Puebla, Mexico
- The City of Puebla,
well known as "Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity",it's
surrounded on its historical center area, by many buildings with
lots of testimonies of the past, and one of the constructions
that conforms this cultural city is justly a beautiful 100 years
old French style building, which includes all the comfort that
business men and tourists requires, also our guests will be able
to experience the combination among modern services and the
history of this beautiful building.
Hoteles
Cinco de Mayo is often confused as Mexico's
Independence Day. Cinco de Mayo commemorates an army victory Batalla de Puebla
Puebla, deeply religious and
proud of her history, has managed to preserve
the treasures created by her architects,
artists and craftsmen. Today, the Historic
Center is a World Heritage Site where you can
visit churches and convents, admire colonial
doorways and facades, wander through plazas
and patios or visit museums displaying
everything from pans to railroad cars
including paintings, archaeological objects,
and of course, the books in the valuable
Palafox Library collection.
The city also has shops
specializing in Talavera pottery and
traditional confectionery, and antiques in the
Los Sapos district as well as a wide range of
restaurants where you can sample the wonderful
local cuisine. Other nearby places worth
visiting include the Laguna de San Baltasar,
an environmental project center, the
archaeological zone of Cholula and a zoo where
the animals roam freely.
Cuetzalan
Mexico - Cuetzalan is a picturesque town
located 183
km
from the
city of Puebla
Mexico.
Cuetzalan is a small, picturesque market town,
in the north of the Mexican state of Puebla.
The town is situated on a limestone hillside,
beneath which lie many kilometres of cave
passage. Collectively described as the
Cuetzalan system, it was described in the late
1970's as "One of the finest and most going
cave systems in the world".
The area was
first visited in the mid 1970's, when
American, British and later Belgian cavers
began exploration of the many stream sinks
around the town. Between 1976 and 1980, over
35km of cave passage had been explored and
surveyed. However, exploration in the area
was abandoned, probably due to the
fragmentation of survey data between the
various groups. It was not until 1988 that
interest in the area was rekindled when a
small team from the British Northern Cave Club
and Mexican cavers visited
the area. The potential of the region was
confirmed and over the following years
numerous British expeditions have visited the
area. The original discoveries of the 1970's
have been resurveyed and the original system
has been extended considerably. To date over
100km of cave passage has been explored and
surveyed and each expedition returns with more
leads for future exploration. Fotos
provided by Ramon Felipe Tecolt Gonzalez from
Puebla, Mexico
Although many
of the major cave entrances are close to well worn tracks, other entrances are to be found
in the middle of maize fields and coffee
plantations and care needs to be taken when
crossing these in order not to damage crops
and upset the locals. Care also needs to be
exercised used when using machetes as what may
appear to be general vegetation could in fact
be a local resource. In general, no problems
with access have been experienced when
visiting the cave entrances, although in
certain areas (such as near the village of Tepetzala and the region around Cueva
D'Alpazat) access can at times be a sensitive
issue. The best approach when prospecting is
to mention that you are searching for 'cuevas',
and you will often find yourself on a guided
tour of every hole in the locality, usually
accompanied by hordes of children or field
workers.
