♥ Mexico♥
Mexico is a country that fascinates visitors. Cultural influences from indigenous civilizations thousands of years old are not mixed, sometimes surprisingly enough, with the contributions made by Spanish settlers who began to flock to the country there are 500 years.These both groups produced a miscegenation, both cultural and racial, which is reflected in the faces and lifestyles of the majority of Mexicans. Any visitor will realize during his trip to the rich diversity of influences from ancient America, Europe and modern America that merge to create not only an authentic national culture, but also variations in characteristics each of the regions of this vast country.
Mexico City
Mexico, the center of government and commercial, financial, intellectual and artistic life of the country knows fascinate visitors with its many historic and cultural treasures.
Baja California
This sparsely populated region continues to resist and stand still highly prized for its totally secluded beaches and the crystal clear waters. This destination is now busy to practice fishing and diving. Extreme temperature variations can be recorded in 24 hours, this is why the region has escaped the economic growth seen elsewhere in the country. One of the attractions is the drop that made the gray whales in coastal lagoons, the only known breeding ground of these mammals.
Some resorts offer the atmosphere of seaside resorts.
Along the border, many industrial cities work for their rich neighbor to the south, as Tijuana, with its million inhabitants and its extraordinary human expansion of 5% per annum.
Northern Mexico
The North, one of the least populated areas of Mexico, has a very special character. This large arid region with deserts, plains and rugged mountains is marked by an isolated, as timeless atmosphere.
Do miss her big canyons that have nothing to envy their more famous in the United States.
The train from Chihuahua to Los Mochis is a wonderful invitation to discover gentle mountain.
Mazatlan on the Pacific Ocean beach resorts famous is famous for its beaches, deep sea fishing and its famous carnival to be one of the best in the world. Other resorts such as Sayulita or Bahia Kino, climate so pleasant, attract tourists on their pristine beaches.
The colonial center
Rich in colonial cities, including Guadalajara, the second largest city is also one of the richest colonial vestiges. Taxco offers the romantic image of the old Spain with its cobbled streets and red-tiled roofs. The city of Puebla with its many churches is called "the dress of Mexico."
The town of Tequila alcohol product of the same name from which the agave fields dotting the landscape.
Central Mexico, on the Pacific coast, brings together some of the most famous seaside resorts, including Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo and Acapulco course and spectacular bay.
Southern Mexico
Vast mountainous region still wild southern Mexico has something for the history buff. It has impressive ruins Amerindian, these tribes who inhabited the territory first, and colonial cities such as Oaxaca. This region can be alone for the purpose of a trip to Mexico.
the Yucatan
This territory whose shores are washed by the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Merida is the capital of the state of Yucatán and the largest city in the whole peninsula.
The area is rich in archaeological sites, the most important ruins are Chichen Itza.
The huge resort of Cancun is ideally located on an island in the clear, warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Tourism in Mexico is big business, both for Mexicans who choose to spend their holidays, and for foreigners who come to make a living. Mexico is a country of highlands enclosed between two mountain ranges (Sierra Madre Oriental and Western) which drop to the narrow coastal plains to the east and west. These two mountain ranges meet in the southeast of the country where they form the Sierra Madre south. Northwest, Baja California is a long and narrow peninsula which stretches 1.225 kilometers and extends the Sierra Nevada American.
Mexico has long been a country for foreign visitors. In fact, it is the eighth country in the world receiving international tourists, and in the fourteenth capture currencies. With these figures, tourism accounts for over 13.2% of Mexico's GDP (for comparison tourism in France represented the 6.6% of GDP in 2003, or half), it generates more than 5 million jobs. This sector has become one of the stimulators of economic and social development. Mexico, and particularly the regions of Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, is a major destination for nearly 25 years, starting mainly from Canada and the United States far behind European countries (in order the UK Spain, France and Germany 1).
