Looking for a Yucatan experience? What do you get when you mix a museum of Yucatan cuisine with a casually elegant restaurant serving Yucatan specialties and craft cocktails? Museo de la Gastonomica Yucateca. Unfortunately, we...
Read MoreImmersive Spanish lessons with field trips and tortilla-making at Habla in Merida, MX were a blast. My family was in Merida as part of our participation in the Live Anywhere on Airbnb program. We were spending...
Read MoreThe Shop Pola is a very popular small gelato shop near Santa Lucia park. It is famous for high-quality handmade gelato, but also just as famous for offbeat flavors with a Meridian connection. But is this...
Read MorePiedras Sagradas or Sacred Stones. It’s a video mapping experience on the Gran Plaza in Merida. Lights, art, music, and narration combine to tell the history of the San Ildefonso Cathedral. Projected directly onto the...
Read MoreMusic, folk dance, and vibrant video mapping combine for the theatrical show, Dialogos del Conquistador at Casa Montejo at the Gran Plaza. Using mixed media elements to tell the story of the temporary colonization of...
Read MoreAn open-air Yucatan serenade with dancers in a park with shade trees. This happens every week in Parque Santa Lucia in Merida, MX. It is a long-standing tradition, since 1965, and free to all. There are...
Read MoreLet the games begin! In Merida, MX, there are reenactments of the Mayan ball game Pok Ta Pok every week in the street in front of the Cathedral on the Gran Plaza. The performances were...
Read MoreCorpus Christi Cathedral is a large sunny yellow colonial-style Catholic church. It is considered an iconic landmark in the area, approximately one mile south of the town square or Parque Benito Juarez. The church is...
Read MoreVisiting the stingless Melipona bees at the Mayan Bee Sanctuary was both an educational and a fun afternoon. Your admission ticket provides a guided tour through the grounds where graphic displays are set in nature...
Read MoreCarnaval in Cozumel is a really, really big deal. Parades are what immediately come to mind for most people, but there is so much more. It’s an entire season of fun! There are parades. Three...
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