Oaxaca is a colonial city famous for its food, including seven moles, mezcal and markets. Above the city, Monte Albán was the Zapotec capital, a flattened mountain top with plazas and pyramids, a UNESCO site.
The Day of the Dead (around 1–2 November) and the Guelaguetza festival in July are spectacular. Hierve el Agua's petrified waterfalls are nearby.
A community-run ecotourism project a few kilometres from Mazunte, where local guides paddle you in canoes through a mangrove lagoon to see crocodiles…
Mexico's national sea turtle centre, in a village that was once a turtle-hunting town until hunting was banned in 1990.
A rocky headland at the western end of Mazunte beach, on the Oaxaca coast, and the southernmost point of Oaxaca.
A small, wooded island just off Acapulco's peninsula, with a calm, clear beach for swimming and snorkelling, a lighthouse walk and seafood restaurants.
Since the 1930s, Acapulco's clavadistas have dived from ledges up to 35 m high on the cliffs of La Quebrada into a narrow rocky channel, timing their…
The blue house in Coyoacán where the artist Frida Kahlo was born and lived with Diego Rivera, with her paintings, studio, clothes and garden.
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