Calma Guides
Where to go, where to eat and where to stay.
By destination, with names and what to order.
17 guides
Quintana Roo
Tulum
Three places share the name. Only one is in the photographs.
Reviewed · 9 min read
Sierra Sur, Mexico
Oaxaca
Markets that smell of mole, and streets built for walking.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Valley of Mexico
Mexico City
A city you cannot see in three days, and still cross on foot.
Reviewed · 11 min read
Riviera Nayarit
Sayulita
A surf town where everything happens three streets from the water.
Reviewed · 8 min read
Jalisco
Puerto Vallarta
A bay between the mountains and the sea, and Mexico's most established gay neighborhood.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Morelos
Cuernavaca
Ninety minutes from the capital, seventy degrees all year.
Reviewed · 7 min read
Guanajuato, the Bajío
San Miguel de Allende
The prettiest town in Mexico, and the one most aware of it.
Reviewed · 8 min read
Estado de México
Valle de Bravo
Pine forest, red tile roofs and a lake that is actually a reservoir.
Reviewed · 8 min read
Oaxaca coast
Zipolite
Mexico's only legal nude beach, and the one that asks for the most respect.
Reviewed · 8 min read
Pedernales, Dominican Republic
Bahía de las Águilas
The emptiest beach in the Caribbean, and not by accident.
Reviewed · 9 min read
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Five centuries inside the wall, and the city that matters outside it.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Bajío, Mexico
Guanajuato
The city that outgrew its ravine and put the traffic underneath.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Baja California, Mexico
Valle de Guadalupe
Dirt roads between vineyards, with five Michelin stars at the end of them.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Oaxaca coast, Mexico
Puerto Escondido
A surf town with a wave that kills, and three bays where you can actually swim.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Yucatán, Mexico
Mérida
A white-stone city with cenotes an hour away and cochinita at seven in the morning.
Reviewed · 11 min read
La Altagracia, Dominican Republic
Punta Cana
Built for the all-inclusive. The sand, by law, belongs to everyone.
Reviewed · 10 min read
Bolívar, Colombia
Cartagena
Inside the walls everything is for sale. The city is in Getsemaní and in Bazurto.
Reviewed · 11 min read
On the way
More of Mexico and the Caribbean, one at a time.
We write them in English rather than translating them, and we publish few — only once they've been checked on the ground.