The Film’s Story: Jats’uts Meyah
There’s a story in each wrinkle, a dignity in aging. The face of Yucatecan midwife and herbalist, Bacila Tzek Uc, expresses a history of hands-on work. Delivering babies, massaging mothers,…
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There’s a story in each wrinkle, a dignity in aging. The face of Yucatecan midwife and herbalist, Bacila Tzek Uc, expresses a history of hands-on work. Delivering babies, massaging mothers,…
Continue readingMore than a memory, eating culturally aware food is an experience that changes us, simultaneously opening our perspectives and stamping that perfect, history-flavored bite into our mind’s memory. At Museo…
Continue readingWhen visiting Yucatán, amplify your experience by considering the deep, winding history of the region. For nearly three millennia, humans have been writing history in the Peninsula, a story which…
Continue readingWe balance on the tips of high-backed chairs, feeling beautiful, with nowhere else to be but here. The world swings around us, moving at its digital pace, and we giggle…
Continue readingDon Gama has always been an explorer. I know this, because he told me, and also because I can tell that he’s exploring now, as his hands grip the wheels…
Continue readingTropically trending, pristinely pink, and curiously balanced, a large population of Caribbean Flamingos ranks high on a long list of “why visit Yucatán”. An extremely social bird, flamingos eat, rest,…
Continue readingI came to Yucatán for the first time in 2011, and on the second day, I visited El Hoyo, locally known as Casa de Té. It’s still my favorite writing…
Continue readingWhen I was a little girl, I loved classic 90s movies about sleepovers in home decor stores. Stepping into Mint & Lime on Avenida García Lavín, that girlish fantasy took…
Continue readingDepth of Field Neydi’s rich, dark hair rests on her earthy, embroidered blouse. A confident woman with fascinating things to say, Neydi Cardeña has been charged with running the region’s…
Continue readingWhen the “conquistadores” arrived to modern day Mérida, they found the fallen Maya city of T’Hō. The newly established Concept House Casa T’Hō takes its name from the ancient city,…
Continue readingI flew to Yucatán from Mississippi for the first time in 2011 for an exhausting summer of archaeology. It was hot day after hot day of back-breaking (sometimes boring) work:…
Continue readingXtabay (pronounced esh-ta-bye): a fantastical Yucatecan woman, with long dark hair, dressed in white. Akin to a mermaid, the Xtabay floats between the spiky thorns of a ceiba grove. There,…
Continue readingNothing brings me closer to the ocean than a tent. Nature’s lullaby carries me into a trance when I sleep in my wall-free nest. All four directions of the wind…
Continue reading“And that’s how my story began in the land of Yucatán.” Alberto Salum As the world seems to become a smaller and smaller place with the ease of travel and…
Continue readingThe modern Maya inhabitants of distant Yaxhachén maintain many of their traditional ways of living. They thrive as subsistence farmers, where men cultivate honey and work on small farms called…
Continue readingWith 106 municipalities, countless cenotes, beaches, archaeological sites, and haciendas, Yucatán boasts one of the world’s densest cultural landscapes thanks to its ancient and contemporary Maya population. Accept that you’ll…
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2017 I hear Clémence unzipping her tent and she asks if I’m awake. We camped somewhere in the middle of 90 km coastal Biosphere Reserve Río Lagartos. I…
Continue readingLocal expert Don Oscar is a professional in the technique of finding and eating the city’s best tacos–for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He advises: when visiting a “taquería,” approach the…
Continue readingIn the late 1920s, Doña Bacila Tzek Uc was born in Dzam, Yucatán in a hammock underneath a thatch roof. When she was eight, a locust plague devastated the Puuc…
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