After arriving in Veracruz and meeting up with Kurt and his friend Patti (who very kindly brought me a new battery for my camera, which actually survived the flight off the carnival ride and now works) we headed a few miles south to the town of Boca del Rió, which like Veracruz is right on the Gulf shore. Boca del Río was having their festival of their patron saint, Santa Ana.
As part of the festivities, on Friday, they unveiled the world’s largest fish filet filled with seafood. I’m not sure exactly how long it was, but the table extended for what seemed like forever and they cooked the filet by walking down the table with blow torch-like contraption.
After the filet viewing, we headed to the beach for the rest of the afternoon.
Saturday we headed about an hour and a half north of the city of Veracruz to the ruins of Quiahuiztlan, about 3 km from the coast. The ruins are set at the base of a large rock ( monolith I think), that kinda resembles the monolith in Bernal, Que. From the ruins there are great views down to the beach and the cliffs at playa Villa Rica.
We found some cows and interesting bugs on the road up to the ruins.
From the ruins we walked down the road to the tiny town of Villa Rica for some quick seafood and then walked out to the cliffs that are on a peninsula.
We spent Sunday in the city of Veracruz and in the fort of San Juan de Ulúa before I headed back to Puebla and another traffic jam en route (no hotdogs this time though, just bridge construction).
But upon finally arriving CAPU (the bus station in Puebla), this was the view of the volcano Popo from the terminal window.
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