Take Us To The Cenotes

From the small town of Cuzama outside of Merida, one can hire a horse-drawn cart for a 3-hour tour of three beautiful cenotes. The carts run on rails built to bring the henequen crop in from the fields. In the days of sailing ships, henequen was in heavy demand for making rope.

Yucatan Fall 2006

November 2nd 2006
Bowdon Family in Yucatan October 2006 We hadn't taken an international family trip in over 5 years, since Turkey in April 2001, so it was past time. Andrea was about to turn 9 and Benjamin 6 1/2. We considered a lot of destinations and settled on Yucatan, for lots of reasons. * it has some tourist infrastructure without being "touristy" (that is, outside of Cancun a ... read more

North America » Mexico » Yucatán

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more

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