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Radishes are lovingly sculpted into everything from animals to saints and nativity scenes at Oaxaca's curious annual Radish Festival. The Zócalo fills with stalls, music, traditional dancing…
What with cat-chasing, unmarried fornication and keeping neighbours up at night, can you be sure that Rex will be going to doggie heaven?
Every year Catemaco hosts the Annual Witch Gathering (Congreso de Brujos) on the first Friday in March, when healers and witch doctors converge on the town to ply their trade.
Xochimilco Festival of the Prettiest Flower
Xochimilco's Festival of the Prettiest Flower (La Flor Mas Bella), is a beautiful and colourful event that honours the goddesses of flowers and dance in order to ensure a good harvest.
Easter in San Miguel de Allende
The Holy Week celebrations in the beautifully-preserved colonial town of San Miguel de Allende involve processions of Roman centurions, the blowing up of a papier-maché Judas and a dramatic…
A random combination it may be, but the town of Ensenada in Guadalupe Valley hosts a popular Horse, Arts and Wine Festival every year. Just make sure you enjoy the wine after the horse riding…
Unsweetened chocolate, chillies, onions, tomatoes, garlic, coriander, cinnamon and many other ingredients are ground up and slow-cooked into a rich tar-coloured sauce. Add meat and you have…
Mexico's famous commemoration of the dead - el día de los muertos - is both a joyous and touching celebration. In Oaxaca, the people remember their ancestors by decorating the cemeteries…
Gawp in horror at over 100 mummies in the Guanajuato Museum of Mummies, that first began its collection in 1865 and highlights the Mexican obsession with death. Unusual amounts of lime and…
