Day of the Dead

Mexico - November 1 and November 2 - 2 days

It's not every day you get to party with the dead, but on the first two days in November, all of Mexico does just that, as everything stops for the most

Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin

Huamantla, Mexico - August - 2 weeks

Pamplona's famous Fiesta de San Fermín is actually for wimps. Real men take part in a far more lethal version in the colonial Mexican city of Huamantla, a hundred miles' bumpy

Mazatlan Carnival

Mazatlan, Mexico - February - 5 days

The five crazy days of Carnival in Mazatlán is the time to see the city at its very best - and worst - when this usually bustling fishing port and low-key

San Marcos National Fair

Aguascalientes, Mexico - April - 3 weeks

Mexico's oldest fair, the Feria Nacional de San Marcos (www.feriadesanmarcos.com), pulls in thousands of revellers for three weeks of genial mayhem in the heartland town of Aguascalientes, particularly in