubs, and artisitic performances. It is hard to know where to begin! There are several great neighborhoods with happening nightlife scenes. Try the Sante Fe and Polanco for young an dhip crowds and streets lined with cafe bars and clubs. Finding live music should be no problem here. For more nightclubs and comedy shows head to the Zona Rosa district. For the classic scene be sure to go to Plaza de Garibaldi downtown and check out a mariachi band.
If you want a nature reserve or an observatory or planetarium type of place, then you should visit El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve.
Acoording to TripAdvisor.com, it takes 3 hours from Morelia to reach this place and takes 1.5 hours walking uphill (and 1 hour downhill) to see the butterfly colonies. The route is Morelia-Maravatio-Aporo-Ocampo-El Rosario. Preferred months are December to February. The best time to go there at the entrance of the sanctuary is at 9:00 AM so you can see butterflies still in the trees and some are flying.
TripAdvisor.com also advised that if you are carrying kids below 3 yrs make sure you have enormous energy to carry them up and down hill. You can have some good mexican food if you like when you come back from the hill.
From Viva Travel Guides, it says that it is a steep climb from Angangueo into the mountains, up to the sanctuary gates. The view from the approach is hypnotic and the sights in the forest itself are surreal and intoxicating. Butterflies absorb it completely. They coat the fir trees in vast, fiery bunches, weighing down the branches in their numbers.
Butterflies at the El Rosario Reserve. Photo by Stephany Slaughter. Grabbed from VivaTravelGuides.com
I can’t wait to check out the place!
I haven’t seen a boulder in my whole life. So will definitely check out The Pena of Bernal in Central Mexico. The TripAdvisor.com wrote that the Pena de Bernal (Bernal Boulder) is the third-largest monolith in the world, after the Rock of Gibraltar and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. It is located beside the small colonial town of Villa de Bernal, in the center of the Mexican state of Queretaro. The monumental rock arises 248 meters over the town.
* Grabbed from TripAdvisor.com.
They also wrote that there is a path used by pilgrims and hikers to climb it. There is a little chapel about halfway up, after one hour and a half hike. You could continue the way up, but you will need special equipment.
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as on holidays, there is a free show of dancing water fountain synchronized to music. The show begins at 8pm and lasts about half an hour.
It sounds really interesting. The place even has small museum of typical masks. If you want to stay longer you can check in at several hotels in town. These include the Cabanas Bernal (Avenida Benito Juarez # 57), Meson San Jose (5 de mayo at Meson), Posada Real de Bernal (Independencia # 28) and Feregrino (Avenida Benito Juarez, without number).
Another museum that is a must see in Central Mexico and Gulf Coast is the El Museo Tuxteco. I came across this through TripAdvisor.com. Here are the details.
The museum is in the historic center of Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz. In front in the plaza there is another of the big Olmeca heads. The building was built in 1873 as a municipal palace. In 1916 it was burnt and stayed in ruins until 1938. Pieces from the important Tres Zapotes archaeological area are here. There are also some interesting murals of the conquest. They have signs in English. It is a well appointed small museums.
There is also an article at PVMirror.com featuring the famous museum. Here are some snippets from that article.
The Museo Regional Tuxteco, located in the municipality of Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, is the guardian of some of the best pieces of the “Mother Culture”, the Olmeca Culture; like the Cabeza de Nestepe (Nestepe Head), the smallest of these well-known Pre-Hispanic sculptures.Located in the Sotavento, a two-hour ride from the city of Veracruz, on the side of El Vigía mountain, the facility is inserted in the daily life of a town of mixed races still preserving the traditions of the culture that gave it its identity.
It holds in its interior over 3,600 years of history, from the Pre-Classic period all the way to Colonial Mexico, guarded also by the largest of the colossal Olmeca Heads.
The facility is a building that dates back to 1880, whose original function was the seat of Santiago Tuxtla’s City Hall. In 1916, at the very middle of the Mexican Revolution it was burnt down and abandoned.
Another part of Mexico that I want to visit is the Central Mexico. It consists of four states including Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, and Morelos. The Tehuacan Valley Valley is also part of Central Mexico. This area mainly consists of mountain ranges specifically the north which are the mountains of Sierra de Pachuca, to the east which are the Sierra Nevada range, to the south is the Sierra de Ajusco, and to the west are the Sierra de las Cruces range.
The nice thing about here is that it there is a rainy and dry seasons. The weather varies. From May to September, it rains while the rest of the months is just dry with occasional rain showers. The good thing about the rainy season is that it only rains in the afternoon and then stops in the evenings.
The winter weather is influenced by a tropical, dry, high
pressure while the summer climate is affected by the moist air of the northeast
trade winds.
There are so many places you can visit in Central Mexico like the following which hopefully I can post here too:
* El Museo Tuxteco
* The Pena of Bernal
* El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve (Santuario de Mariposas El Rosario)
* Nightlife
* Events & Festivals
<small>* Details from Mnsu.edu.</small>
* Snagged from Wikipedia.com.
I think that the next stop that I would want is visiting the Palacio de Bellas Artes or the Palace of Fine Arts. It is the premier opera house of Mexico City. I haven’t watched an opera in my entire life so this would be the perfect time. I have read from Wikipedia.com that the building is famous for both its extravagant Beaux Arts exterior in imported Italian Carrara white marble and its murals by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco.
For history of the palace, check this out.
Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads” mural was originally painted for the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Rivera had finished ⅔ of the mural when the Rockefellers objected to an image of Vladimir Lenin in the mural. When Rivera refused to remove Lenin, his commission was cancelled and the mural was destroyed. Rivera repainted it a smaller scale at the Palacio in 1934 and renamed it “Man, Controller of the Universe”.The theatre is used for classical music, opera and dance, notably the “Baile Folklórico”. A distinctive feature of the theatre is its stained glass curtain depicting a volcano and the valley of Mexico. It is the home of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, the Bellas Artes Orchestra, the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, the National Dance Company, and the Bellas Artes Opera.
* Details from Wikipedia.com.
Paseo de la Reforma as described in Wikipedia.com is a 12 kilometer long grand avenue in Mexico City, Mexico. The name commemorates the liberal reforms of 19th century president Benito Juárez.
I have always believed that every city has a grand avenue to check out for. If New York has the 42nd Avenue, Paris has Champs-Élysées, Mexico has the Paseo de la Reforma. Here are more details from Wikipedia.com.
This wide avenue runs in a straight line, cutting diagonally across the city. It was built on the orders of Emperor Maximilian I in the 1860s and was originally called “The Empress’s Avenue”, in honor of his consort Empress Carlota of Mexico. Modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it was designed to directly link Chapultepec Castle with the National Palace in the city center. It runs from Chapultepec Park, passes alongside the Torre Mayor (currently Latin America’s tallest building), and continues through the Zona Rosa and then to the Zócalo by Juárez Avenue and Francisco I. Madero Street.
What I like about this avenue is that according to MexicoCity.com.mx, it is one of Mexico City’s most outstanding avenues. Along its central extension stand fine examples of architecture, numerous banks and offices, ancient residential areas now transformed into fashionable venues, embassies, luxury hotels, exclusive art galleries and spectacular monuments.
I can’t wait to check out this grand avenue!