Some Of Veracruz Attractions

Enjoy the variety of tourist places in Veracruz, a tourist destination where you'll find fun. The city has several museums, a modern aquarium, a zoo and an ecological park, and if you have a longer period of time is highly recommended to visit the archaeological sites and villages near the port. Some attractions are
Museum of Science And Technology Xalapa
Dating from 1992, showing its great image with a harmonious blend of steel tubular structures, glass, quarry, mixed with great success in integrating the characteristic vegetation of Jalapa. In essence, this museum is educational and through its nine thematic rooms. Find where visitors learn to identify and interact with the phenomena of science, ecology, land, water and space. It has a huge IMAX screen house films and documentaries.
Visits: Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 to 17:00 hours. Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 hours.
Museum of Anthropology
It was reopened in 1986 and occupies a whole area of 60,000 m2, of which 12.000 are covered by the building. It is an elongated structure that includes 18 galleries, six yards and four side rooms, created a section to provide different environments for museum displays a total comprises about 30.000 pieces from private collections donated to the museum and archaeological finds. The pieces displayed are about 3,000 and include the most important aspects of the pre-Hispanic cultures that developed in Veracruz: Olmeca, Huasteca and Totonaca.
Visits: Monday to Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00 hours.

FORESTS
By the Cañadas "cloud forest"
The forest in the region of large mountains in the center of the state of Veracruz received many names, including "mountain, fog or deciduous forest or cloud forest mountain." In one of his remaining is Las Cañadas, private reserve of 306 ha, designed with the purpose of sharing a different way of living, producing and touring. Thus, for just over five years, the young couple Ricardo and Tania, backed by a score of workers from the area, gave an old ranching for the purpose of producing meat would become a ecological reserve, which has 60 reforested with native trees 50 mil-liquidámbares, oak, walnut and beech, ash, and the rest of the abandoned pasture vegetation left to grow.
Since then, major changes are observed between one and the next spring, thanks to the Heart of Las Cañadas, a Manchón of approximately 40 ha of cloud forest, which aided by an army of birds, bats, squirrels and wind, tirelessly spreading seeds of a multitude of herbs, shrubs and trees, giving new life to areas of recovery.

JUNGLE
Boca de Loma
Traveling on the Emerald Coast, north of the port of Veracruz, and a few minutes from the town of Palma Sola, arrive at the mouth of Loma ranch, where you begin the journey on horseback from the dunes that are on the seashore to through thick jungle and the coastal plain to tour the ranch mouth hidden, the Mesilla, orange, Santa Gertrudis, Centennial, El Sobrante and the Board. These farms cover an area of 1 000 ha, of which 500 were declared a reserve for its former owner, Rafael Hernandez Ochoa, a pioneer of ecology in the region and exgobernador of the entity.

Catemaco
In this unique population, the cradle of wizards, it is interesting to make a stroll through the famous Laguna de Catemaco, a large basin that is fed by runoff and springs of mineral water, bordered by a thick band of tropical vegetation. Inside there are two small islands inhabited by white herons and a colony of macaques. On the road around the lake is connected another which leads to the coast, the first village is located 14 km and Coyame Sontecomapan forward with a lake, at the height of the bar of the same name, is 16 km from Playa Sontecomapan Escondida.
Costa Esmeralda
Among Tecolutla and Nautla is a strip of beaches flooded greens and blues that impress the traveler; it extends its beauty and charm, more than 50 km, is the Emerald Coast, a meeting point between sea and land, which can send out Jalapa, Poza Rica and Veracruz. Along the Emerald Coast, you will find hotels to four star category with economic class, which offers its services to tourists, and including campgrounds and trailer-park.
Emerald Coast has abundant and excellent restaurants and places for watersports. The beaches that we recommend to visit are: La Guadeloupe, Ricardo Flores Magon, the joists, East Beach, Monte Gordo, Casitas and Maracaibo. Everywhere there is a constant pleasant sands with calm and gentle waves.