#10 Practice your Nahautl language skills, learning to pronounce place names like Ixmiquilpan and Metztitlán. #9 Go beyond the guidebooks to visit locally known hot springs, archaeological sites, and shrines. #8 Make your parents and/or kids appreciate you; they’ll either be jealous, impressed, or terribly worried … due to all those headlines about scary Mexico. #7 Drink some goopy pulque with the locals. #6 Explore the road less traveled for an invigorating, natural high. #5 Practice defensive driving skills on well-tended highways and graded dirt roads. #4 Expand your Spanish-language skills away from the big resorts and cities where English flourishes. #3 Get super bargains in daily and weekly markets and restaurants. #2 Try exotic foods like ant larvae and grilled cactus pads. AND THE #1 REASON TO VISIT RURAL MEXICO: It’s fun!
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