Skip Tulum This Winter and Travel to Belize Instead
If you’re experiencing Cancún and Tulum fatigue just about now, take a southbound turn down the Yucatán coast to Belize. Mexico’s sparsely-populated, majority English-speaking southern neighbor has been a low key tourists’ gem for some time—filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who owns a holiday home there, is one well-known fan—offering a colorful hybrid of Latin and Caribbean cultures set against a backdrop of deep blue water and wild tropical foliage.
Despite a lack of large hotel chains and sprawling resorts, Belize is one of the easiest countries to travel through. That’s in part thanks to the famously hospitable Belizean people, but also the close proximity of its cities—connected through a network of small planes operated by just two local airlines, Maya Island Air and Tropic Air.