Acapulco is Mexico’s premier beach resort on the Mexican Riviera, and has hundreds of thousands of international tourists every year, so when violence erupted on 8-9 January  2011 there was a fear that tourism would be affected.

The state of Chihuahua in Mexico has opened the world’s third largest cable car in Copper Canyon’s Adventure Park. Visitors can see the canyon from the cable car seat or zip-line across, flying above this amazing natural wonder. This is the longest zip line in Mexico at 2750m.

The Mexican Government has issued a hurricane warning as Hurricane Karl upgraded to a Category 3 is predicted to affect a 180 miles stretch of coast from Veracruz to Cabo Rojo and tropical storm warnings for the coast between Veracruz and Punta el Lagarto.