A nation of extraordinary ancient civilisations, baroque colonial grandeur, Caribbean turquoise coastlines, and a culinary culture so deeply complex and regionally diverse that UNESCO has recognised it as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity — where the Mayan civilisation’s most magnificent surviving monument rises from the Yucatán jungle in a testament to astronomical genius, the cobblestone colonial streets of Oaxaca and San Miguel de Allende glow with a beauty of Spanish baroque architecture softened by centuries of Mexican artistic interpretation, and the Riviera Maya’s turquoise Caribbean waters lap against white powder beaches of extraordinary beauty beneath a sky of permanent tropical blue.