Travel to the beautiful City of Veracruz

Dear Friend and Reader,


You know the Country of Mexico has really beautiful places, especially when you drive from Mexico City to Veracruz. It’s a beautiful sight first coming out of the Valley of Mexico City and on your right side you see the volcanoes Popocateptl and Itzlaciuatl. Then you drive over about three thousand meters and then you come down to the valley of Puebla. The city of Puebla where the Volkswagen Company is located is a nice beautiful city with an old history. The Zocalo (centre) of the city is a nice square place in Puebla where you can sit outside of the restaurants at this time of year and observe the by-passing visitors and dine or just drink your beer or Tequila whatever you like after a busy day of visiting the surroundings of the City of Puebla.

When you drive further you get a beautiful sight of the volcano Pico de Orizaba with his snow-covered top all year long. It’s really a fantastic sight when you drive through this part of Mexico. The autobahn is not always in the best shape especially during the rain season which started this year a little bit earlier than usual but you see that they are working all year around to keep this important vane in a more or less good shape. The traffic on this important road which connects the port of Veracruz with the Capital of Mexico and brings the new cars from Volkswagen to the port for export to the whole world and the imported cars from Volkswagen Brazil to Mexico is sometimes a little bit heavy. But it is a nice drive when you are not in a hurry and with time to absorb the beautiful sight along the road.

When driving with a rented car or an own car you need some cash because the highways or autobahn in the whole country of Mexico are very expensive. In my opinion they are the most expensive toll road in the whole world and I wonder sometimes how the Mexicans can afford those expensive roads. But in some way you see this expensive roads reflect in the prizes we have to pay for our food and so on because everything has to be transported from the ports and country side to the cities. But in some way it seems to me that nobody really cares because the higher the toll the more traffic you see.

When you drive down from the high mountain chain to the sea-level of the city of Cordoba you instantly feel the different climate the moisture and the heat of this part of the country. The whole year round it’s green and you feel the different air when coming from the Capital of Mexico where the air is real thin because of the altitude.

When you drive through this part of the country you feel like driving through a green garden with plants in abundance like nowhere else in the country. Veracruz connects Mexico with the old world of Europe and South America. Veracruz is worth for a visit when staying in Mexico, but not only the city itself is worth a visit also the whole state of Veracruz with his gentle and helpful people. In this part of Mexico, the people still have a different lifestyle and the people are more tranquil than in other parts of the country.
In this part of the country you feel like the time has turned back or is running slower than in other parts. The people still have more time, at least it looks like and you see at late hours of the night the people walking on the beach or sitting in the cafes and dinning outside like and it looks like every one is visiting and not working. But this lifestyle you only find in the tropic parts of the world where people go out at night and not that much during the day.

But anyhow when you plan in the near future a visit to Mexico not only think of beach and laying around doing nothing but also take advantage to travel for education in different cultures and getting to know people and how they live. You come sometimes more relaxed back from vacation when you learn and know different cultures and new people then when laying two weeks on a beach and burning your skin.

You know when learning about different cultures and getting to know new people is a far better way to understand the problems which face other countries and his population. In this globalization era without knowing and understanding the different cultures we cannot live together in a harmonious and peaceful way. Especially where we travel in a shorter time by plane then before and where we hear the news through media and internet from all over the world. We should not only be concerned with our own interest, needs and wishes while ignoring those of others.


Talk to you soon,

Anton Winkler