Elisabeth Malkin is a journalist who has lived in Mexico for three decades and visits Oaxaca as often as she ... and the soft sand and palm trees seem to have no end. Finding the Best Travel ...

I first saw Oaxaca ... Mexico City, we crested the highway in the mountains above town. I peered out, surprised to see the weird shapes of the organ pipe cactus and elephant’s foot palms in ...

In the hills outside the city center of Oaxaca, you might as well be in Tuscany or Portugal, with the skinny palms and tall cypress ... the most walkable cities in Mexico, but if you stray ...

Just 20 minutes after checking in to my room at Otro Oaxaca ... Mexico’s much-lauded boutique hotel firm Grupo Habita, I pour a mezcal, neat, and head for the terrace. Traversing the reclaimed ...

Paola Cruz and her nephew, Nicolas Sanches Gallardo, made a deal when they were kids playing in the hills of Oaxaca, Mexico ... acai berries from a drooping palm leaf. “Here in Oaxaca, the ...