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Mexico City, Mexico. September 2015
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“In Mexico, Spaniards encountered history as well as geography. This history is still alive: it is a present rather than a past. The temples and gods of pre-Colombian Mexico are a pile of ruins, but the spirit that breathed life into that world has not disappeared: it speaks to the hermetic language of myth, legend, forms of social co-existence, popular art, customs.” Octavio Paz in his Nobel Laureate address in 1990 The home of tequila, Aztecs, sombreros and Maya pyramids – not to mention Pancho Villa, Diego Rivera, El Chapo and Carlos Slim (though of Lebanese ancestry) – almost everyone on the planet …
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The Yucatán, Mexico. 2008-2015
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Every time I travel, I always get a tip to visit the country’s beautiful beaches, little do they know that we, New Yorkers, are blessed with multiple daily 3-hour non-stop flights to Cancun. Once you’ve experienced the beauty of the Riviera Maya, dove the underground rivers (cenotes) of the Yucatán, visited and learnt about the grandeur of the Maya archeological sites (Chichen Itza, Tulum, Uxmal, Calakmul, Xpujil), danced at one of the BMP Festival events in Playa del Carmen, you realize that you found your perfect “beach” destination. So, skip Goa or Brighton, come to the Mexican peninsula! First time I came to the Yucatán was in September 2008 to do an underwater photoshoot …
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Tagged ADO, ADO bus, Angelita cenote, Aventura Mexicana, Aventura Mexicana Hotel, BMP Festival, Cancun, Cancun International Airport, Caste War, Catedral de San Gervasio, cave diving, cavern diving, cenote, cenote diving, Cenote Sagrado, ceviche, Chac Mool cenote, Chichen Itza, Chilam Balam, Church of Nuestra Seniora del Carmen, Convento de Sisal, Cozumel, Dance of the Flyers, Danza de los Voladores, diving, Dos Ojos, Dos Ojos cenote, Edward Herbert Thompson, El Castillo, El Mercado, El Rey, Fernando Rodriguez, Fire dance, Gran cenote, Great Ball Court, green Moray eel, Hernandez de Cordoba, Hernandez de Cordova, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Ixchel, Jardin del Eden, Juego de Pelota, Kukulcan pyramid, La Parroquia de San Servacio, mariachi, Maya, Maya civilization, Mayan Bistro, Mercado de Artesanias, Mexico, Moon Palace, Moon Palace Golf and Spa Resort, Moon Palace Resort, Moray eel, Morey eel, Osario Group, Phocea, Phocea diving center, Phocea Mexico, Platform of the Eagles and the Jaguars, Playa del Carmen, Quetzalcóatl, Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Rodriguez Naranjo, Sacbe Number One, Samula cenote, San Bernardino de Siena, San Roque City Museum, stingray, Taj Mahal cenote, Tarraya, Temple of the Jaguar, Temple of the Skulls, Temple of the Tables, The Temple of the Warriors, Toltec, Tulum, Tzompantli, Valladolid, Xaman Ha, Xtoloc, Yucatan
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