| Hotels and other Accommodations Catemaco hammock spaces, luxury inns and trailer camps accommodate any budget and any length of stay. |
| Restaurants Had any good fresh water snails lately? Catemaco´s many restaurants and the Tuxtlas Gulf beach palapas will satisfy your taste for seafood in myriad ways. |
| Places to Visit Breath-taking water falls, hidden lagoons and solitary beaches will occupy the days of your visit. More butterflies live here than in the rest of North America. |
| Activities Lazily drifting on placid rivers, rappelling cliff sides, running 50 kilometers around Laguna Catemaco, or mellowing with a Margarita on the shore will slough your days away. |
| Tourism |
| It takes 365 days a year to get to know Catemaco & Los Tuxtlas |
| To find out what to do in Catemaco "cuando calienta el sol" click here please. |
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| Overview Tourism facilities are primarily located in the cities of Catemaco, San Andrés Tuxtla and Santiago Tuxtla. The coastal and highland areas are still in the touristic stone age. Getting here Highway 180 crosses Los Tuxtlas, running from the Texas border to Cancun. Drive times from Veracruz city are 3-4 hours, Mexico City 7-9 hours. The closest airports are Veracruz and Minatitlan. About 8 daily first class buses arrive daily from Veracruz City. Second class buses run 24 hours a day. Overnight buses are available from Mexico City. Getting Around There is no rental car service in Los Tuxtlas. Bike and seasonal motorbike rental is available in Catemaco. All cities abound with private taxis with inexpensive rates starting at 14 pesos. Intercity buses connect the 3 major cities, about 6 pesos from Catemaco to San Andres. Communal taxis seating up to 6 in small Nissans connect major towns. Piratas (4 door Nissan pickups with rain roofs and seating up to 15) connect to most coastal and rural places. Where to stay In Catemaco most of the year, the 2 better hotels charge more than 1200 pesos double, and most hotels on or near the Malecon ask for 500 - 800 pesos. Relatively inexpensive hotels near the center ask upward of 179 pesos. On the coast, at present only the Montepio area has a semblance of hotels starting at 250 pesos. In the hills are various communal ecotourism enterprises that are geared towards groups. Where to eat Most restaurants serve typical Mexican fare, with an emphasis on seafood in Catemaco. Breakfasts start at around 25 pesos and fish or meat dinners start around 60 pesos. Most restaurant prices are uniform, except for inexpensive eateries around the central market. The few restaurants on the coast feature fresh fish dishes that can get expensive. During high season dozens of palapas serve more inexpensive dishes. What to see If you like nature there are literally hundreds of sites around Los Tuxtlas worthwhile visiting, starting with the Eyipantla waterfall. As for buildings, the Catemaco Basilica and the Santiago Tuxtla museum rank high. What to do Most visitors take a boat ride to see monkeys on the islands of the Catemaco lake. Nanciyaga, the "ecotouristic" mini theme park with crocodiles, shamans and mud baths is the area's best known attraction. If you like, you can get a so called "limpia" from dozens of brujos around Catemaco (around 200 pesos). When to come Anytime is a good idea. Hottest but dry months are mid April to mid June, rainiest months are August, September and October, and nastiest wet and cool months are December and January. When not to come The weekend of Semana Santa (Easter). All of Los Tuxtlas turns into a madhouse. |
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