I spent all of last week in Mérida, the largest city on the Yucatán peninsula. I had been there once before, just about a year ago, and wrote and posted photos of that visit in this blog, here (will open in a new browser window or tab). Worth checking out as well, since I tried [...]
Yesterday afternoon I went to Cenote Calavera with my friend Gabriel for a swim, and ended up having an amazing, dreamlike experience I want to tell you about. If I ever had any doubt about the cenotes being magical, holy places, I don’t anymore! Cenote Calavera, in January 2008 After jumping into the big opening [...]
This past week, I spent four days in Mérida, the largest city on the Yucatán peninsula and the capital of the state of Yucatán. Mérida is located in the northwest part of the peninsula, about 22 miles from the Gulf of Mexico coast. Read more about Mérida here. A view of the zócalo (central city [...]
Mexico feels magical to me right now. Not “fairy-dust” magical, as if this was a place where everything is perfect – hardly. But Latino-mystical magic, with its bright side and dark side, but all of it flowing together in a juicy, creative chaos. Yesterday I packed up and moved from Villas Tulum, where some amazing [...]
Above: My perspective on things today at the beach. That’s a boat to the left; I like to get next to one of the upended boats to get out of the breeze. It was a nice hot day, and after laying there for awhile, I was ready for a swim. This was actually the first [...]
Today I had a little free time in the afternoon, and the sun was shining, so I rode my bike out to the beach by the Tulum ruins, and took the photos here. In a few of them you can see the tower-like structure which is part of the pre-Columbian Mayan city, built between 1200 [...]
I went to the beach by a different route yesterday: north on 307 and past the ruins. This was a beach visit and not a ruins visit; I do plan to tour the ruins at some point this winter. I’ve only been to the ruins once, and that was last winter, so I’d forgotten what [...]