What to do and see in Veracruz, Veracruz: The Best Things to do Good for a Rainy Day

July 8, 2021 Nobuko Falco

Discover the best top things to do in Veracruz, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast including Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa, Huitzilapan Expediciones Jalcomulco, Museo Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Acuario de Veracruz, El Museo Tuxteco, El Agora, Museo Naval Mexico, Museo del Cafe, Puros Santa Clara, Iron Palace.
Restaurants in Veracruz

1. Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa

Av. Xalapa S/N Unidad Magisterial, Xalapa 91017 Mexico +52 228 815 0920 http://www.uv.mx/MAX
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5.0 based on 564 reviews

Museo de Antropologia de Xalapa

This top-notch anthropology museum displays the diversity of Mexican cultures.

Reviewed By Gudnar - Mexico City, Mexico

If you love museums and ancient Mexican culture, this is a must visit place to you. This is a beautiful place full of hundred of diverse pieces, very well kept and protected. The most famous pieces are the giant heads found in Veracruz state. Museum is very well designed, with good illumination and enough space to walk and enjoy the collection. It is also a very quiet place with very few visitors. Despite of you can download a museum guide app for free for your mobile phone, I strongly suggest you to pay for guide service. Those guys know in deep each piece and connections among them. You can enjoy this service for a very affordable price. My 11 years son enjoyed Nestor explanations and he had the chance to ask him many questions. Guide services are available in Spanish, English and French. If your are carrying your professional camera, you have to pay an admission fee to use it. Thanks Nestor for your marvelous explanations and for allow us traveling in the past with those cultures!

2. Huitzilapan Expediciones Jalcomulco

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5.0 based on 32 reviews

Huitzilapan Expediciones Jalcomulco

We are HUITZILAPAN EXPEDICIONES, a Company formed up by a team of professional local guides, all of them with more than 15 years of experience running rivers in Veracruz and all across the Country, and even other rivers around the globe. We decided to create this Company to offer life experiences where nature, fun, adrenaline and safety come together through Whitewater Rafting and other outdoor adventure activities like canyoning, rappel and zip lines. The Huitzilapan River “the hummingbirds’ river” in Nahuatl, which runs through Jalcomulco, Veracruz, is the main destination for Whitewater Rafting in Mexico due to its quality rapids that can be run all year long. In addition, you’ll find yourself immersed in exuberant vegetation, Jalcomulco is a natural spectacle just for you.

3. Museo Francisco Gabilondo Soler

Calle sur 29 670, Orizaba 94300 Mexico
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5.0 based on 66 reviews

Museo Francisco Gabilondo Soler

Reviewed By kiki10

You find cri cri songs written and well represented, you can also listen to the song while you watch the mache paper representation.

4. Acuario de Veracruz

Boulevard Manuel Avila Camacho s/n, Veracruz 91900 Mexico +52 229 931 1020 [email protected] http://www.acuariodeveracruz.com/
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4.5 based on 2,003 reviews

Acuario de Veracruz

This impressive new aquarium is home to over 3,000 species of both local and international marine life.

Reviewed By guillermob491 - Mexico City, Mexico

Perfectly organized, air conditioned , no busy lines, free for senior citizens, with mexican i.d., entrance fee only 80 pesos which is a steal, considering whay you pay for the same in Canada and USA. You can arrive right at the entrance by bus which is only 9 Pesos and come one after another, either direction.Dowtown or Boca del Rio.

5. El Museo Tuxteco

Santiago Tuxtla Mexico
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4.5 based on 12 reviews

El Museo Tuxteco

This museum has a collection of Olmec artifacts among other things, including the remains of a real Olmec Indian skull.

Reviewed By thomassQ6285WA

In Santiago Tuxtla, right on the pleasant town square , this museum has an remarkable collection of antique olmec pieces including possibly the nicest of all known olmec stone heads . Beyond that, the museum has an eclectic set of pieces from other regions of Mexico reaching all the way to the north with nice pottery from the Casas Grandes region; this indicates taht one or more private collections must have been donated to this museum. Together with eh huge Olmec head on the town square, the nice setting and surrounding landscape, this makes for a very worth while detour on the way to or from the south and southeast!

6. El Agora

Parque Juarez, Xalapa Mexico
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4.5 based on 50 reviews

El Agora

7. Museo Naval Mexico

Calle Mariano Arista No 418, Veracruz 91700 Mexico +52 229 931 4078 [email protected] http://www.semar.gob.mx/museonavalmexico/index.htm
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4.5 based on 498 reviews

Museo Naval Mexico

This museum documents the history of Mexico's navy.

Reviewed By Kikiferret

Great naval museum, with a lot of rooms (all air conditioned) full with historic things of the Veracruz harbor and the Mexican Navy, several scale models of ships, planes, helicopters (one real), guns, uniforms, and all the naval parafernalia and traditions within a historic building. A must if you visit the city.

8. Museo del Cafe

Carretera Coatepec - Las Trancas Km 4, Coatepec 91000 Mexico +52 228 816 5390 [email protected] http://elcafe-talapan.com/index.php/page/museo
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4.5 based on 132 reviews

Museo del Cafe

The Coffee Museum has become the major tourist attraction in our region, with thousands of visitors per year. This inspires us to share our taste for the art of drinking coffee. The coffee Museum's goal is to let visitors know about the origins of quality coffee and the different process steps it goes through before we can enjoy a good cup of joe. Our guides, who specialize in the history and culture of coffee, will take you on a fascinating tour where you will see our plantations as well as an interesting exhibition of objects from the 19th and 20th centuries.

9. Puros Santa Clara

Blvd 5 de Febrero S/N, San Andres Tuxtla 95710 Mexico +52 294 947 9906 [email protected] http://www.santaclarapuros.com/
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4.5 based on 10 reviews

Puros Santa Clara

10. Iron Palace

Av. Francisco I. Madero Esquina Poniente 2, Orizaba 94300 Mexico +52 272 728 9136 http://www.orizaba.travel/iron-palace
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4.5 based on 310 reviews

Iron Palace

A world’s architecture jewel brought from Brussels, Belgium; it is a structure that can be totally dismantled. Enjoy its free museums: Beer Museum, Soccer Museum, Roots of Orizaba, Interactive Museum and Planetarium, and also its main square

Reviewed By AndresGosan - Mexico City, Mexico

This building is known for being made by Gustave Eiffel himself. It was brought from Belgium and if you take a look to the joints and the steel really look like created in another time. There are various rooms with different museums inside; and the precautions for COVID are great!

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