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Mexico has an Afro-descendant population with its own music, dance and food, concentrated on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Half of what a visitor needs to know is where it is; the other half is which side of a state line it is on.
Mexico is unevenly accessible in a way that is largely predictable: newer buildings and the capital's transport are better than the reputation, and five hundred year old streets and archaeological sites are not adaptable. Planning is mostly a matter of knowing which is which.
Mexico suits unhurried travel well, and a large community of older North Americans already lives there part of the year. The planning that pays off is about elevation, walking surfaces and how many places you try to see.
There is no single best month for Peru, because the coast, the highlands and the Amazon are not on the same calendar and are frequently doing opposite things. Choosing well means deciding what the trip is actually for.
Most of what governs entry to Peru is the same for everybody, and most of it is arithmetic: how long your passport has left, how many days you are given, and how those days are counted. The one part that is not universal is the one this guide sends you elsewhere to confirm.
Peru holds a desert that almost never rains, a mountain range that makes its own weather, and a rainforest, within a few hundred kilometers of each other. Packing and planning for that is easier once you understand why it happens.
Peru runs on the sol, takes cards in the cities and cash everywhere else, and has two specific money frauds that are worth knowing by name before you arrive rather than after.
A Peru bag has to work at 3,400 meters in the cold, in a gray coastal city, and in a rainforest. That sounds harder than it is, because layers solve most of it and a few specific items solve the rest.
Peru is large, mountainous and not quickly crossed. Flights save days, the long distance buses are better than their reputation in some companies and genuinely dangerous in others, and the route most visitors care about is a single train line.
Peru carries an advisory against all but essential travel to two areas, and neither is anywhere a normal itinerary goes. What reaches ordinary travelers is different: opportunistic theft in three cities, a taxi problem with a specific shape, and protests that close roads and railways at short…