Viva Catemaco

Apparently a recent visitor to Catemaco took happy pills.

Laguna Catemaco: Mexico’s Best Kept East Coast Secret

When it gets hot in Catemaco

Germans invading Catemaco

For the last few weeks my internet visitor espionage system has shown a disproportionate number of visitors from Germany. I found no underlying link to explain the surge and I presume a charter tour operator is sponsoring a trip to Catemaco, Veracruz.

I hope the operator knows he needs a seaplane to land in the Catemaco Laguna, and maybe a gracious Deutsche will bring me a lederhosen to suffer the slips and slides of the volcanoes of Los Tuxtlas.

Nichtsdestoweniger, Herzlich Willkommen!

Rumbo a Catemaco

"Drive through Catemaco, but don´t slow down".

Inside Mexico Magazine reporters wasted 10 hours driving to Catemaco, apparently never left their hotel, and now relieve their frustrations with an article.

Source: Inside Mexico, page 15

Photos, Slideshows and Videos of Catemaco and Los Tuxtlas

Photo Pages - A fast look at what is the best in Catemaco.
Usually a dozen photos with a short description.

Slideshows - A more in depth view of the wonders of Los Tuxtlas.

Videos - Links to our and many other good videos of Catemaco and Los Tuxtlas

These links will take you to http://www.catemaco.info/ pages.

Los Tuxtlas - The last jungle

This is an excellent slideshow with descriptions in English and Spanish made in Germany.
View it here: slideshare.net

Catemaco Videos

Within the last 6 weeks more than 30 Catemaco videos have been published to YouTube.

Watch: Movies of Catemaco

5 minutes in Catemaco

Catemaco Trees & Bushes

published by the Field Museum of Chicago, IL - 6.9mb pdf file

Mystic Catemaco

Today was one of the annual 10 to 15 magnificent photographic days in beautiful downtown Catemaco.

Usually the laguna and surrounding hills are clothed in what visitors call mysticism, and local photographers call anything else when on their best behavior.

A friend, foolishly living on the side of one of the latent volcanoes, called me this morning to advise me he could actually see clearly to the other side of the laguna.
Previously we had made arrangements to hire a 75 miles away pilot o fly us over the area, but unfortunately his phone had the usual TELMEX message of "afuera de servicio (out of service)".
So I trucked to some of the places which the Veracruz government should declare state treasured views and loaded my digital camera, which promptly went CLONCK in multiple languages.

To see more of Catemaco, visit http://www.catemaco.info/: and to fly over it, keep digging! There really is a slideshow of a flight over the Santa Marta's.

Biosphere Reserve of Los Tuxtlas

39 pages of pretty pictures, statistics and charts, stored on a Veracruz government server which takes long minutes to load.

I think they do that because the Veracruz government thinks there is a superfast Telmex broadband connection in every casita in the state. That is right after putting "two chickens in every pot" as US president Herbert Hoover said in 1928, and proceded to do.

Take the time though, please. It is an excellent presentation.

Link