Travel Mexico in search of rustic furnishings, silver jewelry, traditional dresses or handmade glasswork and pottery — or make the quick hop across the Rio Grande to Nuevo Progreso and find it ...

Jessica’s also doubles as a dentist’s office, Hats for sale on the streets of Nuevo Progreso, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez). This shopping area is not big, but it is usually packed.

That formula is working. In only 11 years of promoting itself as a destination for medical tourism, Nuevo Progreso now ranks second in Mexico for that one-stop-shopping approach, Lilia said.