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Mexico
Mexico [1] is a country in North America, lying
between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala
and Belize to the southeast. Its extensive coastlines include
the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east and the
Pacific Ocean to the west. Mexico has nice and warm people,
unique food, art and archeology, pyramids, museums, Haciendas,
6,000 miles of shoreline, superb architecture and cities, weather
from snow mountains in the Sierras, to rainy jungles in the
Southeast and desert in the Northwest, more than 50 golf courses,
excellent fishing, world top destinations like Acapulco, Cancun,
Cozumel, Los Cabos, and Patzcuaro. Mexico is ranked 8th major
destination for foreigner visitors, according to WTO.
Regions
- Baja California - The western peninsula
- Northern Mexico - The expansive deserts
of the border states.
- The Bajio - historic states in a
traditional silver-mining region
- Central Mexico - center, surrounding
the capital city
- Pacific Coast - tropical beaches
on Mexico's southern coast
- Mexican Caribbean - or the State
of Quintana Roo, with wonderful beaches, jungle, sinkholes
and Mayan archaeological sites
- Yucatan Peninsula - Jungle and impressive
Mayan archaeological sites
Cities
Mexico has many touristy cities; these are nine of the most traveled:
- Mexico City - Country capital, one
of the largest cities in the world, find everything from parks,
aztec ruins, colonial architecture, museums, nightlife and
shopping.
- Acapulco - A beach destination in
the state of Guerrero, is renowned for its warm climate and
vibrant nightlife.
- Canc?n - In the southern state of
Quintana Roo, is famous for its turquoise color sea, warm
climate year round and world-class nightlife.
- Cabo San Lucas - Beach destination
in the Baja California peninsula, with a characteristic mediterranean
weather.
- Guanajuato - World Heritage Site
by UNESCO, a hilly colonial city home of cultural festivals.
- M?rida - Colonial city in the southern
state of Yucatan. Startpoint to visit the mayan world.
- Puebla - World Heritage Site by UNESCO,
colonial city famous for its cuisine and cultural sites
- Puerto Vallarta - In the state of
Jalisco, a favorite beach in the pacific for Americans.
- San Miguel de Allende - Located in
central Mexico in the state of Guanajuato, a hilly colonial
city home to thousands of foreigners.
Climate
Varies from desert-like regions on the northwest part of the country
(cities like Hermosillo, Ciudad Juarez, or Los Cabos); and temperate
in the northeastern part (cities like Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo,
Ciudad Acu?a), but note that much of the northern Mexican territory
gets very cold during the winter with average day time highs around
8C (39F) and 12C (59F), overnight lows avarage around -5C (24F)
and snow is sometimes frequent in certain northern places like
(Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and northern Tamaulipas)
but can also occur at higher altittudes in the temperate forests
in the central part of Mexico. Also, northern Mexico gets very
hot during the summer with sudden violent storms in the afternoon,
with heavy rain and hail, also an isolated tornado can occur with
these storms but rarely, and the temperatures during the day can
quickly exceed 39C (100F). The Bajio region is semiarid (cities
like Aguascalientes, Leon and Zacatecas); and temperate forests
in the central part of the country {Mexico City, Toluca}, and
tropical rain forests in the south and southeast regions like
(Chiapas, Cancun). During hurricane season, hurricanes are common
in the coastal cities specially those near the Caribbean Sea and
the Gulf of Mexico.
Landscape
High, rugged mountains; low coastal plains; high plateaus; temperate
plains with grasslands and Mezquite trees in the northeast, desertic
in the northwest, tropical rainforests in the south and southeast
{Chiapas, Cancun} semiarid in places like {Aguascalientes, San
Luis Potosi} and temperate coniferous and deciduous forests in
the central part of the country {Mexico City, Toluca}.
Talk
Spanish is the main language. You can get by with English in most
top tourist destinations, but much of the country is monolingual.
Mexico has one of the richest diversity of languages, more than
350 indigenous languages are spoken within the Mexico territory.
Mexican Spanish is slightly different from both
the Castilian Spanish spoken in most of Spain and the Spanish
spoken in South American countries. All three are mutually intelligible—it's
about the same as the differences in English spoken in various
countries—but you can expect some funny looks if you speak
only Castilian. (In particular, unlike Castilian, the z and the
soft c should be pronounced like an s.) Mexican Spanish is the
variant most often taught in the United States of America, so
if you learned Spanish there, you should be OK.
In some regions, native languages such as Mayan
or Nahuatl are still widely spoken.
There are Spanish languages schools throughout Mexico.
The city with the most schools is Cuernavaca, with more than 50
schools. Oaxaca, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato also offer
a number schools to choose from. Prices vary, however, most schools
are very reasonably priced. Many schools can arrange homestays
with local Mexican families.
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