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Front Gate, Hotel Chachalacas
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First room, with mini-pool in front
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Luxuriant flora of Veracruz
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Valentin at the helm
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Beach at CHACHALACAS

by alza

The beach was across a small mud road outside my hotel. When I walked out of the hotel grounds & into the village, it was a huge shock. The place was very desolate, the street dirty & lined on the beach side with uninviting open-air palapa restaurants. Palapas are open structures with palm-thatched roofs. All the heavy equipment needed to make things work in the kitchen is spread out all over the place, broken & summarily fixed with pieces of cardboard or sticks of wood. Gas & water tanks, old stoves, plastic pails, fridges that surely can no longer be used, ramshackle tables with dusty plastic tablecloths, all adorned with the ubiquitous plastic bowls of green & red salsa waiting since god knows when for the first customers to arrive. The whole street is topped by a mess of electrical cords, tangled onto worm-eaten poles & flying used plastic bags blown up there by the wind.I walked...

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CHACHALACAS

by alza

This week I went to the Central Coast area, to a small village by the Gulf of Mexico called Chachalacas. I needed a break from all the hassle that settling into a new city and a new country brings. Mostly, I found the beaches in Veracruz very unappealing and read in the newspapers that the water in and around the Port is contaminated. That information was countered the next day by a short news bulletin from the State, which said that the beaches have been contaminated in the past but that they were safe for the moment. Still, that didn't make them appealing overnight and I felt like going for a swim.A travel agency gave me a list of 3-star hotels and one Special Category hotel in Chachalacas and I phoned from Veracruz to check them out. The Special Category was USD110 a night, including an American Plan breakfast (at that price, I would think so!) The 3-star hotel I chose is the...

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LA ANTIGUA, horses and conquistadores

by alza

A monument on the Plaza of LA ANTIGUA reads:"Here we wish to list for historic memory all the cavalrymen and horses that passed through:Captain Cortés, a chestnut-coloured horse that later died in the Fortress of San Juan de Ulua in Veracruz.Hernan López de Ávila, a chestnut mare, very playful and of good stock, which Pedro de Alvarado bought half of from him or took by force.Alonso Hernández Portocarrero, a grey mare of good stock, which Cortés bought from him to rope in the gold.Cristobal de Olió, a very good dark chestnut horse.Juan de Escalante, a small light chestnut horse.Francisco de Montejo, a toasted chestnut horse which he shared with Alonso de Ávila.Juan Velasquez de Léon, a very strong grey mare, a fighter of good stock, called La Rabona (Bobtail).Francisco de Morla, a dark chestnut horse, very good and a great runner.Morón, a peach-coloured plow horse, quite a fighter.Pedro...

Internet Cafes

by Vikingvicki

Even in San Andres Tuxla there was an abundance of internet cafes. My favorite & also best value place was run by 2 young guys.8 pesos an hourOpen from about 9.00amAddress:AC Rason, just after I Allende ( coming from the zocalo). Up a flight of stairs

A tropical place...

by darthmilmo

I then hopped on a bus to the state of Veracruz. The first thing I noticed entering the state of Veracruz was the change in scenery! It changed from a normal, almost arid like environment to a tropical one.