SURVIVAL GUIDE

Enrique Pérez Diego

Rojas Cortes Adan
 Things you must or you need to do in Mexico.
• Eating with the hand, almost always Mexicans eat with our hands, some tacos, a piece of chicken, so
when you are with Mexicans eat with your hands.
• You must start eating spicy, in Mexico the spicy is sacred, if you can get used to it would be very good
for a Mexican.
• If you stayed to live in Mexico, you need to make a concrete house, it is preferable a house of that
type here, by the territory.
• In Mexico it is very normal for you to greet someone without knowing them, show respect and
kindness.
• To make it a good stay here in Mexico, you must go to a Mexican party, because they are very
different from the other cultures, absolutely.
• If or if you need to go to Mexico City, it is very beautiful, has European, Mexican, American designs
etc., very good place to go.
• If you are in a time when something is celebrated, you need to go, I recommend day of the dead,
there are many places like Oaxaca, in which there is a lot of representation of that tradition.
• Always give thanks for everything, here it is very common to say thank you.
 Things you mustn’t do in Mexico.
• If you plan to travel to Mexico, you mustn’t travel in places with few people or that are not within
your tourist plan since in almost the entire country as well as there are beautiful places there are also
very unsafe places
• When you come to Mexico if you plan to visit areas where tourism is not as common as some cities
or towns, you mustn’t do it without a translator or if you do not know the language, not only because
of Spanish but also because of indigenous languages
• You mustn’t take the Mexican language very literally since in the Mexican country it can mean more
than 4 different things
• You mustn’t have a closed mind about food since there are places where exotic dishes are served
and what is said that everything is spicy is true
• As in any place that you do not know, you mustn’t come without a tourist plan or a guide since
places are not usually very intuitive to explore, especially cities, towns, etc. and getting lost is very
• You mustn’t come without a reservation for a place to stay since Mexico is one of the countries with
the most tourism in the world and during vacation times the occupancy reaches 99%
• You don’t need to dress or act in any specific way in most places, since the culture of Mexico is quite
open about this, just don't be rude.
• You mustn’t think that tourism in Mexico is a bad option since this is a megadiverse country full of
very beautiful natural sites and its cities are full of history and interesting places to visit, in addition to
all the culture that characterizes the country.