Most of the time when we're visiting places in Mexico, I'm reading in our Lonely Planet tourbook. This visitor guide is designed for eco-conscious and budget-conscious active-ish travelers. Most of their hotels are reasonably priced, many of their recommended restaurants are very local-friendly. Since we speak Spanish, this has worked out for us, bc we can go to places most "gringos" can't. Also, this book gives a lot of history about the archeological places we've visited so that we don't have to pay a tour guide to tell us in Spanish about the place.
We assumed that Veracruz would be very tropical, and the very green trees made it seem like we were in a tropical place. Thankfully, though, the temperature wasn't too high when we went. (about 80F)
The Mesoamericans (natives from central America with civilizations before the arrival of the Spanish) were the first to create a 365-day calendar. But they didn't have paper, so no amazing agendas or wall calendars with pictures of puppies. Instead, they used sculptures to remind the townspeople what day of the week/month/year it was. The "pyramid of the niches" is famous at El Tajin bc it has 365 little "niches" or little boxes - 1 for each day of the year. Likely the priests moved a little statue from one box to the next every day to help people figure out what day it was.
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that's a fun one.
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