2024-12-14

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Search for Mexico travel ideas on the internet and you’ll feel like you are drinking from a fire hose. Some 40 million people visit the country in a year and half them seemed to have posted advice on social media or written articles about the country. Then you’ve got a million or so expats and snowbirds who are living in Mexico like I am and are sharing their life experience. (Find this blog’s Mexico articles here.)

websites for traveling in Mexico

I’ve sifted through most of the Mexico travel websites at one time or another since I first started traveling to the country in 2002. At one point I wrote a whole long chapter with traveler advice in the book Traveler’s Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America. Alas, that book is now out of print.

Here’s a fairly comprehensive set of useful Mexico travel websites though, ones that will set you up with info and keep you posted on what’s going on in the Mexican news as well. It was updated in December of 2023. 

For news, the best resource in English is Mexico News Daily. You can only read a certain number of articles a month unless you pay for a subscription, but it’s quite reasonable if you really need to dive into the archives. Sign up for their free newsletter to get the headlines a couple times a week.

The official Mexico tourism site is www.visitmexico.com, with links to official sites for state and city tourism organizations. I’m not sure how well this is being maintained now though since the government dissolved their whole tourism board and cut funding for promotion. (Remove gun from holster, aim at foot, fire.)

living in Mexico

I’ve been on the Latin Life podcast before and the host Vance maintains a site with a lot of good city guides from Mexico. 

Moving to Mexico? Try Mexperience. It’s one of the few on this list that has a website design that is easy on the eyes and the search function works pretty well. It has a tremendous number of articles that will answer most any question you may have, written by people who know what they’re talking about.

Mexico Connect (www.mexconnect.com) has been online since 1996 but looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2021. It is probably the most thorough resource on the Internet for info about traveling or living in Mexico though, with a lot of evergreen content that goes much deeper than most. 

Mexico Mike was one of the first web guides to the country but as with Mexconnect, I’m not sure it’s still being regularly maintained. There’s is a real about page and some social media links, plus the site is easier to get around than it used to be so Mike has made some improvements at least. It has some good articles on traveling in Mexico and living there as an expat, with more than you’ll find elsewhere about overland border crossings.

traveling in Mexico - Copper Canyons

If you suddenly get rich or someone else is paying, check out the high-end tour stories and upscale hotels at Luxury Latin America Mexico.

These will all lead you to a hundred other links to keep you occupied for weeks. Each individual city or state has its own batch of English websites, some sucky, some great, so you have to nose around a bit.

The more foreigners there are traveling and living there, the more likely you are to find good Mexico travel websites in English. There are at least four useful ones for the Merida area alone, for example:

Yucatan Today
Yucatan Living
Yucatan Travel (government site in English)

For any other city, your best bet is to find a site maintained by someone who lives there rather than sifting through 20 listicles with similar titles and entries, all claiming to be “the ultimate guide” or some silliness like that. The other good strategy is to look for Facebook groups for that city. Even ones with just a few hundred English speakers (like mine) will have several to choose from. 

Have a useful Mexico website you’ve bookmarked and used? Add it to the comments below!

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