Places to Visit in Mexico
Located in Mexico City lies at 7,461 feet above sea level in the Valley of Mexico, on Lake Xochimilco. The local agriculturalists constructed branch and reed rafts on the lake, covered them with mud from the bottom of the lake, and cultivated fruits, vegetables, and flowers, which they shipped to Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) via canal.
Xochimilco is a popular weekend outing for thousands of Mexicans and tourists, who visit the area in colourful flat boats. It is still an important market-gardening and flower-producing centre for the city.
Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas, considered as the first advanced civilization on the North American continent, with a population estimated at 125,000 or more,[3][4] making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch.
The National Palace is the seat of the federal executive in Mexico. Since 2018 it has also served as the official residence for the President of Mexico. It is located on Mexico City's main square, the Plaza de la Constitución (El Zócalo).
This site has been a palace for the ruling class of Mexico since the Aztec Empire, and much of the current palace's building materials are from the original one that belonged to the 16th-century leader Moctezuma II.
Located in Central Mexico, near the city of Queretaro, Tequisquiapan is known for its mineral spas and Spanish colonial buildings. This mine is an excellent location to explore rockhounding in Mexico.
You will be able to collect your own opal stones or purchase polished opals at the workshop at an excellent price. While many of the miners work in the sun, making it easier to spot the shine of the opals, the tour takes you into small caves to hunt, keeping you out of the heat of the day.
The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the Mexican state of Querétaro.
The area is valued for its very wide diversity of plant and animal life, which is due to the various microenvironments created by the ruggedness of the terrain and wide variation in rainfall.
This surreal, mint-green colored lagoon is fed by six thermal springs with temperatures ranging between an appealing 80.6°F and 86°F.
Its crystal-clear waters mean snorkelers and divers can view beds of water lilies, an ancient petrified forest and several fish species.
The Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas was created by Edward Frank Willis James, an eccentric British poet, artist and patron of the surrealist movement. James created a fusion between the organic and the artificial, between the jungle and the concrete, which merges the two worlds into one.