How did they get there?
Popocatepetl, a magnificent conical volcano, overlooks the city and plain.

I tried to ascend it but a damaged ankle failed me.

A trip to Oaxaca to see wonderful Mitla should not be missed.

There also is the tree of Tuli, a cypress, said to measure 154 feet round its trunk.

Also a trip to Orizaba city is equally interesting, if only for the view of the magnificent Pico de Orizaba, a gigantic and most beautiful cone 18,000 feet high; but also for the beautiful scenery displayed in the descent from the high plateau of Mexico, a very sudden descent of several thousand feet in fifteen miles, with a railroad grade of one in fourteen, from a temperate climate at once into a tropical one.