“Upon entering La Malinche National Park from its eastern slopes — coming in from Veracruz, through the pueblo mágico of Huamantla in Tlaxcala — you can grasp the sheer magnitude of La Malinche. Listed as Mexico’s sixth-tallest peak, the inactive volcano rises with muscularity above the desert surroundings. The adjacent hills and peaks in the region are dwarfed by La Malinche’s vast circumference, which takes up a large chunk of real estate in Tlaxcala, and also creeps into the bordering state of Puebla.”
Alan Chazaro, Writer
La Malinche, both the mountain and the eponymous national park, is a treasured weekend getaway destination for those from Mexico City.
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Some of the magazine’s selections are quite well known, but others will send even veteran Mexico explorers, foreign or native-born, to Google maps for guidance.
