Uruapan, Michoacán
Uruapan Mexico Waterfalls Avocado Country and Parícutin
Uruapan is the second largest city in Michoacán and the heart of Mexico's avocado country, yet its best-loved attraction...
Valladolid, Yucatán
Valladolid Mexico Cenote Swims Colonial Plazas and Ek Balam
Valladolid is a small colonial city in eastern Yucatán with painted facades, a lively square and cenotes within walking...
Xcalak, Quintana Roo
Xcalak Mexico Fishing Village Reef Snorkeling and Chinchorro
Xcalak is a small, sleepy fishing village at the southern end of Quintana Roo, close to the border with Belize.
Xilitla, San Luis Potosí
Xilitla Mexico Surreal Las Pozas Gardens and Huasteca Caves
Xilitla is a small mountain town in the Huasteca region of San Luis Potosí, best known for the surreal concrete sculptur...
Zirahuén, Michoacán
Zirahuén Mexico Quiet Mountain Lake and Purépecha Food
Lake Zirahuén is a small, deep mountain lake in the highlands of Michoacán, a quiet corner of the Purépecha heartland th...
Agua Azul Cascades, Chiapas
Agua Azul Cascades Mexico Turquoise Swims and Misol-Ha
The Cascadas de Agua Azul are a long series of waterfalls on the Xanil River in the jungle of Chiapas. Their water is ri...
Angangueo, Michoacán
Angangueo Mexico Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries
Angangueo is a small mining town tucked into a canyon in far eastern Michoacán, at around 2,580 metres in the Sierra de...
Barra de Potosí, Guerrero
Barra de Potosí Mexico Mangrove Lagoon Tours and Whales
Barra de Potosí is a small fishing village on the Costa Grande of Guerrero, where a mangrove lagoon sits right behind th...
Calakmul, Campeche
Calakmul Mexico Jungle Maya City and Biosphere Ruins
Calakmul is a Maya city rising out of the largest intact tropical forest in Mexico. Its great pyramids look over an endl...Ad
Campeche City, Campeche
Campeche City Mexico Pirate Walls Pastel Streets and Edzná
Campeche City is a walled port on the Gulf of Mexico, built by Spanish colonists in 1540 and fortified against pirates....
Chignahuapan, Puebla
Chignahuapan Mexico Christmas Ornaments and Thermal Springs
Chignahuapan is a small mountain town in the Sierra Norte of Puebla, known for its brightly painted plaza, a basilica wi...
Cuetzalan, Puebla
Cuetzalan Mexico Cobbled Streets Churches and Coffee Farms
Cuetzalan is a hill town in the cloud-covered Sierra Norte de Puebla, where steep cobbled streets, white houses with dar...
El Tajín, Veracruz
El Tajin Mexico Pyramid of the Niches and Voladores
El Tajín is the most important archaeological site in Veracruz and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992. Set among lo...
Grutas de Cacahuamilpa, Guerrero
Grutas de Cacahuamilpa Mexico Giant Caverns Near Taxco
The Grutas de Cacahuamilpa are one of the best-known cave systems in Mexico, set inside a national park in the Sierra Ma...
Hierve el Agua, Oaxaca
Hierve el Agua Mexico Petrified Waterfalls and Cliff Pools
Hierve el Agua is a set of white mineral formations on a mountainside in Oaxaca that look like waterfalls frozen in ston...
Huatulco, Oaxaca
Huatulco Mexico Nine Bays Calm Beaches and Pacific Sunsets
Huatulco is a string of nine sheltered bays on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, backed by tropical dry forest and the Sierra...
Palenque, Chiapas
Palenque Mexico Jungle Maya Ruins and Waterfalls
Palenque sits where the Chiapas foothills meet the rainforest, and its Maya temples rise out of the trees as if the jung...
Tepoztlán, Morelos
Tepoztlán Mexico Pyramid Hikes Mole Verde and Market Streets
Tepoztlán is a small town in the Mexican state of Morelos, set in a valley beneath towering cliffs and about an hour sou...Ad
Tlaquepaque, Jalisco
Tlaquepaque Mexico Pottery Streets Mariachi and Birria
Tlaquepaque, officially San Pedro Tlaquepaque, is the pottery and crafts town that Guadalajara grew around. Pedestrian s...
Toluca, State of Mexico
Toluca Mexico Cosmovitral Stained Glass and Chorizo
Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico, sits at about 2,600 metres above sea level and is the highest state capital...
Uxmal, Yucatán
Uxmal Mexico Pyramid of the Magician and Puuc Route Ruins
Uxmal is one of the best restored and best preserved Maya cities in the Yucatán, a World Heritage site in the Puuc hills...
Villahermosa, Tabasco
Villahermosa Mexico Olmec Heads and Comalcalco Ruins
Villahermosa is the capital of Tabasco, a green, humid city on the Grijalva River in southeast Mexico.
Coatepec, Veracruz
Coatepec Mexico Coffee Farms Orchid Museum and Waterfalls
Coatepec is a cool, green mountain town in the central highlands of Veracruz, about 1,200 metres above sea level and a s...
Córdoba, Veracruz