Where Indiana Jones Would Have Stayed If you dreamt of being Indiana Jones when you were kid, you can finally live out your fantasies at the Maya ruins of Calakmul. It is a real-life lost city, an ancient Maya metropolis buried deep in the jungle in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and it’s crawling with [...]
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A red blob crossed the road in front of our safari open vehicle. I only caught the back end but I didn’t recognize that reddish color. Our guide stopped the car and said “caracal”. Hal and I looked at each other. What? Had we just heard the word caracal? Never in a million years [...]
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Beachfront Pickup At 7 am we gathered our gear, rubbed our sleepy eyes, and walked out the door of our apartment at Villa Los Mangles (read our hotel review here). The owner, Antoine, was waiting for us and we walked together down to the beach. The sun was already bright. It would be another hot, [...]
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Villa Los Mangles Apartments Holbox Island in Mexico is famous for one thing: Whale Sharks. However, if you are determined to see them, you should give yourself plenty of time. We waited four days for Hurricane Ernesto to pass before we could go out on our whale shark tour. For that reason, we were thankful [...]
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(Leer este articulo en Español.) “Dolphins! I see dolphins jumping out of the water!” I looked up in the direction Hal was pointing and there they were! Two of them leaped right out of the water directly in front of our hotel, Casa las Tortugas. I’d never seen wild dolphins do that before. It’s crazy, [...]
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