07/09/2026
A holiday to Mexico can take many different forms due its immense diversity of verdant jungles, aquamarine waters, colonial alleys and ancient pyramids so how about a little intro to some of the possibilities 🇲🇽
🎶 The Soul of the Capital – Mexico City & Ancient Beginnings
A hub for cobblestone plazas, grand cathedrals and modern art, with Teotihuacan nearby. For an authentic experience, you could visit a family cooperative to learn about traditional uses of obsidian, maguey fibre, and pulque. In October, the Day of the Dead, Dia de las Mu***os, parade rolls through with music, alters, candlelight, and the vibrant dance of life and death
✨ Colonial Charms & Artisan Magic – San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato
San Miguel de Allende: a kaleidoscope of pink spires, colonial courtyards and cobbled streets, and a beautiful place to experience making traditional crafts or relaxing under a warm desert sky. Meanwhile, in the hills, Guanajuato is a city built on the wealth of mined silver, now alive with pastel-coloured houses
🍯Culture & Spirit – Guadalajara, Agave Fields, & Indigenous Mexico
Guadalajara, a city whose plazas hum with life and history and nights explode with sound: strings, horns, dancers, laughter. Lowlands lined with agave unfold around the town of Tequila – step into a distillery, breath in the scent of roasting pinas, watch tequila being born, and then savour its flavours with a tasting. In the highlands and mountains, you can meet people living traditional lives: small farms in the Sierra Norte Mountains and enjoy a home-cooked meal
🌈 Ruins, Rainforest & Waterfalls – From Canyon to Cenote
Nestled amongst verdant jungle, Sumidero Canyon looms: towering limestone walls rising over 1,000 metres above the river and you might glimpse crocodiles basking and spider monkeys darting through the canopy. The lowlands of the Maya bring the timeless green of forest and ruin and Palenque National Park brings howler monkeys’ calls and the slow unveiling of ancient temples
🏝️ Across Ancient Kingdoms to the Caribbean Coast
The wide savannahs of Tabasco lead you to the pastel-hued splendour of San Francisco de Campeche with its UNESCO-listed walls, coral-stone ramparts and restored mansions. Then it's inland to Uxmal and the Pyramid of the Magician, on to Merida, a city alive with markets brimming with colour, fragrant food stalls and elegant 19th-century boulevards, and not far to UNESCO World Heritage Site Chichen Itza. From here, the Caribbean beckons, the beaches of Playa del Carmen and the cool, crystalline embrace of Cenote Azul
Wendy Wu
