Country Info
- Mexico
- Capital
- Mexican Peso (MXN)
- Currency
- 101,879,171
- Population
- MX
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Mexico Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mexico
Viva Zapatista
This is a top pick! ... an interesting time to be here. Last week, there was a protest over the expulsion of flower vendors in a town near Mexico City, Atenco. The Zapatista (leader? spokesman?) Subcommandante Marcos was in town for a rally for the Zapatista "Other Campaign" ...
Cochiti Lake, Santa Fe, Albuquerque & Roswell NM
This is a top pick! ... more reasonable $6 a night! The landscape was totally different much more desert plain like, which is what we expected New Mexico to look like. The elevation was still 6500ft above sea level. Cochiti Dam is the 11th largest earth dam in the ...
Amigas or Commodore 64s?
This is a top pick! ... 'And how do you say "Can I have a beer"?'. Hannah. Lounging on absorbing couches, below fanning umbrellas in Mexico City's ritzy Polanco, the essential of Spanish are quickly learned. The arrival of hannah and mel from the height of ...
What's in the desert? Life in a bordertown
This is a top pick! ... The border crossing in Palomas is the most casual I have experienced. No bridge and not much more than a gate in a fence-we entered Mexico apparently unnoticed. And as we exited, we had to look for a sign to tell us pedestrians to please stop into the ...
Valle de Bravo or Barco If You're Me
This is a top pick! ... my spanish knowledge etc. etc. All falls into place and perspective at a waterfall and peacefulness and wonder of being in Mexico prevailed. Also, this is where I learned that I was in the midst of make out point, except for erase that ...
Killing Women for Sport
This is a top pick! Femicide/femicidio: the ugly bilingual reality which makes Juarez internationally notorious, as certified by Amnesty International and produced in the movie Bordertown (2007). Over 400 women have been abducted, abused, tortured, and murdered in ...
Cancun/Tulum
This is a top pick! We arrived in Cancun gagging for a decent meal. So, after we eventually found the hostel and checked in, we went for Mexican, after Cuba it was a very decent meal! We went to the bus station and got tickets for Tulum, which is a place on the coast about ...
Feeling shitty in Mexico City
This is a top pick! ... round the world ticket finishes with a flight to London then the shuttle back up to Manchester. Oh well we still have a night in Mexico City, which will probably involve looking for a worm that lives in the bottom of tequila bottles, I´m sure if we drink ...
Get your kicks... from Chitchen Itz...
This is a top pick! Chapter I: If you're impressed and you know it... My clap's 1000 clones zigzag their way across the Grand Ball Court towards the Temple of Venus at the speed of sound. The call of birds surrounds me, consumes me: the echoes, the echoes of echoes, ...
3 orphanages and an asylum
This is a top pick! ... her on her Saturday afternoon visit of mercy to three orphanages and a home for physically and developmentally disabled in Mexico. She supplies these groups with food and connects potential donors with their needs. Mexican Catholic sisters operated ...
I HEART MEXICO CITY
This is a top pick! Dios Mio!!!! Anyone that says Mexico City is not worth visiting, get in and out, no need for more than a few days, surely did not spend time truly getting to know this city. Mexico City is full of art and culture. There are museums ...
Paid to Play Episode 9: Island of the Dead
This is a top pick! On Patzcuaro Lake sits the small island of Janitzio where the largest celebration of The Day of the Dead takes place each year. Some 10,000 people or so will jam themselves onto this little island every November 1st and go to the even smaller ...
Paid to Play Episode 4: The one about the........
This is a top pick! ... , touring ancient ruins, and other tasks associated with the job. So here are some new fotos from around the region of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. At the moment this is all I have time for but there is more to come in the ...
Independence day in Mexico City!
This is a top pick! After last night´s activities, I slept in pretty late...almost 10! I know, that´s so unlike me...but it´s also unlike me to get into a massive foam fight on the street. haha. So I rolled outta bed, grabbed some breakfast, then Leanne and I went to ...
My honeymoon with buses here is OVER!!
This is a top pick! ... . I managed to get a ticket for a 4:40 bus, so was much happier. Unfortunately, we were 20 minutes late leaving (Back on Mexico time, apparently!) and the washroom at the back of the bus (close to where I was sitting, obviously) was broken, so the whole ...
A night out Cuban style...
This is a top pick! Lets start off with an amusing moment recalled by Lady E at Fort Lauderdale airport when coming out of the human xray machine It was suggested I had something strapped to my knee, I remarked I had no choice it was so long.... childish, jest so very ...
So this is Zapatista country!!
This is a top pick! This morning was a bright and early start 5:45 to get the bus at 6:30, which actually didn´t come until 7. Pretty much standard. The thing is, around here, you never know when something could be on time, so you have to be. It was a pretty full bus, ...
What's that loud ticking???
This is a top pick! ... a bit of a break, so I decided to do some writing instead of hanging out by the pool today. My face is pretty red - much more burnt than it got on my entire Mexico / Central America journey! I guess I'm not being as dilligent with the sunscreen. ...
A different type of travel
This is a top pick! ... was expecting to be sad to give up Spanish but it turns out that Spanish is almost as much a lingua franca in Belize as in Mexico. San Ignacio isn't fantastic itself but there's a little town, Bullet Tree, a 10 minute drive away, which is great. We stayed ...
Get There Early
This is a top pick! Out towards the centre of the Yucatan Peninsula there are two Mayan ruins, Ek Balam and Chichen Itza, so we headed to Valladolid a town which is conveniently located near both. Arriving in this picturesque place we easily found a cheap hotel for ...
Betting and Shopping
This is a top pick! Let's just say it's Viva Las Vegas time! Outside the busy bus from Los Angeles all we could see was desert, desert and more desert. Why would anyone build a city out in this hot desolate place? Anyway as night set in we could see a glow ...
Courageous visit to Juarez..."April Fools!"
This is a top pick! Friends Peter & Polly want to set up a composting toilet in the community center they're organizing in Palomas, MX, so we accompanied them into the war zone of Juarez to visit the Sisters of the Incarnate Word who sponsor a workshop that ...
The adventure really begins
This is a top pick! ... the U.S. and flew to Cancun via Atlanta and Indianapolis. As luck would have it, I sat next to Lily and Carolina from Merida, Mexico. They were visiting friends in the US and had each been exchange students several years ago in the US and Canada. They had ...
Out of this world: White Sands National Monument
This is a top pick! ... of earth’s most unusual spots. An "otherworldly" landscape rewards the earth-bound visitor of this site in southern New Mexico. White Sands contains the world's largest gypsum dune fields –far and away dwarfing the others in a ...
Palenque, Jungle and Mayans Ruins
This is a top pick! Palenque is definetely one of my favorite ruins site ever. What is the most striking though in Palenque is its energy (7th chakra which is the connection with higher dimension). The energy is really high and many bohemians go there to live ...
damn, the desert is HOT!
This is a top pick! ... mirror tomorrow. I'm being overly harsh, but I think we all know that I'm not a small town girl, and it being in Mexico doesn't make it okay. Although infinitely more amusing trying to explain why I'm here. Apparently the locals can't figure it out ...
Chihuahua - the town not the dog!
This is a top pick! ... Chihuahua rather than the train! From here we are heading south quite a bit in order to get to see more of the southern end of Mexico, which has lots of interesting places to see. It's quite cool being in a town that named a breed of dog! They have ...
Oaxaca
This is a top pick! OK, first, the doctors in Oaxaca tried to kill me with Flagyl. They had me on that and another strong antibiotic. I got all crazy sweaty, vertigo, shaky, nauseated etc etc. I got off the meds and, guess what, feel much better. ...