Mexico Travel Deals South of the Border / Cancun, Cabo San Lucas
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Posted August 12th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
So why go at all? Mexico Travelers can find amazing bargains in safer areas such as Cancun, Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta -- which are also, respectively, the top, fourth and fifth most-booked international destinations of 2010, according to Orbitz (OWW: 4.96, -0.03, -0.60%). A seven-night package for two, including airfare and stays at four-star properties in Cancun, costs as little as $1,000, says Tom Parsons, the chief executive of travel booking site BestFares.com. Two years ago, a tri...
Cancún is one of the most visited tourist points of Mexico
Cancún is one of the most visited tourist points of Mexico.
There's more to Cancún than high-rise resort hotels on a beautiful Caribbean beach. Unfortunately, that's all that too many visitors (more...)...
The Mayan Riviera are Mexico’s top destination for international travelers
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Posted February 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Cancun and its surrounding area of the Riviera Maya are Mexico's top destination for international travelers, drawing more than 3.5 million visitors a year. The beach was the lure for the first visit my wife and I took six years ago. But since then, we've returned to explore the Northern Hemisphere's largest barrier reef, natural springs pocking the Yucatan, mangrove swamps, salt marshes and thick jungle.
Much of the Yucatan is a flat limestone slab, topped with low jungle and scrub. Ther...
The African Presence in México
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Posted February 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
CONSIDERING all the recent speculation about hostility between blacks and Latinos, you have to cringe when you hear what happened to historian Christopher West on a working trip south of the border four years ago. The African American academic was helping research the influence of tourism on children in Isla Mujeres, an idyllic island near Cancun, when a local boy on the street threw a piece of pan dulce at him.
The insult (not the first he had encountered) might be seen as more evidence ...
