Mexico Travels
Kurt C. Friehauf
Mexico is a great place to
get started traveling in a non-English speaking country. For
Americans, it's close, very beautiful, very friendly, and
inexpensive. I've only been to Mexico three times, but
every time
is completely different and every time was great! The Yucatan Penninsula
in the south is a
jungle with relaxed beaches and incredible archaeological sites.
Central Mexico
near Zacatecas is full of colonial history. The Sonoran desert
and the Central Plateau are hot, dry, and beautiful (and has some
excellent mineral deposit geology!). The
Sierra Madre Occidental
is rugged and remote.
Yucatan Penninsula
- rain forest land of Mayans and groundwater
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We also visited the village of
Progresso which is near the center of a burried meteorite impact crater
called Chicxulub. The Chicxulub Crater
is thought by many geologists to be the footprint of the asteroid that
killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If you're
unfamiliar with this theory, I recommend T-Rex and the Crater of Doom (very
easy reading and written by Walter Alvarez - the
physicist/geologist who first proposed the theory).
North-Central Mexico - hot desert with
warm-hearted people and great mines
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Sierra Madre Occidental - looking at treasure in the deep
country
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Links
to other people's photos of Mexico
many places, all well
shot - http://www.mexperience.com/inmexico/photos/photogallery_home.htm
really great eye for people -
http://www.hanshendriksen.net/mexicogallery.htm
includes other places, too -
http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/NorthAmerica/Mexico/
another person who's
been all over - http://nicolasremy.free.fr/mexico/index.en.html
http://www.peterlanger.com/Countries/Latinamerica/Mexico/
http://www.pbase.com/zuiko40/mexico
Zacatecas - high resolution all on page -
http://www.downtheroad.org/Photo/4CenMex/ZacatecasPHOTO.htm
Maps
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/idlarge.htm
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/cnlarge.htm
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/mx.htm
