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Mexico has something for everyone: vast deserts to jungle, ancient
Mayan ruins to tropical Caribbean beaches, snow-capped volcanoes to
bustling modern cities. It's beautiful and diverse, with
breathtaking vistas you’ll never forget and numerous
cultures, cuisines, handicrafts, music and art forms. It's one of
the fastest developing industrial powers in the world: some of
Mexico’s cities are at the height of urban sophistication
while other parts of the country feel more like a traditional half
forgotten Spanish colony, with an all pervading influence of native
American culture.
Whether you like to dive along superb stretches of barrier reef,
lose yourself in jungle surrounding long-forgotten Mayan ruins,
surf the Mexican coastline or join the Day of the Dead
celebrations, you'll won't be short of things to do.
Crossing the border from the States takes you from the first to the third world. Along with dead dogs and potholed roads, as you’d expect in any country that’s still developing, things don’t always run like clockwork. While the bus network rivals the States in efficiency, elsewhere timetables shouldn’t always be trusted. The manana manana philosophy may be largely a gringo perspective on Mexico, but it’s true that the local temperament is much slower and that patience is absolutely vital. To have an easy journey, you’ll have to accept that in Mexico people work to live, and they don’t live to work. Prices (particularly in the Yucatan) aren't always as cheap as you might expect.
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