Mexico
- Population: 106.4 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Mexico City
- Area: 1.96 million sq km (758,449 sq miles)
- Major language: Spanish
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 72 years (men), 77 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 peso = 100 centavos
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Mexico Travel Guide Online
Mexico is the largest and wealthiest of the countries in Central America, largely due to it’s proximity with the US, with whom it has a love/hate relationship.
That is, ...
Independence Day and a Night on the Street in Mexico City
I sat down on my foam mat in the desolation of the nearly empty Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square. I shared my concrete bed with half a dozen Mexican bums ...
Escape From Mexico
Mexico. A land of sunshine and senoritas, cold cervezas and tequila, cheap drugs and beaches…good times and bad times. I was 18. I was no freshie to travel ...
Road Trip to the Baja Badlands
I’d been knocking around a hostel in Ocean Beach, San Diego for a few weeks, keeping busy by alternating between various beds, bars and the beach, when I’d hooked up ...
Hitching with Drug Smugglers in Mexico
Still shaking from the stress of a night sleeping rough on the streets of Morelia, Mexico, I set off down the street toward the other side of town. The ...
The San Miguelada - Party of a Lifetime
Once in a lifetime, if a man is lucky, he will experience a truly extraordinary party. It should be an experience that he will look back on for the rest ...
The Tunnel Witches of Guanajuato
I live in Mexico and Mexico is NOT Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana or Cabo. If you want to go to a magical city in Mexico you must go ...
Sleeping Rough in Morelia, Mexico
It was a long road from my cozy little home in Guanajuato, Mexico to the coast of Michoacan. On the map, it had looked like I could make it in ...
Facing a Fear
I’m afraid of water.
It started the summer I was five when my uncle “taught” me to swim by throwing me into the middle of Jones’ pond. My ...
Baja Surf Trip
People say a lot of things about California – that it’s the end of civilization, that it’s destined to fall into the sea, that its beauty can be fake ...
Dating Mexican Girls & Guys
Mexicans are amongst the most sentimental people in the world and at least half of their sex education comes from the tele novelas.
“_Ay_,” They’ll sigh when they fall in love ...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Tortillas, Manana
“Mexico is slow.”
My friend Tanya told me: a big mama type born and raised in Mexico but with features and build inherited from her Cuban mother. The people in ...
San Cristobal, Chiapas - Zapatista Story, Mexico
San Cristobal de las Casas is just a few hours up from the jungle but the air cools dramatically, crisp breezes from the hills replacing the moist breath of the ...
Palenque Travel Mexico
Life dripped off every leaf and it was as though we could hear the jungle breathing around us. Sunlight began to filter through the dewy vegetation and we walked like ...
The Virgin de Guadalupe - the Brown-Skinned Madonna
The Virgin of Guadalupe – savior of the indigenous or Spanish invention?
Zapatistas Still Going - Marcos at Cerro de San Pedro
Political revolt still is alive and well in Mexico.
Road Trip... Tex Mex Border (and back)
This rte 57 is familiar to everybody who does the haul up central Mexico.
Migration Adventures Episode 3
Tomas of Zacatecas, Mexico gets stopped by traffic cops in USA, learns English while working illegally…Today’s true adventure travellers….
Mexico Travel News
- Attendance figures broken — twice — at league tourney - Las Vegas Sun
- Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city - The Associated Press
- Transat strategy 'didn't work' - Montreal Gazette
- Spring break warnings for Mexico travel - Tucson Citizen
- Spring Break Partiers Want Mexico, All-Inclusive and All-You-Can-Drink - BNET
