Parks & Recreation

If Kansas City is the city of fountains I feel like Xalapa might well be the city of parks.  We've explored so many parks already and there are still a ton we haven't been to and many that we just seem to stumble upon as well.  Some of them are little with just a few vendors and some are intense rain forests almost.  Here are a few pictures of our many park explorations.

Parque de los Berros

more of Los Berros

more

lots of fun stuff for kids, including pony rides!

Part of Los Lagos, a park with three connecting lakes.

More of Los Lagos

The USBI, it belongs to the Universidad Veracruzana

trails in the USBI.

more USBI

a little pond in the usbi

crossing the little pond in the usbi

ridges that were slightly difficult to walk up!

still in the usbi

a different part of the usbi (I'm telling you, this thing is big!  We were exhausted by the time we got home!)

more usbi!

Octavio en Parque Los Tecajetes

The pictures are kind of dark and super green because it was about to rain.

Little waterfall, kind of hard to see.

Little pond in the park

Two paths converging.

giant fish in the pond.

they were not hurting for food that's for sure!

more of the park

There was a little building with a bunch of snakes you could look at.  Outside were these birds.

They started fighting shortly after this picture was taken.

I've decided I would have liked to go to Hogwarts for the sole reason of being able to own an owl as a pet.