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A restaurant balcony in Oaxaca, during Mexico's Days of the Dead festival.

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Mexico has been in the holiday business successfully for many years with a sensational combination of diverse landscapes, three coasts hosting extensive beaches [Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean's Mayan Riviera], spectacular ancient sites and especially pyramids, peculiar festivals, atmospheric colonial towns, dazzling sunshine, varied and delicious cuisine, haunting music, unusual drinks, chromatic coral, high surf and low prices.
It's a winner!

Chichen Itza's magnificent Kukulkan pyramid in the Yucatan peninsula.

Some popular Mexico tourist attractions:
- a brief stop in Mexico City including a day out at the nearby Teotihuacan pyramid complex.
- a few days in a couple of calm, colonial towns such as Oaxaca or Merida in the company of some good tequila [and find out how Mexicans drink the stuff; hint, it's not via Margeritas!].
- attend a wacky festival such as the Days of the Dead.
- take a trip to a Yucatan pyramid complex such as Uxmal or Chichen-Itza [very different from the massive but not so inspiring Teotihuacan].
- grab some beach time, perhaps with a snorkel or compressed-air tank thrown in the deep end. Choose between the Pacific Coast [more established, bigger beaches] or the Maya Riviera [better coral and access to ancient sites].

Oaxaca Zocalo [city centre], for local people.

Best weather: November-April.
Worst: June-October [wet, hot]; the Yucatan Peninsula is especially susceptible to hurricanes during this season but even if the big H doesn't strike the seas around may be rough and unclear, the skies cloudy and the beaches less pleasant to hang out on, though prices will be down. March/April delivers US College kid overload during the Spring Break [various schools, various dates].

Playa del Carmen, one of the 'Maya Riviera' beaches, Yucatan, Mexico.

Ayy! Arriba! Vamonos!

Information: Mexico Travel Guide | Mexico Map | Beaches Guide | Tours of Mexico