Archive for the ‘Mexico City Attraction’ Category
A View of Pueblo Life From the Inside
Monday, July 19, 2010 10:25 No CommentsAT about 8:30 at night, an artillery-like barrage of fireworks shattered the silence, followed by the oompah of a tuba and the beating of drums. My curiosity aroused, I left the simple wooden cabin in which I was staying and went into the darkness to investigate. I found a slow-moving parade [...]
Where the Streets Are Paved With Sand
Monday, July 19, 2010 10:18 No CommentsCorrection Appended
THE road to Holbox isn’t an entirely promising one. Our trip to this small Mexican island began much the way my husband and I had been told to expect: with a ride in a dented van that, an hour after leaving the Cancún airport, veered off the main highway and [...]
Following Fact and Fiction Into a Colonial City
Monday, July 19, 2010 10:02 No CommentsIN the late summer of 1880, Susan and Oliver Ward traveled by steamship to Veracruz, Mexico. They then boarded a train and finally a stagecoach, heading 450 miles inland to the state of Michoacán. Along the way, the couple passed through towns and cities that had been built soon after the [...]
Costa Careyes, Mexico: A Pacific Resort Where the Air Kisses Are Understated
Monday, July 19, 2010 9:58 No CommentsTHE sun was setting above Costa Careyes, a luxury development on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and as it lowered into the foam-capped sea, its light was refracted through a massive, puzzling structure on the dunes that looked like Freddy Kruger’s knifelike finger nails.
The out-there creation — actually the beginnings of [...]
