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Mexico City Guide for Tourist

editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000

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 as an elegant preserve for the privileged enjoying their privileges. Included are a two-hundred-room hotel, a large condominium development, golf courses, and a yacht club cum marina. Club Mediterranee has two villages on the Mexican Riviera, both substantial and attractive: one near Ixtapa, 130 miles north of Acapulco; the other near Manzanillo. Visitors from all parts of the U.S. and Canada make up most of Mexico’s tourists and they have been

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Mexico City

editor — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:12:00 +0000

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 prohibition in this country Tijuana was a place for border residents to get a drink. Then it was simply called El Rancho de Tia Juana (Aunt Jane’s Ranch). Today, thanks to tourism and proximity to San Diego its population is close to one million. The city offers bullfights, dog races and a radical change in culture. The same is true of Juarez, across the border from San Antonio, Texas, and to

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MEXICO

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:24:00 +0000

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 land of friendly people, exciting food and drink. The detractors reply: Yes, the food is exciting, especially when loaded with E.coli germs that cause uninterrupted diarrhea and vomiting. Some people are not very friendly, certainly not the police on the take, where justice seems more related to influence than reason. It is the land of the mordida, the payoff, where bribery is a way of life. A land of contrast between

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Mexico City Map

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:12:00 +0000

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 others it serves a function similar to professional football. (Other principal towns and cities have their own corridos, bullfighting stadiums, where toreadors become national heroes, or die trying.) Jai-alai games provide an outlet for gambling. For more placid enjoyment there are the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, a reminder of the days when Mexico City, under the Aztecs, was a series of islands in a lake. Mexico City’s climate is notably affected

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Mexico Map

editor — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:14:34 +0000

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 is part of North America even though the Mexicans refer to U.S. residents as Norte Americanos. Its extensive coastline borders the Pacific on the west and the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean on the east. The Sierra Madre mountains dominate the topography. In the southern state of Oaxaca the Sierra Madre divides and runs northward. The Sierra Madre Oriental mountains form the eastern edge, the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains the

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Mexico City Map

editor — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:14:17 +0000

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 Mexican hands, persons who have lived in Mexico for some time, declare, If involved in an accident, don’t stop, and drive like hell. An extensive bus system also provides services throughout the country and to and from the United States. The buses are usually so crowded that not many North Americans take them. In many small villages, some still not reachable by road, the natives speak only their Indian tongues. About

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Mexico Subway Map

editor — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:13:41 +0000

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 experience in dealing with one Mexican travel insurance company was anything but satisfactory. In Mexico anyone involved in an accident is deemed guilty until proven otherwise. Comprehensive insurance coverage by a Mexican insurance company may mean repairs must be made within Mexico or reimbursement for repair costs done in the U.S. is based on what the repairs would have cost in Mexico. Bizarre tales are told about shakedowns experienced by auto

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Mexico Metro Map

editor — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:12:53 +0000

TRAVEL BY ROAD Mexico has several top-notch highways, especially those around and radiating from Mexico City. Altogether Mexico has a network of 125,000 miles of paved roads. A central super-highway runs straight up and down the center of Mexico. Except for these well maintained and much traveled roads, the visitor is urged to avoid nighttime auto travel. Cattle find the paved roads warm and comfortable for bedding down for the night. As a rule the roads are not as well marked as in the U.S. Signing for turns may consist only of city or town names. A narrow highway runs

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