Mexico Travel Guide 2026: Mexico City, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá, Tulum, Cancún, Oaxaca and Pacific Coast
Browse more guides: Mexico travel | North America destinations Mexico Travel Guide 2026: Mexico City, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá, Tulum, Cancún, Oaxaca and Pacific Coast TL;DR I have walked Mexico from the Zócalo's flagstones to Palenque's jungle stairways across multiple trips, and I keep coming back because no other country on earth packs Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Aztec and Spanish-colonial layers into a single itinerary at this price point. For 2026 my recommended route is Mexico City for five nights, then a flight or Tren Maya ride east to Mérida, Chichén Itzá, Valladolid and Tulum, and finally Oaxaca for mezcal, Monte Albán and the Día de Muertos rituals that UNESCO inscribed on its Intangible Heritage list in 2008. If you have two weeks I add Palenque and San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, or swing west to Puerto Escondido on the Pacific. The peso has weakened against the dollar through 2025 and into early 2026, so this is the cheapest Mexico has felt to me since ...