I will be giving out the best top 2 places that you can visit in mexico today. This is to help those who want to get an overview on what are the best places to have a vacation in Mexico. This post is also for those who are undecided on which part of Mexico they will visit. This is also for those who do not have time to go to all the interesting places in Mexico. At least these are my suggested places to enjoy the best destination and must see places in Mexico.
Top on my list is the Baja California. The place is popularly known for their beaches, diving, water sports, and whale watching. Popular vacation spots will be Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, and San Jose Del Cabo.
Second will be the mexican Rivera. The place is popularly known for its jungle escapes, quiet hideaways, romantic retreats, culture and arts, and of course its beaching along the pacific coasts.
These are my top 2 highly recommended a must see and must visit place in Mexico.
Wednesday, 11. November 2009
Only if you like tourist traps. I prefer the real mexico, but for my wife’s family, we go to places that have a touist area, like Mazatlan, which is also a mining and agricultural city, plus a transportation hub, or Merida, which is close enough to Cancun and the riviera and Mayan ruins, but also has manufacturing and (of course) agriculture and transportation. My mother lives in San Carlos, Sonora, which is a resort area/suburb of Guaymas. (Listed on the right; the web page calls it the “diamond of Sonora.” Zircon would be more accurate, but the rest of the article is pretty close, although the photos are taken at night for a reason. Also on the page are some daytime photos of San Carlos, which actually don’t do it justice, San Carlos has far more spectacular scenery. The designer could have picked much nicer pictures; also left out was some of the truly excellent fantasy architecture, the interesting fishing village, and the cozy old town.) Guaymas is a city of about 500,000 on the third best harbor on the west coast of North America (after Puget Sound and Golden Gate), where there are maquilladores (industrial parks), mining and agriculture, and of course, shipping and transport.
Places like this, where there are both tourism and the real economic drivers, are an excellent bargain, because the tourist areas know that if their prices are too ridiculous people can go a couple of miles and pay normal mexican prices My wife’s family insisted on going to Cancun one year, and we paid $2,000 per couple per week for lodging. Sure it was nice, sure it was beachfront, but in Mazatlan we paid about a quarter of that in the tourists Zona d’Oro for a beachfront hotel that was not quite as nice. I don’t know about you, but I don’t travel 5,000 miles to hang out in a hotel, no matter how wonderful. Although the beach sand in Cancun is amazing.
Also the prices are normal in a real city. In Cancun I needed a hat for the sun, but every store had an Indiana Jones fedora for 39 bucks. I talked with the owner of a small kiosk and he told me if he sold it to me for less, that the other store owners would beat him up. I asked him where he shopped, and he told me wal mart, where I got a hat for four dollars. In Merida I bought a straw Panama style hat for twenty dollars that would cost well over 100 in a nice men’s store in the US. I got it from the man who wove it in his shop, and probably overpaid him a bit for it, (he originally asked 30 but happily took 20, I could have probably talked him down a bit more, but so what.)
The real benefits come from mingling with the Mexican people, who are in my experience friendly and helpful. My Spanish isn’t fantastic–”sufficiente por mal”–but with the occasional reference to my Spanish/English dictionary, it works, and the experiences are deeply enjoyable in ways that conversing with a resort waiter are not.
Try Chihuahua City, or Guadalajara, or Puebla, or Veracruz, do the tourist thing for a while, but make the effort to get out into the real city. Take a couple of day trips. Get out of your comfort zone and try something you can tell your friends about.