Everything you need to know before your first visit to Guadalajara.

Mexico has warmly welcomed me for several years, and I usually find myself along the coasts. The likes of Bacalar’s shapeshifting, colorful lagoon, cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula, and the biscuit-soft white sands of Isla Holbox are my typical haunts. But I had zero regrets after deciding to travel inland to Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city and the capital of Jalisco state.

This region is where much of what the world imagines when it imagines Mexico was born, be it tequila, mariachi, the wide-brimmed sombrero, or the Jarabe Tapatío song, so I had to come to enrich my Mexico education.

When I first visited, the streets were strewn with purple jacaranda petals, and I fell hook, line, and sinker. Guadalajara

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