Mexico

End of the World Brings Tourism Boom to Mexico

Tulum ©GollyGforce According to some interpretations of the ancient Maya calendar, December 21, 2012 marks the end of the world and the Mayan regions of Southern Mexico are making preparations for the party of the millennium–just in case they are right. Thanks to vacationers excited to experience the “end of the world” where it was [...]

Website Offers Globetrotters Virtual Passport Stamps

Passport Pages ©jonrawlinson In an era of open European borders and passports with digital chips the passport stamp is now almost the exception instead of the rule in international travel. Now, a new website and app called Visastamper is offering a virtual passport service to give travelers the souvenir stamps from all of the countries [...]

Pop Up Hotels Next Big Thing in Travel

Tropical Cabana ©jonrawlinson The pop up phenomena has become a staple of the restaurant business. A temporary restaurant, usually centered around some kind of event provides the opportunity for young renegade cooks or very successful mainstream chefs to experiment and create without the need for huge financial backing or the fear of bankruptcy. Inspired by [...]

Photo of the Moment: Neighborhood Calm, Mexico City

Top 5 Tasty Mexican Dishes

Mexican food holds a special place in my heart and I have many fond memories of Mexican themed meals shared with friends. With Mexican restaurants to be found all over the world, anyone can experience the fiery taste of an Enchilada topped with chilli sauce and washed down with a tasty Mexican Mojito (they replace [...]

The World’s Most Bizarre Spots to Scuba Dive

Scuba Diving ©Ilse Reijs and Jan-Noud Hutten If you are bored of diving in ordinary coral reefs and swimming with colorful tropical fish, add these wacky diving sites to your next travel itinerary. In Iceland you can swim in a crack in the earth caused by two continental plates moving away from each other, the [...]

Mexico’s Recycled Concrete Tube Hotel

Though the idea of sleeping inside a concrete tube probably doesn’t sound that appealing, architect firm T3arc have found a way to make sleeping inside a pipe not only comfortable but also a holiday experience. Mexico’s Tubohotel, which opened in 2010, is a unique and affordable holiday destination created from recycled concrete tubes. Located approximately [...]

Travel Safety in Perspective: USA and Mexico

[A]ccording to the FBI, “An estimated 15,241 persons were murdered nationwide in 2009″ in the United States of America. Officially, 111 U.S. citizens were killed in Mexico last year, a third in just two cities. Almost all of them were involved in illicit vocations, usually the trafficking of guns, drugs, or people across the border. [...]

Biggest Great White Shark Caught, Released

An expedition crew has hauled up—and released—what the team says is the biggest great white shark yet caught. The 17.9-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) male behemoth was found off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island in fall 2009. The animal breaks the team’s previous record of 16.8 feet (5.1 meters), set when they caught a female great white named Kimel. Holy [...]

U.S. Broadens Mexico Travel Warning

The U.S. State Department has broadened its travel warning for Mexico, advising citizens to avoid certain areas and steer clear of driving at night. The new alert urges Americans to defer nonessential travel in regions where drug-related violence has surged, including the border state of Tamaulipas and the central state of Michoacan. It also mentions [...]

Language at Risk of Dying Out, Last Two Speakers Aren’t Talking

The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction. There are just two people left who can speak it fluently – but [...]

Creepy Tourism: Mexico’s Island of the Dolls

© BizarreMag.com On the continuum of Things that Scare the Bajeezus Out of Me, porcelain children’s dolls rank up there with Ronald McDonald and unnaturally large spiders. Which is why this is just the type of thing that haunts my dreams: Mexico’s Island of the Dolls (La Isla De Las Munecas) is an isolated weirdfest [...]

Mazatlan Travel: A Budget Vacation Guide to Mexico’s “Pearl of the Pacific”

Editor Mike Richard discovers small city Mexico on a four-day journey through Mazatlan, the “Pearl of the Pacific”.

The Spirit of the Running People: Three Cultures You Should Know

Turner Wright explores three “running cultures”, in which running is life, deeply ingrained in the hearts and minds of the natives.

Photo of the Moment: Pondering Dog Things, Oaxaca

Mexican Town Launches Women-Only “Pink Taxis” to Undercut Super-Creepy Cabbies

It turns out that some of the male taxi drivers in Puebla, Mexico are pigs. It might even be the case that most have boundary issues when it comes to their female passengers, indulging in constant leering, harassing, and propositioning. So the city invested some money and, following the lead of other municipalities all over [...]

Photo of the Moment: Panic Epidemy, Mexico City

Photo of the Moment: Spiderman’s Late for Work, Mexico

Photo of the Moment: Smiling Eyes, Oaxaca

Absolut Apologizes for Mexican Ad

Absolut Vodka has apologized for running an ad depicting the southwestern states of the US as part of Mexico as part of its ”In an Absolute World” campaign which depicts ideal situations. In the ad, the US Mexican border is outlined as it was before the US Mexican war of Independence in which the regions [...]

Pink Buses Curb Groping for Mexican Women

© fazen Mexican woman have been offered a reprieve from the unwelcome attention of Lotharios. A new ‘women’s only’ bus service just rolled out in this, one of the world’s largest cities, complete with pink signs in the front and back. Every year, close to 22 million people squeeze themselves into Mexico City’s crowded buses [...]