Mexico Complete Guide 2026: Chichen Itza, Tulum, Mexico City, Oaxaca and the Yucatan Maya Train
Browse more guides: Mexico travel | North America destinations Mexico Complete Guide 2026: Chichen Itza, Tulum, Mexico City, Oaxaca and the Yucatan Maya Train TL;DR Mexico is the trip I tell friends to take when they want big civilizational history, beach colour, and food obsession packed into one country that runs on warm afternoons and long dinners. On my last visit I climbed nothing (climbing has been banned on most pyramids since 2008), stared at the equinox shadow snake slithering down El Castillo at Chichen Itza, swam inside a cenote lit only by a sunbeam shaft, walked across the Zócalo in Mexico City at sunrise when the cathedral bells were the only sound, and ate mole negro in Oaxaca that tasted like chocolate, chillies, and incense at the same time. Mexico does not ask you to choose between ruins and reefs, between mountains and markets. You get the lot, sometimes in the same day. The country runs from desert canyons in the north to jungle Maya cities in the south, with ...