Guadalajara is Mexico's second largest city and has plenty to offer in the way of museums, shopping and colonial architecture.
Oaxaca City is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in southern Mexico with rich cultural traditions, colorful festivals, and fascinating history.
Forget the gravy. The correct topping for turkey is mole (pronounced "mo-lay"). But if you're not ready to change your traditional Thanksgiving dinner, you can give it a try with your leftover turkey. There are many different types of mole, and many variations on recipes. Here's one from About.com's Guide to Mexican Food: Traditional Mole.
Mexico City's winter festivities the past few years have been pretty spectacular, but this year's celebrations promise to be even more so. In a recent press conference, Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced that this year's
"La Magia de Navidad" (The Magic of Christmas) festival will take place from December 5, 2009 to January 9, 2010, and will include the tallest Christmas tree in the world, and not one, but two skating rinks in the Zocalo, as well as traditional Mexican Christmas celebrations such as posadas, pinatas and pastorelas. One of the main events planned as part of this year's Christmas celebration in Mexico City is a free concert by famed tenor Placido Domingo. Billed as the Concierto del Angel, the concert will take place on December 19 at the Angel of Independence monument on the Paseo de la Reforma.
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Photo of last year's Christmas tree by Gary Denness, licensed under Creative Commons
When the weather starts turning cold up north, those smart Monarch butterflies begin to head south for the winter. In a space of a few months the monarchs fly over 1500 miles to return to their overwintering grounds in the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico. The Monarch butterflies begin arriving in Mexico around the Day of the Dead, but January and February are the best months for visiting butterfly reserves, when you can experience being surrounded by these colorful creatures and have them fluttering around you. A trip to the monarch butterfly reserves is an amazing experience.
This year's monarch migration is lower than in past years due to the drought in Texas in the spring, and cold, wet weather in the northern United States over the summer, but there will still be plenty of monarchs for those who plan to visit them in Mexico this winter.
Read more about the amazing monarch butterfly, and about visiting Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Reserves.
Photo by Suzanne Barbezat
This week marks the 99th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and there's a big celebration in store next year, when besides being 100 years since the Revolution, it will also mark the bicentennial of Mexican independence. Read more about Mexico's 2010 Bicentennial Celebrations.
The Monumento a la Revolución is located in Mexico City in the Colonia Tabacalera. The monument was built between 1932 and 1938 using the foundation of what was to be a legislative palace under president Porfirio Diaz, who was deposed during the revolution. The remains of some of the important leaders of the Mexican Revolution are contained in crypts in the four columns of the monument, including Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas. A museum dedicated to the Mexican Revolution is located beneath the monument.
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