Category: Mexico
Every year around mid-March, people flock to the shores of Los Cabos for its warm waters, glittering nightlife and its celebrity sightings. A mere two-and-a-half hour flight from Los …
Las Hadas (the fairies), near Manzanillo, is an oddity in hoteldom, a hotel of Moorish design, built by a rich Bolivian, sitting on a Mexican bay. It is described …
On weekends day-trippers form lines several blocks long going into and coming from Tijuana and other border towns. As recently as 1920 Tijuana was a small town, and during …
Aficionados of Mexico proclaim it to be the destination to end all destinations: a land of contrasts and wonder, offering beaches, mountains and fascinating Indian ruins inexpensive, colorful the …
The bullfights are a major pan of the Mexican entertainment scene, part sport, part ritual, a place to vent primitive passions. For some the bullfight is an art-form; for …
Oaxaca (pronounced wah-ha-cah), the farthest south most North Americans go in Mexico, has been called a Mexican Classic, an Indian city, with another massive ruin, Monte Alban. The ruins, …
Palenque, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, is said to be the most beautiful of the Mayan ruins. Palenque is 399 miles from Merida over a new paved road, …
Politically, Mexico comprises thirty-one states plus the federal district. Population is about seventy million and growing fast. (Only forty years ago the population was about thirty-five million.) Geographically Mexico …
As in the U.S. there are plenty of ambulance-chasing lawyers who, when an accident occurs, are on hand to extract the maximum amount possible from the tourist. Some old …
Special auto insurance is a must. Without it the traveler may find himself in jail if involved in an accident, guilty or not. Even with the insurance the writer’s …