Sunset in the Jardin Botanico 'Helia Bravo Hollis' (close to Tehuacán)

Our campsite in the Jardin Botanico 'Helia Bravo Hollis'

Fat tree on top of Cerro Zapotitlan

Marion with a cactus like a huge ball

Another interesting cactus

Gaining salt opposite of our campsite Jardin Botanico 'Helia Bravo Hollis'

Mexican sanctuary on the street between Zapotitlan and Tehuacán

Pilgrims on the highway between Puebla and Veracruz

Marion on the way to the 4461 meter high Volcan La Malintzin (named La Malinche by the Spaniards) with Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl in the background (both above 5000 meters sea-level)

Smoking Popocatepetl which cannot climbed up for more than 20 years now

Summit of La Malintzin seen from 4103 meters high Cerro Tlachichihuatzi

On top of la Malintzi with Citlaltepetl (Star mountain or Pico de Orizaba) which is with 5610 meters sea-level the highest point of Mexico and between Colombia and Alaska

The former dress plant of Santa Cruz is now the recreation center Centro Vaccacional IMSS La Trinidad

The huge pool with warm water of La Trinidad

Fiesta to honor El Señor del Coro in Santa Cruz Tlaxcala

Fighting girls in front of the church

Ringer of Santa Cruz Tlaxcala in action

Evening of the fiesta

Sophisticated fireworks

El Señor del Coro disappears with a helicopter?

On the way to the volcano Cofre de Perote with La Malintzi on the top right

Icy Citlaltepetl which we summited in January 1996

The summit - Cofre means suitcase - peppered with transmitters

The access to the main summit

On top of the 4220 meters high suitcase

Laguna Tilapa seen from the descent of the southern summit

Citlaltepetl with Laguna Tilapa

Spiky flower

Cross on the western summit (4062 meters sea-level)

Plowing on foot of Cofre el Perote

Farm and chapel on the street between El Conejo and Perote

Gale in the Gulf of Mexico

Destroyed house directly on the beach of Costa Esmeralda

Our Austrian friend Otto who lives directly on the beach in Ricardo Flores Magón

The beach of Tecolutla

Police officer of Tecolutla

Preparing for the Fiesta de Coco which is the biggest coconut festival on earth

Cooking coconuts

The proud Coconut Queen

Adornment of the more than hundred meters long coconut stripe

Frog on our campsite in Tecolutla

El Tajin - The City of the Thunder God (300 - 1200 AD)

The Pyramid of the Niches - Each of the 365 niches correspond to the days of the year

Freso of El Tajin

Flowers in El Tajin

Iguana in El Tajin

Sandals of the inhabitants of El Tajin

The Totonac Voladores rite

Descending to the earth

We met our fried Karl from Bavaria in El Tajin

The warm river which comes out of the Grutas de Tolantongo

Cascades above the Grutas de Tolantongo

Alfred enters the tunnel

In the main cave of the Grutas de Tolantongo

People enjoying the warm water and ...

... losing their shoes

The little basins - Pozitas

Marion in the pleasant water

The canyon where the warm river leaves the valley of the Grutas de Tolantongo