Friday, November 14, 2008

Campeche


Campeche is an ancient trading port, are preserved remains of the wall with two gates, two fortresses, one of which is a museum, and seven bastions, which are also museums and venues for the exhibition. These walls, fortresses and bastions protected the city from constant attacks by pirates in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Due to these historical monuments, as well as several other buildings of historic city center (one of the most well preserved in Mexico), the place was declared by UNESCO in 2002 as the Heritage of Mankind.
The city of Campeche is the capital of the same state, and is located in southern Mexico in the Gulf. Tropical climate dominate in Campeche , the average temperature is 26 ° C, in summer and autumn comes the rainy season.

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Mexican Tourism Threatened

The precarious situation of the U.S. economy, high prices for gasoline and bad weather put at risk the tourist business in Mexico, because the Americans stopped traveling, even to the most popular Mexican resorts.
White beaches of the shores of Mexico, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the unusual city-colony of Spain, scattered around the country each year attract hundreds of tourists are refusing to fill expensive hotels and stylish bungalow.
However the hotel visitor amount parameter at the most popular resorts in Mexico in the first 2 weeks of July was less than 3%, compared with 63% last year, as the Ministry of Tourism statistics.
The favorite resort of American students, Los Kabos, this year has suffered a severe blow - the decline of visits to the town was 19%. The same fate comprehend and other beach cities such as Cancun.