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Mayan Hill Country – Ruta Puuc, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 21 October 2010
The so-called Ruta Puuc includes five Mayan sites (Uxmal which we’ve covered in a previous post, Kabah, Sayil, Labna and Xlapac) and one unusual cave in the Puuc region of the Yucatan Peninsula . Puuc is the Mayan word for hill and even though Yucatan State is almost pathologically flat there are actually rolling hills in this area. “Southern Mexico is lousy with Mayan sites,” we hear you say.
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Hacienda Has-Beens – Yucatan and Campeche States, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 September 2010
Our previous post was all about five haciendas which were built during Mexico’s sisal boom in Yucatan and Campeche and have been restored and turned into luxury hotels known as The Haciendas, part of the Starwood Luxury Collection. But for every hacienda that gets rescued and resurrected there are scores that remain abandoned and in ruins.
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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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Thank Chaac! – Uxmal, Yucatan State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 13 September 2010
Some Mayan sites we’ve visited have had no rhyme or reason–no layout or order that was recognizable to us.
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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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