El Sotano de Golondrinas: Cave of Swallows

San Luis Potosi, Mexico

The Sótano de las Golondrinas, or “Cave of Swallows” is one of the greatest attractions of the Huasteca area of the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico.  It is located near the town of Aquismón in an area rife with water and lush vegetation. This giant sinkhole, with a main shaft that plunges to a depth of 370 meters (1,220 feet)f from its highest rim and a gaping elliptical mouth measuring about

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Xilitla in the Huasteca Potosina

The town of Xilitla is poised on the slopes of a mountainside in the coffee-growing region in the eastern portion of the state of San Luis Potosi.

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Waterfalls of the Huasteca Potosina

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One of the great attractions of the Huasteca are its numerous and spectacular waterfalls, many of which are easily accessible to the regular visitor, and this past year we had the opportunity to take a tour of several of them at the tail end of the rainy season.

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San Luis Potosi State, Mexico

San Luis Potosi offers the bustle of it’s commercial capital of the same name and the remains colonial mining towns such as Real de Catorce in it’s high western desert, as well as a lush collection of semi-tropical forests punctuated by rivers and waterfalls with ample opportunities for outdoor and eco-activities on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre.

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Real de Catorce: Crags and Cactus

A former silver-mining community in the dry, craggy mountains of north-western San Luis Potosí in northern Mexico.

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Las Pozas, Xilitla

Site chosen by Englishman Edward James for the building of an astounding showcase of surrealistic structures in the lush jungles of this coffee-growing region of north-eastern Mexico.

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Taninul Resort

Taninul: “Place where the waters rise” — an unusual resort hotel run by the sugar-workers union offering access to a pool fed by a natural sulphur spring with spa facilities, tennis courts and tranquility Taninul, originally a sugar-producing hacienda, was taken over in 1986 by the Sugar Workers Union and opened as a hotel. This 700 acre reserve is located in the lushness of the tropical Huasteca Potosina . The Hotel itself is a sprawling stone structure of 130 rooms.

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