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The Best Travel Videos for Cancun and the Yucatan
Blog: My Little Nomads - 7 October 2010
Watch the best videos for planning a vacation to the Yucatan region.READ MORE AT: The Best Travel Videos for Cancun and the Yucatan Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: A Cancun Family Vacation — Things To Do with Kids
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Horse-Drawn Trains, Cenotes, Mayan Ruins and One LOOOONG Pier – Around Merida, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 9 September 2010
The town of Cuzamá is the starting point for one of the most unique journeys we’ve taken in Mexico. For 200 pesos you can rent a cart (plenty of room for four people and a cooler) mounted on railroad tracks which is then hitched to a horse the size of a large dog which then pulls said cart along said railroad tracks out to a series of three stunning naturally formed sinkhole swimming spots, otherwise known as cenotes. The small-gauge railroad racks are leftovers from the days when this area was booming with sisal plantations feeding a very hungry market for rope and twine.
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Hacienda Hotels: One Historic, One Hip – Merida, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 8 September 2010
Our time in Merida was book-ended by stays at two extraordinary—and very different—haciendas that have been turned into luxury hotels. Rosas y Xocolate (pronounced chocolate) on Paseo de Montejo is a brand new modern creation in side the stately bones of a colonial mansion. It’s an architectural fantasy—all angles and contrasts and color (mostly pink). For more, read our full profile of Rosas y Xocolate for iTraveliShop.
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Pride and Prejudice – Merida, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 6 September 2010
Merida is known as “The White City.” Some say the city earned this romantic nickname because it’s so clean and white that it sparkles. There are certainly a lot of white buildings but there’s a lot of color too and Merida actually struck us as dirtier than we expected. Merida was settled on the site of an existing Mayan village in 1542 by Francisco de Montejo “el Mozo” the son of infamous Spanish conquistador Fancisco de Montejo.
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Hacienda Xcanatun – An Oasis of Tranquility in Mexico’s Yucatan
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 6 August 2010
I followed the bellman down a long covered portico, where lustrous marble floors gleamed like polished bronze in the slanting rays of a late afternoon sun. At the end of the terrace he stopped before a massive set of wooden doors and jiggled a large metal skeleton key in the lock. Shifting my backpack impatiently, [...]
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Meandering through Mexico
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 29 July 2010
Ok, so first up let me apologise to those avid readers out there (aka Mum and Gran) who have been waiting so long for me top update my blog. I realise I am at least a month behind by now, if not more, and have long ago traded in North America for Europe, but don’t despair, I intend you fill you in on all my adventures…From Tulum, we thought we were in need of some more beach time (Tulum had been so rough we couldn’t go in) so we headed straight to Isla Mujeres, bypassing Cancun like it was the plague.
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Serpents and Demons Couldn’t Protect Uxmal from Ultimate Demise
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 26 July 2010
The demon’s manic eyes stopped me in my tracks. I shivered, imagining its hawk-like beak flaying the flesh from my bones. This was the Mayan rain god, Chac, the most important deity in a land where the only source of fresh water was infrequent rain. Ominous Chac visages framed the stairway on the Pyramid of [...]
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Built Atop the Ruins of Ancient T’Ho, Merida’s Main Plaza is the Wellspring of its Culture
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 22 July 2010
I pressed my nose to the bus window as we rolled into Merida, one of the places in Mexico that I had yearned to see for years. My brow furrowed in disappointment; the city looked nothing like I had envisioned. With its location in the northwestern corner of the Yucatan, just inland of where the [...]
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Mexico Trivia: Zocalo, Plazuela, Jardin, or Plaza Principal?
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 19 July 2010
I hopped in a taxi at the bus station and asked the driver to take me to the Zocalo. “Perdon?” he replied. Thinking he hadn’t heard me I repeated my request, but he still seemed perplexed. “La Plaza Principal?” I tried. That did the trick; we were instantly on our way to the main square [...]
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Giving in to Temptation in Merida
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 17 July 2010
Somehow the man in the Chihuahua park knew I was easy prey. From a distance he slouched against a hand cart and looked me over. His first pass was casual, just a slow saunter past my park bench, without even a glance in my direction. Old addictive thinking patterns resurfaced, patterns I thought I had [...]
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Photo of the Day – Double Rainbow
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 16 July 2010
Not being cooped up in an office all day has about a billion pluses. One of them is the chance to stumble upon rainbows which happen all the time–you just have to be there to see them. During a drive between Mérida and Temozón in Yucatan State we passed through a brief summer downpour and straight into the most defined, brightest and generally most awesome double rainbow we’ve ever seen. It remained visible for miles and at times it felt like we were going to drive right through it.
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Scoop Scoops: Our 5 Favorite Ice Cream Treats in Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 1 July 2010
July has been National Ice Cream Month ever since Ronald Reagan made it so during his presidency in 1984. He also decreed that the third Sunday in July is National Ice Cream Day. Anyway, to celebrate we thought we’d share the scoop on the best scoops we’ve found during our 14 months of road tripping through Mexico. We’re not even dessert people, but here in Mexico they definitely scream for ice cream. In no particular order, here are five of our favorite finds. 1. Every region of Mexico is known for some sort of signature food.
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Mediocre Merida
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 24 June 2010
The sad fact is that when travelling I simply don't have the time to do justice to each place i visit. It obviously not possible to spend a week or month or year everywhere. But there are also times that merely by going to a place at all, you've given it too much precious time.
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DÍA 4: UXMAL Y CELESTÚN
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 23 June 2010
Muchas cosas queríamos hacer por los alrededores de Mérida, y muy poco tiempo teníamos para hacerlas. En las cercanías Mérida hay cenotes, ciudades coloniales, ruinas y más ruinas, haciendas, playas y reservas naturales. Estuvimos planeando qué hacer: mi compañero quería ruinas y yo, previendo otro empacho de ruinas similar al de Egipto, prefería la reserva natural. Al final llegamos a un acuerdo y decidimos hacer las dos cosas alquilando un coche durante un día.
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Gushin' over Uxmal
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 21 June 2010
Far too often, it is easy to grow disinterested by national landmarks. When travelling through Western Europe you swear that if you have to see 1 more freaking church, someone is going to die. Or you may hear yourself saying, "ohhhh, not another mausoleum" when travelling through Central Asia.
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GOOOOOOOL!!!! World Cup Report #1 – Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 18 June 2010
We watched Mexico’s first 2010 FIFA World Cup match (against South Africa) in the bar of the Hotel & Bungalows Mayaland in Chichen Itza and it was awesome (even though the match ended in a tie). Yesterday we met some new friends (hi John and Tom) at a Brazilian-owned bar called La Choperia here in Mérida and we all settled in with some lovely Modelo Chope beer on tap (a rarity) to watch Mexico’s second World Cup match, this time against France.
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DÍA 3: CHICHEN ITZÁ Y...¡BIENVENIDOS A MÉXICO!, MÉRIDA
Blog: Diario de a bordo - 17 June 2010
O sea, que tenemos el billete de bus a las 10.30 am de Chichen Itzá a Mérida ya comprado, con lo que solo tenemos dos horas para visitar Chichen Itzá, ¿verdad? Bueno, yo diría que tenemos tiempo más que suficiente…
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