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Not Your Average Day in Cancun – A Mayan Morning at Ek Balam
Blog: Landlopers - 2 April 2012
I like old things. Older the better and if they can even be called ancient, I’m there. So when the JW Marriott in Cancun invited me down for a rare astronomical event involving one of the most famous ruins in the world, I didn’t hesitate...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Affordable Hotels In Cancun
Blog: My Little Nomads - 6 March 2012
10 Affordable Hotels In Cancun Mexico Continue reading → Popular Articles on My Little Nomads: How To Find The Best Hotel Deals Online
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Family Friendly Hotels In Cancun
Blog: My Little Nomads - 14 February 2012
The 5 Best Hotels and Resorts for Families Visiting Cancun, Mexico. Continue reading → Related Articles: Family-friendly Hotels In Cabo San Lucas The Best Family-friendly Hotels In London
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The Best Beaches In Mexico
Blog: My Little Nomads - 3 November 2011
An opinionated list of the best beaches in Mexico. Continue reading →Read the entire article here: The Best Beaches In Mexico Or check out Where to go in Southeast Asia with kids
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Caving at Rio Secreto – The Most Exciting Adventure of My Life
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 7 October 2011
The first time I stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon I couldn’t stop thinking what it must have been like for the very first person who saw it. I imagined an American Indian emerging from the dense pine forest that surrounds the canyon and stopping in his tracks, overwhelmed by the vista that [...]
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Living the Good Life on Mexico’s Riviera Maya
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 4 October 2011
Faithful readers of Hole In The Donut Cultural Travel know that I am no fan of all-inclusive resorts, so when Iberostar Resorts invited me to be part of a press trip to Mexico’s Riviera Maya, I thought long and hard before accepting. My previous experiences with all-inclusives have left a bad taste in my mouth [...]
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Artistic Underwater Museum: MUSA
Blog: WildJunket - 3 May 2011
This is a sponsored guest post by Karly Code. The next time you go scuba diving, you can see a whole lot more than just fish.
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A New Way of Thinking About Trash
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 11 April 2011
Some years ago an elfin man approached me as I walked along a boulevard in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He could see I was puzzled and wanted to help. What did I need? Holding out my handfull of trash, I pantomimed dumping it, then shrugged my shoulders and swept my hand in a semicircle [...]
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Scuba Diving Tips for a Family Diving Holiday
Blog: My Little Nomads - 23 March 2011
How to travel the world with kids: My Little Nomads Most emailed post: Tips and Advice for Traveling With Kids Most popular post: How To Pick the Perfect Greek Island for a Family Vacation
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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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Mexico #5: Snack Break!
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 24 January 2011
OK, time for less narrative, more pretty pictures. Bees swarm the displays of sweets in every market. I always thought people must bring the bees with them, and put them out to show off how sweet their treats are. I mean, where the hell are the bees coming from in the middle of the city? [...]
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Mexico #4: Howdy, Cowboy
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 17 January 2011
In Tizimin, I was driving around the main square, and I noticed there was an awful lot of horse shit in the street. “What happened here?” I wondered out loud. “Did we just miss a parade?” That was a little bit of a joke for my mom, who was in the passenger seat. See, she [...]
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Charmed by the Snake Kingdom – Calakmul, Campeche State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 10 January 2011
Calakmul, one of the largest, most powerful and most important Mayan cities ever discovered, had sophisticated infrastructure (including the largest Mayan reservoir ever found) and a massive amount of land and buildings. The so-called Snake Kingdom even had a logo–an emblematic snake head has been found all over the place. Calakmul reached the height of power during the Classic Period (250 to 900 AD) and the city/kingdom once had 50,000 inhabitants and ruled the land up to 150 kilometers away.
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Mexico #3: Party Favors
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 10 January 2011
Beyond Hanal Pixan, fall is dotted with village fiestas and fairs of all sorts. Izamal is notorious for having some kind of festivity from mid-October straight on through December. When we passed through, it was the season for gremios, which pilgrimages to the church, made by each trade syndicate, such as engineers, taxi drivers, etc. [...]
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Mexico #2: Partying on…and on
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 3 January 2011
Another thing I’ve noticed about parties in Mexico is that they really seem to go on much longer than you’d think. Carnaval, for instance, can carry on into Lent if you live in a very small town and have to wait for the thrill rides and the rest of the traveling fair to get to [...]
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Río Bec Style Mayan Sites – Becan, Hormiguero, Chicanná & Xpujil, Campeche State, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 27 December 2010
After visiting more than 20 Mayan archaeological sites throughout Southern Mexico it can be tempting to lump them all together as amazing but largely similar piles of rocks. That would be a mistake. We’re no experts (in Mayan archaeology, or much else for that matter) but if you read up a bit and look closely even untrained eyes can begin to see distinct differences from region to region and era to era.
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Mexico #1: Where the Party at?
Blog: Roving Gastronome - 27 December 2010
Mexicans love a party. That is not a stereotype. That is a stone-cold fact, extrapolated from years of visiting the Yucatan in every season, and encountering some kind of festivity every time. I can only conclude that Mexico really does have a fiesta culture, like all the brochures say. If you really want me to [...]
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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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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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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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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.
