| About 40 miles from Cancun, despite its being one of the fastest growing communities in Latin America, Playa del Carmen still maintains a small-town feel. You can still imagine how it must have looked when it was a small fishing community. But today, restaurants, hotels, and shops are popping up everywhere and owners come from all over the world, attracted by the beautiful beaches and the... |  |
| San Miguel is a beautiful colonial town. There aren't many tourist attractions here, just charm -- and lots of it. It is a known for the community of artists at the Instituto Allende. As you wander the cobblestone streets, you'll also find a great number of businesses built around art -- furniture shops, antiques, folk artb, and galleries. There's quite an American community and it feels like... |  |
| This sleepy beach town comes alive with activity as cruise ships drop off tourists for the day and, like actors, shop and restaurant owners spring to action, opening up shop and encouraging visitors to stop by along Avenida Majahaul, the main drag -- just about the only street you need to visit -- with shops, restaurants, and hotels across the street from the sandy beach. And the beach! Thanks... |  |
| Oaxaca is an absolute must-see if your journey takes you anywhere near Mexico City or southern Mexico. Both a state within the country of Mexico and a colorful colonial town with enough mouth-watering street food vendors to keep you occupied all day, Oaxaca's got Mexico covered -- deep caverns, high peaks, ancient Zapotec and Mixtec ruins, waterfalls, natural springs, and spicy Oaxacan mole sauce... |  |
| This small town in the state of Puebla's foggy hilltops is a great place to walk up and down cobblestoned roads, past churches and small business, seemingly through the clouds that surround the city, stopping to sample yummy regional food at small local restaurants. Outside of town, tour guides will take you to ride horseback to visit canyons, waterfalls, and caves, but the main attraction in... |  |
| This is a pretty small, low-key town south of Cancun. It attracts a pretty big community of expats just livin' the dream, setting up near the lake, enjoying the weather, and taking beach trips. Major local activities include: sitting by the lagoon with a cold beer, visiting the local regional museum in an old Spanish fort, and gobbling up the cochinita pibil tacos at the municipal president's... |  |
| East of Mexico City, Puebla, the fourth most populated city in Mexico, is worth a visit if you are in Mexico City. It is a colonial town full of colorful chapels, churches, ex-convents, and monestaries. The city is famous for it's Tavalera tile production (tiles that you will see on more than one building as you make your way around the city), delicious candies, and the invention of mole (the... |  |
| If you fly into Mexico City, the crowds of buildings on the ground below seem to stretch on forever – after all, it is one of the most populous cities in the world (roughly 22 million people in the greater urban area, depending on where you draw the boundaries). Though notorious for crime and pollution, this culturally and historically rich mega-metropolis of the Americas is far more than holding... |  |
| Some old travel guides describe this as a small town, and though you may feel like a small town in the cobblestoned downtown where mariachis wait for customers and vendors sell cotton candy in the street, Cuernavaca is a city growing with modern housing developments and mega-malls. Still, it is a weekend haven for Mexico City's wealthy who can afford a weekend home away from their own sprawling... |  |
| A funky, relatively secluded little beach town on the southern coast of Mexico in the Oaxacan state, Puerto Escondido literally means "hidden port" and retains a good bit of that best-kept-secret feel. It's still one of the the biggest of all the beach towns and villages strung along that balmy strip of Mexican coastline, making it easy to get to by bus, but is still small, relaxed, and tasteful.... |  |
| Acapulco is a great old beach town. In some places you might feel like you've stepped back in time to Elizabeth Taylor's, Elivs's, and J.F.K.'s Acapulco. That's the way you might feel, say, watching the famous divers at La Quebrada as they plunge head-first from ragged cliffs into shallow shallow moonlit waters, with spectators watching from the balcony of the Mirador Hotel. In other places,... |
| A nice alternative to the packaged tours of Puerto Vallarta, and boasting a closer proximity to 'authentic' Mexicana, Ixtapa is a lot more than just a fun name to pronounce after a couple of blue agave margaritas. |
| Zipolite (pronounced Zee-po-LEE-tay) is a tiny, hammock-strewn beach town along Mexico's south central Oaxacan coastline. Though it's one beach town among many in the region, Zipolite is renowned more than the others as a backpacker's haven. Although, strangely enough, the Zapotec definition of the word "zipolite" is allegedly "beach of the death," never fear: Zipolite is relaxed, friendly, and... |
| Tankah was once an important Mayan ceremonial center. It is now home to several boutique hotels (none of them are bargains), an excellent (if kind of pricey) seafood restaurant, and happily sun-burnt tourists. It has such beautiful beaches that the Corona company has filmed several of their "Escape to Paradise" commercials in the area. But, perhaps the most beautiful thing is that it is still... |  |
| The state capital of Michoacan, originally called Valladolid, is now called Morelia in honor of the Jose Maria Morelos, one of the heroes of the movement for Independece. It was one of the first citys established by the Spanish in Mexico and is full of old Spanish-style mansions. The small town of Patzcuaro should not be missed if you are in the area. Patzcuaro was founded by the beloved... |  |
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