Great Pyramid of Cholula: Stand in the middle of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla, and look east. There’s a hill. Grass, scrubby trees, a path winding up the side, and at the top a small yellow church with two white towers, the…
Sometime in late October, monarch butterflies that hatched in a field in Ontario or Michigan start flying south. It weighs about half a gram. It has never been more than a few kilometers from where it was born. Somewhere around the second week of…
La Paz Mexico Sea of Cortez: Most people fly into Los Cabos, get in a taxi, and never look north. The airport spits you out toward the resort strip — the pools, the swim-up bars, the golf, the tequila glasses the size of a…
Chiapas Mexico: Most people who fly to Mexico for the first time land in Cancún, spend a week somewhere with a pool and a view of the Caribbean, and go home convinced they’ve seen the country. They’ve seen a sliver of it — a…
Nearly twenty million international travelers fly into Cancún every year, and most of them see the same forty kilometers of it. The plane lands, a transfer van picks them up, and within an hour they are checked into a property on the Hotel Zone…
Copper Canyon Mexico- Most people who land in Chihuahua have never said the word barranca out loud. They came for the train, or for a photo they saw once: a green gorge falling away beneath a glass-floored cable car, somebody’s arms thrown wide at…
A VP of sales told me last year that she’d stopped fighting her CFO about where to take the annual incentive trip. For three years running she’d built a case for somewhere “fresh” — Portugal one year, Thailand another — and every time the…
Most people who visit Oaxaca for the first time arrive with a list. A tlayuda from a market stall. Mole negro, slow-cooked and dark as charcoal. Mezcal from a producer nobody back home has heard of. The list is good — genuinely, it’s one…
There’s a moment that every traveler to Bacalar describes in almost identical terms. You arrive, probably a little road-weary after the drive south from Tulum or Cancún, you step out of the car, you look at the water — and you say something completely…
The opening match kicks off on June 11, 2026, at Mexico City’s legendary Estadio Azteca. Thirteen World Cup matches will unfold across three Mexican cities over the following weeks. And right now, millions of football fans are making the same planning mistake for the…
