UNESCO Heritage Sites: Chichen Itza [Repost]

Chichen Itza is in fact the first Heritage site Nicole and I visited together thanks to her parents, who organized a family trip down to Mexico for Christmas a few…..

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June 6, 2018

Discovering El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) [Repost]

Given the tendency of societies to build upon previous settlements, older cities have a great wealth of history that can reach much further in the past than we might even…..

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December 2, 2017

Climbing the Castillo @ Chichen Itza [Repost]

One of our early trips together was a Christmas trip to Cancun we took in 2004 with my parents, my brother, and Kate, who would eventually become my sister-in-law. As…..

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November 10, 2014

Pros & Cons of the guided tour [Repost]

While the standard image of a busload of people piling out at some location, followed by a guide who gathers them up like ducklings and marches them off after a…..

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May 12, 2011

#WanderingWed: Isla Mujeres

Natalie – @nearafar on Twitter – is asking a travel question every Wednesday, and this week was ‘What’s your favourite island?’. Gary and I visited Isla Mujeres with my Dad…..

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April 9, 2011