Apizaco is located 132 km from Mexico city via federal highways 150 and 119 in the state of Tlaxcala. The city gets its name from the Nahuatl language that means “thin water place”. The census of 2005 reported a population of 49,459 in the city of Apizaco. The city is the second largest in the sate in population.

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Just 40 km outside Mexico City, along the Queretaro highway, stands Tepotzotlan, a town that despite its small size is world famous and a source of pride to the inhabitants of the state of Mexico. Tepotzotlan is a pretty little town dating from the colonial period. It was once a center for spiritual instruction in New Spain. Today its convent houses a highly interesting museum of religious art, while the well-restored church is one of the jewels of Mexican Baroque Architecture.

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Tolatongo is a canyon located 17 km. from Ixmiquilpan on the road 27 in the Mezquital valley, in the state of Hidalgo Mexico. It is about and hour and a half north east of the city of Pachuca and 198 km. or 3 to 4 hours north east of Mexico city.

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La Malinche is within the state of Tlaxcala, east of Mexico city and north of Puebla, 44 km from its capital Tlaxcala. It is frequently used as a training/acclimatization climb by mountaineers whose main goal is to climb one or more of the high volcanoes. On sunny weekends Mexican families try to get up there with their children and grandparents. No especial equipment is required, there are no dangerous parts and the trail is very easy to follow so no guide is needed.

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Calixtlahuaca is located in the Toluca valley of highland centlal Mexico, Calixtlahuaca is a particularly important site for studing Postclassic-Period Mesoamerican urbanism. It is one of the very few Aztec period urban sites where both monumental architecture and extensive residential districts are preserved today. Although the site’s public architecture and stone sculpture are closely related to sites in the aztec urban tradition, its urban lay out is radically different from those sites.

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Nuevo vallarta is a beautiful tourist destination, waiting to give you the most relaxing experience you have ever had. This new resort town has emerge as a sister resort to Puerto Vallarta, keeping its very personal charm. Ultramodern hotels, most featuring an all-inclusive plan, frame almost 4 miles of fine sand beaches, the best in Vallarta, and ideal for water sports and leisure, as they offer a hidden yet close paradise to stay and relax.

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West of Monterrey is the famed Huasteca Canyon (cañon de la huasteca), with 300 meter high cliffs and a park in the middle. There are unlimited opportunities for rock climbing, but you have to bring your own equipment. The Huasteca Canyon has many well-maintained trails and its spectacular peaks attract climbing enthusiasts from all over the world. It is the favorite place for weekends climbers.

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Real del Monte (officially Mineral del Monte) is a small town and municipality in the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico, lying at an altitude of 2,700 meters (8,800 ft). The municipality was once the richest in the state when gold and silver were discovered before the spanish conquest. The spanish began mining in the late 1500s. The mines were later abandoned but reopened in the late 1730s.

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Papantla is a city in the northern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz. It was named a “Pueblo Magico” in 2006. This town is well known for its colorful voladores, its markets and museums, and the magnificent ancient Totonac city of El Tajin.

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Xcalak is the most southern town in the state of Quintana Roo. This village is located on the southern end of La Costa Maya, along a stretch of idyllic coast that runs from Mahahual to Xcalak. It provides you with a pretty good idea of what Cancun was 40 years ago. This is a great place for those who are seeking the remote, less refined areas of the Caribbean Coast, with all its natural beauty above and below the waterline.

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