Travel Dispatch: Mexican Destinations to Seek the Heat This Winter
Plus: How to spend 36 hours in Mexico City.
Travel Dispatch

January 22, 2025

The comforting glow of the holiday lights is a fading memory. Spring feels far away. Maybe the warm escape you’re dreaming of is in Mexico, where you could dive with whale sharks in La Paz, hang out at a modernist artist’s retreat in Puerto Escondido or crack into crab claws and a cerveza on the beach in Mérida.

Another option: Follow the heat on your own delicious chile pilgrimage across the states of Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca.

Clear turquoise seawater meets a desert-like shoreline covered in cactus.

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Swim with whale sharks in La Paz

A stone monument with steps leading up to a statue with many stylized figures in a totem-pole-like structure.

Chill out in artsy Mérida

The hands of the Mexican cook Martha Soledad Gómez Atzin mashing a green paste in a dark stone bowl. On a table next to the bowl there are smaller bowls full of ingredients, and those bowls, along with several types of red and green chiles, are sitting on long green leaves spread on the table.

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Seek the heat on a chile pilgrimage across three Mexican states

An aerial view of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with a gold and orange dome and a facade in the Art Nouveau style. People mill around the front entrance, around manicured gardens.

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Spend a weekend falling in love with Mexico City

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Explore towns along Oaxaca’s wild Pacific coast

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