MEXICO

MEXICO

Bairdstravel while backpacking in the USA crossed the border down Mexico way to the border town of Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city of the Mexican state of Baja California, situated on the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to its sister city of San Diego, California. Tijuana is the westernmost city in Mexico, however, the westernmost population center is located in Isla Guadalupe. As a frontier city, it suffers from a number of development issues most notably crime and lack of municipal services, but still continues to be a important educationally and culturally, and displays significant economic vitality, as the most dominant regional center in northwestern Mexico.

Here are some of my fellow travellers holidays in Mexico

HOLLY AND JONATHAN IN MEXICO

Welcome to Holly and Jonathan Mexico trip . The newly wed couple headed to Riviera Maya . They stayed at Grand Sirenis complex.

The all-inclusive Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya 5 star luxe a is the first of a 3 hotel complex, situated on the Mayan Riviera, just 20 miles from Playa del Carmen, and 1 hour from the airport at Cancun. The property has several Mayan Ruins, huge “cenotes” and 2 natural wonders, together with 5 virgin beaches up to 3.000 ft extension, making the location one of the best on the resort.

Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 400 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of Quintana Roo, Mexico. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum, although the towns of Puerto Morelos situated to the north and between Playa del Carmen and Cancun as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto situated 40 km to the south of Tulum are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor. The Riviera Maya was originally called the Cancun - Tulum corridor, but in 1999 it was renamed as the Riviera Maya with the aid of Lic. Miguel Ramón Martín Azueta who at the time was the mayor of the municipality of Solidaridad. The municipality of Solidaridad includes the whole of the official Riviera Maya from Playa del Carmen in the north and south to Tulum and extending to some 40 km inland with the border with the state of Yucatan.

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Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta is one of our favorite places in all of Mexico. Living in Southern California and owning timeshare weeks in a number of towns on the Mexican Riviera - and loving cruises - we go down there a lot.
We were in Mexico five times last year, and will visit the country three times in 2008. We've taken more than a dozen cruises down the Mexican Riviera in the past 35 years, each including a day in Puerto Vallarta. And we've probably enjoyed our timeshares a week at a time in PV six or eight times as well.
There are a lot of day excursions available here - a city tour, cultural tours, trips into the jungle, boat trips to Yelapa beach to the south and Nuevo Vallarta to the north. But our favorite day in PV is spent just walking around town, mainly on the ocean front.
The Spanish word for 'ocean front' is malecon. But when most of us use the word, we're talking about The Malecon in Puerto Vallarta, a mile of beach front on Bandaras Bay, the largest bay in all of Mexico.


Just a block up from the Malecon is the most famous landmark in Puerto Vallarta, the church of Our Lady of Guadelupe with the very distinctive crown on top.


                                          Very spectacular!


Lots of applause. Then the hat is passed around, and a few of us give them some pesos. And sometimes some will buy one of these flutes.
With the Pyramid in the backround, this vendor strikes a dramatic poseThe Ruined City of Teotihuacan
by Bob Fairbanks

The largest pyramid in the world is just twenty miles from Mexico City. It dominates the ruined city of Teotihuacan which was one of the largest cities in the world in 600 AD. Its population may have been as high as 200,000 .
'Teotihuacan' means 'The Place Where Gods Were Made'. Aztecs inhabited this religious place from 100 BC and mysteriously abandoned it 800 years later.
This was a planned city and is considered to be the first great urban experiment in the New World. It dominated the region near today's Mexico City for more than 500 years.
Anyone in the Mexico City area should take a few hours to visit this monumental city with its two world famous pyramids, many temples and hundreds of murals.
By the way, the Giza Pyramid in Egypt is taller, but the Pyramid of the Sun we were about to visit in Teotihuacan has more mass. And it's second only to Giza in height.

Dressed in Mexican hat and serape, he pointed out the various kinds of cactus found in this country.

The largest pyramid in the world. The original was completed around 100 AD, without the aid of the wheel or metal tools or beasts of burden. We can only wonder how many men and how many years it took to build it.

The warriors may have been sacrificed because they didn't follow the signs and dared to touch the sacred feathered serpent ...

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Puerto Vallarta

With the Pyramid in the backround, this vendor strikes a dramatic poseThe Ruined City of Teotihuacan