Mexico Travel

Mexico embraces food tourism to bring visitors

Mexican chef Patricia Quintana, center, shows a pitaya fruit, or dragon fruit, at the San Juan market in Mexico City as she leads a 10-day More culinary tours are being offered since the Mexican government started efforts last year to counter the dent swine flu and drug cartel violence put in its tourism industry.


On the Beatnik trail in Mexico City

A child walks past a fountain at the Luis Cabrera Plaza in Mexico City on April 13. An obligatory stop on any Beat tour is the plaza, on Orizaba at Zacatecas Street, an attractive cafe-ringed plaza with trees and a fountain. Mexico City was a magnet in the 1950s for some of America's greatest Beat Generation writers — Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others.


Uniquely Oaxacan: Beaches, eco-tours, markets

A vendor sorts chiles at the post in Tlacolula market in Tlacolula, Oaxaca on March 7. Oaxaca, with its sky-high mountains, arid valleys, lush tropical forests, cloud forests and beaches, offers tranquility to vacationers.


20 insider tips demystify Mexico City

The view of Centro’s Palacio de Bellas Artes from Torre Latinoamericana.Steering your way to the heart of a city of nearly 10 million is no easy feat. These 20 insider tips demystify the metropolis, from its homegrown design scene to its best cheap eats.


Cancun creates an underwater museum

British artist Jason de Caires Taylor's underwater sculpture In an effort to lure tourists away from coral reefs, an artful artificial reef consisting of 400 life-sized statues will be submerged off the resort of Cancun by the end of 2010.


The rich history in Mexico’s haciendas

The elegant Hacienda de San Antonio in Colima is set on 500 acres of picturesque grounds, with gardens, orchards and a 5,000-acre coffee plantation rolling toward the foot of the Volcan de Fuego.Thanks to the efforts of preservationists and investors who have spent the past decade rescuing hundreds of crumbling properties, the hacienda is enjoying a renaissance.


Swine flu down, bargains up in Mexico

A tourist sunbathes at the resort city of Cancun, Mexico. With the swine-flu scare still alive, but the chances of contracting it in Mexico lower than ever, it could just be the perfect time to head south of the U.S. border.The last time Bud Olson visited Mexico, he ended up in a hospital with kidney stones and missed the ancient Mayan ruins in the seaside town of Tulum.


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