• Mexico Guide

  • Introduction to Mexico
  • Weather
  • Things not to miss
  • Getting around
  • Entry requirements
  • Money
  • Public holidays

• Explore Mexico

  • Baja California and the Pacific Northwest
  • The north
  • The Bajío
  • Northern Jalisco and Michoacán
  • Mexico City
  • Acapulco and the Pacific beaches
  • Veracruz
  • Oaxaca
  • Chiapas and Tabasco
  • The Yucatán

• Cities

  • Acapulco
    
  • Cancún
    
  • Guadalajara
    
  • Mexico City
    
  • Monterrey
    
  • Oaxaca
    

Mexico Guide

The Bajío

Aguascalientes

• Accommodation
• Eating

The lively industrial town of AGUASCALIENTES, 100km south of Zacatecas, is an important and booming provincial capital with some fine colonial monuments in among its newer buildings. A couple of excellent museums, in addition, make this a good place to stop over for a day or two, especially when you take into account the town's reputation for some of the finest fiestas in Mexico – rarely a week goes by without celebration, or at least a band playing in one of the plazas at the weekend – and for the manufacture of excellent wines and brandy.