About Mexico Vacation Travel
Mexico
is a traveller's paradise and a land of extreme diversity which
is crammed with a multitude of divergent cultures, desert landscapes,
awe-inspiring ancient cities and ruins, colonial towns and villages,
balmy tropical beaches, and modern glitzy resorts.
There are several hidden treasures just waiting to be explored
on your Mexican travel vacation throughout
Mexico from Ancient Aztec pyramids to authentic foods and fantastic
shopping.
This mixure of traditional old world rustic charm and modern flamboyant
ambiance is the key to Mexico's charm, whether your passion is throwing
back margaritas, surfing the Mexican Pipeline, scrambling over Mayan
ruins, relaxing on a sun drenched beach or working on your golf
game at a modern day resort. Mexico has
it all and is a natural vacation delight!
From the glitz and excitement of Cancun to
the seclusion of Los Cabos, visitors have a many options to choose
from when planning their vacations.
One look at this country is enough to remind visitors that there
is nothing new about the so-called New World.
Mexico's landscape and its people reflect the country's extraordinary
history which is part Indian and part Spanish. Mexican culture is
a fascinating blend of Native American traditions and Spanish colonial
influences. Despite the considerable colonial legacy and rampant
modernization, there are still over 50 distinct indigenous peoples,
each with their own language, maintaining vestiges of their traditional
lifestyles.
Long before the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, the indigenous
civilizations of Mexico had developed arts such as ceramics, music,
poetry, sculpture, and weaving. After the conquest, the intricate
designs and bright colors of many Native American arts were often
mixed with European techniques and religious themes to create a
hybrid and uniquely Mexican artistic style.
Ancient Mexico and Central America were home to some of the earliest
and most advanced civilizations in the western hemisphere.
This region is known historically as Mesoamerica, a term that refers
to the geographic area and cultural traditions of the pre-Columbian
civilizations of Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, and Nicaragua. Maya civilization flourished in southern
Mexico and Central America between AD 250 and 900, a time known
as the Classic period.
The Maya built large religious centers that included ball courts,
homes, and temples, and developed a method of hieroglyphic notation.
Chronology among the Maya was determined by an elaborate calendar
system. Although highly complex, this calendar was the most accurate
known to humans until the introduction of the Gregorian calendar
in the 16th century.
After the Spanish colonial conquest of Mexico numerous churches
were constructed during the colonial era which reflect the blending
of Spanish architectural designs with the handiwork of Native American
workers who built and decorated the buildings. Many of Mexico's
most popular modern crafts-such as textiles, pottery, and furniture
making-borrow designs and techniques from Native American culture.
Mexican painting and music have also been shaped by this heritage.
Mexico has produced numerous writers, essayists, and poets of international
renown, including Octavio Paz, who in 1990 became the first Mexican
to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Carlos Fuentes is another
Mexican writer whose fiction is widely read in Europe and the United
States. He often writes about social issues in contemporary Mexico,
but his best-known work deals with the decades that followed the
Mexican Revolution.
Mexican arts, with the exception of folk arts, generally followed
European patterns during the colonial period and the 19th century.
The Mexican Revolution was instrumental in fostering a new sense
of nationalism and experimentation. Mexican popular music, in the
form of ballads and sidewalk performances, has contributed significantly
to popular music in the United States. Examples include "La
Bamba," a Mexican folk song that was recorded in a rock-and-roll
style by American singer Ritchie Valens in 1959, and the work of
the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s and 1970s.
The bursting industrial megalopolis of Mexico City is a one-hour
flight from the resource-rich southern state of Chiapas, where Indian
insurgents recurrently tangle with the ruling party's paramilitary
forces. Up along the northern border, Mexico's disorienting tumult
of heritages merge with the air-conditioned cultures of California,
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
We hope that you will take advantage of
our affordable all inclusive Mexico travel vacation deals to explore
Mexico on your next vacation!
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