Mexico Tips & articles

Tips & articles

  1. Best-value destinations for 2010

    20 November 2009

    Looking for the latest buck-stretching destinations? We’ve got the pick of them, fresh from Lonely...

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  2. Ranchería ruins

    19 November 2009

    Dominic Bonuccelli travelled to Mexico on assignment for Lonely Planet. You can follow his adventures...

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  3. Tribal Easter: Rarámuri Semana Santa

    06 November 2009

    Dominic travelled to Mexico on assignment for Lonely Planet. You can follow his adventures on Lonely...

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  4. Face off at Basaseachi National Park

    05 November 2009

    There are so few truly wild places left it’s easy to feel the world is mapped, conquered, predictable....

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  5. Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled Mexico itinerary

    05 November 2009

    Mexico’s Sierra Madre is off the edge of the map: it’s the wild west, a drug-war ground zero,...

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  6. Coleadero: steer wrangling in Chihuahua

    05 November 2009

    Northern Mexico is cowboy country, sanctuary to bandits and revolutionaries alike; and Chihuahua is its...

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  7. Graveyard goodtimes: the world’s best cemeteries

    29 October 2009

    With Halloween and Day of the Dead fast approaching, it’s only natural that our thoughts turn to...

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  8. Tell us your tale of the unexpected

    17 October 2009

    Ever found a Picasso in a flea market in Paris? Been lost in Lisbon? Ripped off in Rome? Romanced in...

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  9. Cities you really hate

    09 October 2009

    A couple of weeks ago, we published a list of your ‘least favourite’ destinations. Reaction...

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  10. Fancy a dance with the dead?

    06 October 2009

    A visit to Mexico at the beginning of November will afford an unsuspecting visitor a startling sight:...

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  11. Weirdo a go-go: the world’s strangest festivals

    01 October 2009

    Forget Glastonbury & head instead to one of the world’s more unusual festivals – far more exciting...

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  12. Mexico’s most blissful beaches

    14 September 2009

    When people think Mexico, many see golden sand, blue water and green palms. Hundreds of beaches fit this...

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  13. Creative nation: Mexico’s artistic genius

    14 September 2009

    Ever since pre-Hispanic times, the Mexican people have shown an innate talent for artistic representation...

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  14. Floating life: cruising Mexico City’s canals

    04 August 2009

    Picture this: you’re floating down a network of green canals in a colorful, open air trajinera...

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  15. Travel on a shoestring

    23 July 2009

    It takes more than hard times to keep a healthy wanderlust down, and our travel community is full of...

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  16. The Riviera Maya on a shoestring

    15 July 2009

    It may seem like the resort-studded tropical coastline of Mexico’s Riviera Maya might be out of...

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