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Things to do! In October: October 19 – November 06, 2012, Mazatlan: Sinaloa Festival of the Arts During the Sinaloa Arts Festival you will be able to enjoy and admire a great variety of activities from spectacles outdoors, or in open plazas, to theater venues, like the majestic Angela Peralta Theater. In [...]
Things to do! In July: Each week during July – Puerto Vallarta: Vallarta Yacht Club Summer Sailing Camp Summer Sailing Camp at the Vallarta Yacht Club is an opportunity to introduce your child to sailing or build upon current skills with more advanced training. Three different levels of classes for ages 8 to young adult will be offered [...]
Places to go! Robert Brady Museum The Robert Brady Museum shows the collection of the artist, antiquarian, and decorator from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Ceramics, antique furniture, sculptures, paintings, and tapestries fill the restored colonial mansion, all beautifully arranged in rooms painted with bright colors. Note that the building numbers on this street are out of [...]
Things to do! In August: August 3-August 19, 2012 – San Miguel de Allende: The 34th International Chamber Music Festival 2012. Considered the top chamber music festival in Latin America, the Festival’s home base, the intimate and acoustically pleasing Angela Peralta Theater seats 400 people, with tickets ranging from $15.00 for balcony seating, to $42.00 [...]
Things to do! In September: September 9, 2012 – Ajijic, Lake Chapala: Regatta de Globos (Hot Air Balloons) is always held on the Saturday before Independence Day, which is September 16 this year. It is held at the soccer field on Calle Revolucion. This event is the beginning of the Fiesta Season that lasts [...]
Our Mexico Trip/Tour expert Candice Carboo-Ofulue is a cultural journalist from London. Even in her early years as a twitchy toddler, Candice lived to travel. By day, she and her gremlin, Fluffy, adventured into the exotic world that was her Grandmother’s garden, overturning rocks in search of fossils and discovering wonderful species of bird. At [...]
Breaking the tide of the Gulf of Mexico, Campeche (Com pay CHAY) is one of the oldest colonial cities in Yucatán Peninsula, founded in 1540. In golden years, it thrived as the major port; trading timber, dyewood, silver and gold. An elegant city soon emerged behind the harbour, patterned with baroque style townhouses and ornamental [...]
Known as the “Yellow City,” Izamal may be the oldest colonial settlement in Yucatán state, located only 45 minutes from the capital, Mérida. It was founded in early 16th century, atop the pre-existing Mayan city of Izamal. As was the strategy of Spanish conquest, temples and buildings were destroyed, and a colonial township constructed from [...]
In peaceful slumber, on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, is the Sian Ka’an (see-an CAAN) Biosphere Reserve. Over 500,000 hectares of tropical forest, wetlands and coastal dunes, its remarkable biodiversity includes jaguar, howler monkey, and even the American flamingo. Its eastern region expands across the Caribbean Sea, where it shelters a section of [...]
Almost 80 km south of Mérida, the present-day capital of the Yucatán state, is the ruin of Uxmal (OOSH mal), an influential Mayan metropolis of the late classic period (AD 600 to 900). In its heyday, Uxmal’s influence spread across northern Yucatán and included subjugating the neighboring settlements of Labná and Sayil. Today, it is [...]
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