Mexico Tourist Attractions

From dinosaur bones to volcanoes, Mexico is famous for its natural wonders, beauty and antique look and feel. Mexico is a large country with a variety of landscapes that make it a paradise for travelers and locals alike. Mexico is home to large industrialized cities, high [...]

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Mexico Tourist Attractions

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 17:32 No Comments

From dinosaur bones to volcanoes, Mexico is famous for its natural wonders, beauty and antique look and feel. Mexico is a large country with a variety of landscapes that make it a paradise for travelers and locals alike. Mexico is home to large industrialized cities, high [...]

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Park and Fly to Mexico!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 17:30 No Comments

The beautiful country of Mexico lies on the southern border of America, covering almost 2 million square kilometres. In the Americas it is the fifth largest country and the 14th largest independant nation in the World! According to the World Tourism Organisation, Mexico has one of the largest tourism industries [...]

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Travelling to Mexico from Edinburgh!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 17:29 No Comments

Edinburgh Airport traditionally dealt with short haul flights to Europe and surrounding areas, or acted as a starting point for tourists to fly to London then beyond. However, more recently Edinburgh has opened routed to the Mexico, and companies such as Opodo, CheapFlights and DialaFlight have all begin operating air fares [...]

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Frugal Mexico

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:31 No Comments

In Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico, green is never simply green. From the air, green rolls over the unending mountains, intense and damp where there are forests and nubbly like rough felt when the trees end. In the streets of San Cristóbal de las Casas, the hill town in the [...]

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A View of Pueblo Life From the Inside

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:25 No Comments

AT about 8:30 at night, an artillery-like barrage of fireworks shattered the silence, followed by the oompah of a tuba and the beating of drums. My curiosity aroused, I left the simple wooden cabin in which I was staying and went into the darkness to investigate. I found a slow-moving parade [...]

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Where the Streets Are Paved With Sand

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:18 No Comments

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THE road to Holbox isn’t an entirely promising one. Our trip to this small Mexican island began much the way my husband and I had been told to expect: with a ride in a dented van that, an hour after leaving the Cancún airport, veered off the main highway and [...]

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Run! Hide! The Illegal Border Crossing Experience

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:13 No Comments

CLAD in black clothes and moonlight, our guide Poncho adjusted his ski mask and faced us to speak. The desert has claimed many lives, he said, but tonight we would make it across the border.
The night was crisp and clear in the central Mexican highlands, the moon illuminating mesquite trees, cactus and [...]

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It’s Hot. It’s Hip. It’s Tijuana?

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:05 No Comments

WHEN you walk across the border from the United States to Mexico and the steel revolving doors clank behind you, locking you in, there they are — the pharmacists in their crisp white coats offering you discount drugs on the street, as if they were Sno-Kones, not bottles of pills, and the [...]

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Following Fact and Fiction Into a Colonial City

Monday, July 19, 2010 10:02 No Comments

IN the late summer of 1880, Susan and Oliver Ward traveled by steamship to Veracruz, Mexico. They then boarded a train and finally a stagecoach, heading 450 miles inland to the state of Michoacán. Along the way, the couple passed through towns and cities that had been built soon after the [...]

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Costa Careyes, Mexico: A Pacific Resort Where the Air Kisses Are Understated

Monday, July 19, 2010 9:58 No Comments

THE sun was setting above Costa Careyes, a luxury development on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and as it lowered into the foam-capped sea, its light was refracted through a massive, puzzling structure on the dunes that looked like Freddy Kruger’s knifelike finger nails.
The out-there creation — actually the beginnings of [...]

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