Expat Insider 

Little-Known Seaside Campeche Booms

Recently an IL reader who planned to visit Campeche, Mexico, where I live, wrote to say that she was changing her travel dates because she couldn’t find a hotel room—all the hotels she’d called were booked up. Exasperated she concluded, “Campeche must be on the map now.” Wow, is it ever. This Sleeping Beauty on the Gulf of Mexico, one of the prettiest and safest cities in the country, was off the radar for years…even though it’s just 100 miles south of Mérida, in the Yucatán Peninsula.