Articles tagged with "Mexico"
Mexico spans deserts, two tropical coasts and a high volcanic plateau, and the plateau is where most of the cities are. Understanding that is most of what you need to pack correctly.
Mexico grants tourists a stay of up to 180 days, and almost everybody reads that as 180 days. It is a ceiling, not a default, and the figure that governs your trip is written by hand on a stamp at the border.
Mexico is easier to time than most large countries, because most of it shares one wet season and one dry one. What varies is not the month so much as the elevation you are standing at.
The Costa Chica carries Mexico's Afro-descendant heritage, and it carries no inscription and no monument. It also straddles two states, one of which is under a travel advisory and one of which is not.
Oaxaca and Monte Alban were inscribed together as a single property, which is an unusual thing for UNESCO to do and is the key to visiting them. They are two halves of one story about a valley.
Teotihuacan was already a ruin when the Aztecs found it and gave it the name we still use. Knowing that, and knowing how the city was laid out, changes a visit from a walk past pyramids into something legible.