Each winter, millions of monarch butterflies migrate up to 4,000 km from Canada and the USA to fir forests in Michoacán, covering the trees in orange, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walk or ride a horse up to the colonies at El Rosario.
The season is late November to March; best in February. It's at 3,000 m; dress warmly.
One of the world's great museums, with the Aztec Sun Stone, Olmec heads, Maya treasures and a recreated tomb of King Pakal, in a building with a vast…
The blue house in Coyoacán where the artist Frida Kahlo was born and lived with Diego Rivera, with her paintings, studio, clothes and garden.
The historic heart of Mexico City, built over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, with the vast Zócalo square, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Templo May…
A huge ancient city near Mexico City, once one of the largest in the world, with the Avenue of the Dead, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of th…
A colourful colonial silver-mining town in a ravine, with streets running through tunnels, plazas and the Callejón del Beso.
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…
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