Mexico Travel Guide

As befits Mexico’s most popular tourist destination, Los Cabos boasts plenty of world-class fine dining establishments, as well as hundreds of hole-in-the-wall taquerías. However, one of the complaints most often heard from transplanted Mexicans is that the area lacks the “real,” traditional food so readily found on the country’s mainland. In fact, there is some great regional Mexican cuisine (dishes representing many of... Read More

While walking along the shores of the Caribbean Sea, there are no bad views. | Photo by Susan R. Vincil Surrounded by water and filled with beautiful, white-sand beaches, Cancun’s hotel zone has no shortage of romantic views. Many hotels have rooms with and ocean view or rooms that are oceanfront. From those accommodations, you are guaranteed to have stunning views of the Caribbean Sea (or Mujeres Bay, if your hotel is on the northern strip of the... Read More

Intense cobalt blue saturates the walls of Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico City’s Coyoacan neighborhood. She wrote in her diary that the color represented electricity, purity, and love, and fans of the artist will recognize this same deep azure tone from her idiosyncratic oil paintings. This particular color so entranced Frida that she named the home where she was born, lived, and died “La Casa Azul” – The Blue House in Spanish. She believed that cobalt blue... Read More