Mexico travel

December 2024 update: This guide to the Maya Train originally went up in June of 2024. Since then, Mexico elected a new president, but from the same party, so work continues. The line to Tulum went into operation in September and supposedly the other lines are complete, to Chetumal and across the Yucatan Peninsula. Check …

Do you want to travel from the Mexico mainland to the Baja Peninsula? The two largest cities that are connected by transportation are Mazatlan on the mainland and La Paz on the peninsula. If you are traveling in Mexico by foot, motorcycle, car, or RV, you can do what I did and and take the …

Ever since I started this budget travel blog back in 2003, I’ve written regularly about safe travels and the perception of travel risks. Even though people—especially Americans—generally face more deadly risks at home than they do abroad, people who don’t travel much think it’s a big scary world out there and they have to be …

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies start heading south for the winter, migrating like birds and ending up at El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary in the state of Michoacan. There are several other places they land where you can visit and see them in their natural habitat, but El Rosario is the biggest one and has …

Want to see thousands of interesting Mexican masks in one place? Head to the Museo Rafael Coronel Museum in Zacatecas. I first arrived in this part of Mexico while on assignment to review some hotels in Aguascalientes and Zacatecas. The former has a great Museo de los Muertos (Museum of the Dead) and the latter …