| Costa Maya Verde | Mexican marketeers call this stretch of their Caribbean the Costa Maya. Just 4 hours’ drive south of Cancun, it’s a world apart. Quiet, with the tourist infrastructure still minimal (this won’t last). But the weather is just as warm, the sand as silky, and the tropical vistas glorious. The clear […]
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| Agua Muy Potable | Chocolately organic coffee and colorful Mayan handicrafts aren’t the only highly prized products from Guatemala’s UNESCO World Heritage town of La Antigua. Nearby, on a finca(ranch), is its greenest spot. For here, day after day, the greatest environmental threat to the health of Guatemala—and the entire underdeveloped world—is combated. We’re […]
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| Greening in Guatemala | They ate so many avocados they became known as panzas verdes. Green bellies. That’s about all there was to eat after the earth shook Guatemala’s capital to pieces in 1773. The Spanish rulers decreed the city dead, but a foolhardy few chose to remain behind to live amid the rubble. […]
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| A Dispiriting Hunt | The capital city of Mexico’s Yucatan state, Mérida, is many things to many people. Large—nearly 800 thousand. Commercial—busy, busy, busy, the region’s business hub. Cultural—the best museums and other forms of cultural vitality on the peninsula. Historic—graced in its centro with many fine plazas and impressive Mexican colonial homes. One […]
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| Tulum Is It | Looking for green on Mexico’s Riviera Maya,the 80+ miles edging the Caribbean coast southward from Cancun? Here’s our advice: Go right on past Playa del Carmen, which can be fun and has decent restaurants but hasn’t seemed to have heard that the party will soon be over if they don’t […]
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| Ultra Green Style | The first word that springs to mind is drama. OK … maybe after wow! The lake itself is drama in liquid form. One of the 4 sacred lakes that bounds the traditional world of the Guatemalan highlands, Lake Atitlan is a total oh-wow stunner. A deep caldera filled with cool […]
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| The Green Nexus | Panajachel (just plain Pana to the locals) is the commercial hub of Lake Atitlan in the western Guatemalan highlands. Compared to the quiet indigenous villages that ring the lake, it’s a bustling metropolis. Its street markets sell most of the same brilliantly colored textiles and crafts you’ll find at the […]
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| Elements of Green | Whether you favor the notion that Isla Mujeres (Island of Women) got its name from images of Mayan goddesses that the 16th-century Spaniards discovered here or the legend that this is where pirates of the Caribbean secreted their their special ladies, the place has a feminine vibe. Sultry. Welcoming. Gentle, […]
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| Guatemala’s Green Godfather | The ancient Mayan city of Tikal is a true wonder of the archeological world, and the 200+ square miles of protected tropical forest that surround it are reasons enough for a visit to northern Guatemala. But where do you stay? We have a suggestion you shouldn’t refuse. Film director Francis […]
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| Delhi’s Mission Possible? | How is it that India’s vast capital city, roundly maligned in the past as among the world’s most toxic metropolises, now says it hopes to be pollution-free in 2010? It’s a story line as unlikely as, say, Slum Dog Millionaire sweeping the Oscars, and, yes, it seems totally improbable to us. […]
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