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Mexico in general

Mexico is an experience on its own.
You can find everything: miles of beaches, deserted deserts and impenetrable jungles until mountain ranges with white peaks.
What you find most is color, smell and music, which you will carry the rest of your live with you.


The Mexicans themselves with their rich history of the Aztecs and Mayas are the reason why you will never forget a visit to this country.
It is not only the warmth of the sun you feel when to exit your plane, but it’s more the warmth of the people which you will feel always and everywhere.
Mexico has the size of 1.958.201 km2. The border with the USA on the north side is 3.326 km of length.


In the south Mexico shares its borders with Guatemala and Belize.
The official language is Spanish. This Mexican Spanish knows some grammatical differences from the Castilian.
The reason for this lies in the English influences from the north and the words in Náhuatl, the language of the Aztecs. Náhuatl is after Spanish the biggest language group and is spoken by over a million descendants from the Aztecs.
Over 500.000 Mayas speak the Mayan language or a related language of the Mayan culture.
The fourth language spoken in the country is the language of the Zapotec Indians.
You can handle yourself with English in almost corner of the country.
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Divers Health

divers healthMontezuma's Revenge is the most frequently known illness with tourists.
Due to the time-differences, change of climate and different food it is sometimes only a matter of time before diarrhoea comes up.
Sometimes it's accompanied with fever.
To prevent this follow these rules:

  • Wash your hands before eating and after using the bathroom.
  • Don't eat food sold on the streets.
  • Avoid drinking too much alcohol, which shouldn't be a big deal when you are diving.
  • Drink only mineralwater from a bottle.
  • Don't eat uncooked vedgetables.
 
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Should I have Insurance in Mexico

Make sure that you don't travel without an insurance! Dive Choice Mexico can help you on this subject.
 
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Cozumel weather

There really is not a bad time of year to visit Cozumel, both in terms of weather and in terms of activities going on throughout the year.  We dive the whole year! The popular tourist season in Cozumel is generally considered to be from December through March.  The main reason that this is the season most enjoyed by tourists is that they can escape cold temperatures in other parts of the world and enjoy the warmth of Cozumel, which averages seventy degrees at night and eighty five degrees during the day.

The hottest month is August which averages eighty degrees at night and ninety five degrees during the day. The heat is offset by the ocean breezes and is generally comfortable for most people. 
The rainy season in Cozumel starts in late summer or early fall. 

 
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Food and beverage

chiles-en-nogadas

The Mexican food is a variety of new tastes and ingredients.
In every region you will find traditional dishes.
The Mexican cuisine uses mais as a basic ingredient.
They make tortillas, tostadas and tacos from mais, which will be stuffed with a lot of different ingredients and of course a lot of chile!
 
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Visa & passports

visa and passport

Most European counties and all the countries in the European Union don't need a special visum to Mexico when they are travelling as a tourist.


You do need a passport still valid 6 months after returning from Mexico and you can't stay longer than 6 months in the country.
 
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Current currency in Mexico

mexican pesos

The Mexican coin is the peso. You can recognise it from the dollarsign with only 1 vertical line through the S. Paper money exists in bills of 500, 200, 100, 50 & 20. Coins exist in coins of 10, 5, 2 en 1 peso.

In the big cities and at the airports you can find ATM's and all mayor creditcards are accepted.

Travellercheques are welcome at almost every shop, especially American Express.

At the moment the only foreign currency banks will accept is the American dollar. The Euro gets more and more accepted by the year, but we still advise you to take small dollarbills with when you go to Mexico. Especially when you visit rural areas, because sometimes it can be a hassle to cheques and creditcards.
 
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Population in Mexico

population in Mexico

Mexico has 104 million of inhabitants. About 25 million of them live in Mexico City.
About 5 million Mexicans live illegal in the USA.

In Mexico about 89% of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic, 6% are Protestant and 5% remaining.

The Mexican population can be divided in 2 groups: Mestizos and Indians.
The mestizos are the biggest group with a mixed background of mainly Indian background mixed with European backgrounds, mostly from Spanish origin.
The Indians are decendants of their prehispanische ancestors, like the Nahautl; the decendants of the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Zapotecs, the Huichol and the Nayarit. This group consists of a minority of 10 milion Indians.
In Yucatàn you still see many Indians with their typical traditional costums.