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Mexico #6: Back Roads
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 31 January 2011
I love that even though the Yucatan has very few roads, and I’ve been down there more than a dozen times, there are still some roads I haven’t been on. Such as the road between Valladolid and Izamal, which passes through the village of Uayma. Where there’s this: I also had time to poke around [...]
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A Winning Town – Campeche, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 21 December 2010
It happens. You plan to stay in a city for a few days and end up staying for a week. That’s what happened to us in Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and beautifully restored formerly fortified colonial city now making its way as a modern port town. Over recent years federal and local governments have pumped millions of pesos into a beautification project designed to restore and maintain most of the downtown area. Hundreds of colonial era buildings have been brought back to life and they’re spruced up regularly with subsidized painting programs.
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Chenes Style Mayan Sites – Edzná, Tabasqueño, Hochob & Dzibilnocac, Campeche State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 20 December 2010
Edzná The Mayan city of Edzná, which died a mysterious death following a prolonged period of prosperity and progress, is a remarkable example of late Chenes-style Mayan architecture and ingenuity. The city was inhabited into the 15th century and what remains of it includes multi-tiered buildings, elaborate roof structures called roof combs, elegant columns and even an irrigation system of canals and reservoirs.
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Hacienda High Life -Yucatan and Campeche States, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 14 September 2010
Starwood Hotels owns or operates more than 1,000 hotels in more than 100 countries. Fewer than 90 of those are part of the hotel giant’s elite Luxury Collection and only five of those are part of The Haciendas group in southern Mexico (read our full profile of The Haciendas for iTraveliShop). These hotels are housed in what were once the grand homes of the owners of sisal farms and factories which supplied natural plant fibers to the rope and twine making industry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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On “Vintage” Hotels
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 21 June 2010
This past winter, when we were in Bangkok and staying at the totally fabulous Hotel Atlanta, I realized there’s a very particular kind of lodging I like. For want of a better term, I think I’ll call them “vintage hotels.” “Antique hotels” might also work. “Nostalgia bivouacs” are what they really are. And the funny [...]
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