Veracruz is state in Mexico that isn't visited very often.
While Veracruz does have a long coast line the beaches aren't like what you would see in Cancun or Puerta Vallarta.
The capital city Xalapa is high in the mountains surrounded by forests.
We're going to spend a couple days exploring nearby waterfalls and the city of Xalapa.
Good morning. We stayed the the night in Xalapa and we got an early start to our day.
We're in Texolo which is near the town of Xico and we're here to see two waterfalls.
So we're going to see La Monja which is the smaller one and then also the much larger one which is the waterfall of Texolo.
So we're getting a start it's a long walk down: a lot of stairs to see the large one.
If you don't want to do all the stairs then you can see the small one.
376 steps later we made it to the cascada Texolo.
It's the largest one we'll see today. It's a long walk down, but definitely worth it.
It's really beautiful and there's actually a canyon right next to it that was created by an earthquake in 1920.
Now we're going to see La Monja which is the smaller one. It's a really short walk from the top of the hill for the waterfall Texolo.
So we should be there pretty quickly.
This is the cascada La Monja or the nun.
It's actually bigger than we thought. They said it's the smallest one, but it's actually a pretty decent size.
There's not that many people here right now, so you're able to get up nice and close and see it for yourself.
So nothing has gone as planned.
Yesterday we got really sick and actually didn't leave the house or do anything.
So today we are in Altotonga and we're visiting Pancho Poza.
And it's super foggy and cloudy and pretty cold.
We came to swim, but we'll see if we actually do that.
It's free to park and you just walk in. There's a water fall and a place to swim.
So we'll check it out and see if we actually get in since it's kind of cold out.
This is the area you can swim at. We went up and walked to see the waterfall first.
And I felt the water it's actually kind of warm so I'm going to get in.
We're going to see how it goes. It's really beautiful and super clear here, so it's a perfect spot to swim.
Especially if it was a little bit warmer. There's a lot of cloudy days though they said about 100 days out of the year.
Especially from August to March you'll find a lot more kinda cloudy gloomy days.
So it's definitely I wouldn't call it warm, but it's not cold either.
It's actually kind of nice. When I first got in I was like oh shoot this was a bad idea.
But it's pretty warm...ish
So it turned out that it actually worked out okay. Even though it's really cloudy the water was pretty warm and it was a nice walk.
It's about 15 minutes there 15 minutes back probably a little bit longer there because it's uphill and it's a 0.7 mile walk as well.
Even though we missed a day yesterday and didn't get to take you guys to another waterfall,
we had a great time. We hope you guys enjoyed seeing a little bit of Xalapa and the surrounding areas.
We will be back with more videos.