Places to visit in Mexico
Discover our guide to the most exciting, memorable and inspiring places to visit.
Baja California
Experience year-round sunshine, sugary white-sand beaches and translucent seas teeming with marine life, including nurseries of gray and humpback whales.
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Caribbean coast: Riviera Maya and Holbox
Mexico's Caribbean Riviera Maya offers family-friendly holidays on golden beaches with watersports and Mayan ruined temples. Book with Journey Latin America.
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Chiapas, San Cristobal and Palenque
This stronghold of indigenous lifestyle boasts jungles, rivers, canyons and lakes as backdrop to traditional settlements and some fine pre-Columbian ruined temples.
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Colonial and silver towns
Visit former silver mining towns set among starkly beautiful hills, which share a heritage of baroque churches, leafy squares and pastel-washed houses.
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Copper Canyon
The seemingly endless Copper Canyon cuts a swathe through the barren desert, offering views of some of the continent's most spectacular mountain scenery.
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Mexico City
Mexico City is mind-bogglingly huge. Wander through secretive lanes to a monumental cathedral, admire the arty colonial quarter of Coyoacán or relax in the shady Chapultepec Park.
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Oaxaca
Visit Oaxaca, Mexico’s centre of culture with a long multi-layered history. Book with Journey Latin America.
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Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit
Situated on the curve of the Pacific coast’s Bahia de Banderas is the busy town of Puerto Vallarta, overlooked by jungle-clad mountains and flanked by dozens of golden sand beaches.
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Southern Pacific Coast
Landscapes here vary from white-sand surfer beaches and arid deserts to Mediterranean-style scrub and luxuriant forest.
Along this extensive coastline there are areas which are highly commercialised (Acapulco, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta). However, there are hotels and resorts with their own extensive grounds on less developed stretches of coast, especially around Manzanillo and Zihuatanejo. The Oaxaca shoreline around Huatulco and Puerto Escondido is particularly spectacular, with stretches of virgin beach.
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Yucatan Peninsula
Explore pretty colonial towns, soft white-sand beaches and sacred Mayan temples hidden in lush, tangled jungles
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Baja California
Experience year-round sunshine, sugary white-sand beaches and translucent seas teeming with marine life, including nurseries of gray and humpback whales.
Explore more
Caribbean coast: Riviera Maya and Holbox
Mexico's Caribbean Riviera Maya offers family-friendly holidays on golden beaches with watersports and Mayan ruined temples. Book with Journey Latin America.
Explore more
Chiapas, San Cristobal and Palenque
This stronghold of indigenous lifestyle boasts jungles, rivers, canyons and lakes as backdrop to traditional settlements and some fine pre-Columbian ruined temples.
Explore more
Colonial and silver towns
Visit former silver mining towns set among starkly beautiful hills, which share a heritage of baroque churches, leafy squares and pastel-washed houses.
Explore more
Copper Canyon
The seemingly endless Copper Canyon cuts a swathe through the barren desert, offering views of some of the continent's most spectacular mountain scenery.
Explore more
Mexico City
Mexico City is mind-bogglingly huge. Wander through secretive lanes to a monumental cathedral, admire the arty colonial quarter of Coyoacán or relax in the shady Chapultepec Park.
Explore more
Oaxaca
Visit Oaxaca, Mexico’s centre of culture with a long multi-layered history. Book with Journey Latin America.
Explore more
Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit
Situated on the curve of the Pacific coast’s Bahia de Banderas is the busy town of Puerto Vallarta, overlooked by jungle-clad mountains and flanked by dozens of golden sand beaches.
Explore more
Southern Pacific Coast
Landscapes here vary from white-sand surfer beaches and arid deserts to Mediterranean-style scrub and luxuriant forest.
Along this extensive coastline there are areas which are highly commercialised (Acapulco, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta). However, there are hotels and resorts with their own extensive grounds on less developed stretches of coast, especially around Manzanillo and Zihuatanejo. The Oaxaca shoreline around Huatulco and Puerto Escondido is particularly spectacular, with stretches of virgin beach.
Explore more
Yucatan Peninsula
Explore pretty colonial towns, soft white-sand beaches and sacred Mayan temples hidden in lush, tangled jungles
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Ben Line - Travel Consultant
Ben fell in love with Latin America on a six month backpacking trip from Colombia to Mexico in 1995. Since then he has explored most of South America, including living in Peru for a year. He is now Manager of the Tailor-made Department.
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Mary Anne Nelson - Travel Consultant
Born in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, Mary’s insider knowledge and dry sense of humour make her a highly valued member of the Tailor-made team.
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Lina Fuller - Travel Consultant
Lina's passion for the continent where she was born really took off when she moved to Córdoba to study, spending the holidays travelling between Argentina and her native Colombia.
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Hannah Donaldson - Travel Consultant
Having spent part of her childhood in Colombia and worked in Brazil and Costa Rica, Hannah's ties to Latin America run deep. Hannah is an invaluable part of our Group Tours team.
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Chris Rendell-Dunn - Travel Consultant
Anglo-Peruvian Chris grew up in Lima and spent much of his adult life in between London and Cusco as a tour leader, before settling permanently in our Sales team.
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Kathryn Rhodes - Travel Consultant
Kathryn backpacked across Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru before joining us. She has a degree in Philosophy and French and is a keen netball player.
