Yucatán's Magic - Mérida Side Trips: Treasures of Mayab

Finally the book for traveling adventurers who want to see more than just trinket shops and crowded tourist traps has arrived:

Just launched — our new book, Yucatán’s Magic – Mérida Side Trips: Treasures of Mayab

Built one stone at a time like the Mayan pyramids.

Over a quarter of a century of inspired exploration and recording of our travels in captioned photo stories has led my wife and me to compile an impressive collection of outings that are the foundation for this book, built one story at a time.

We present the best of the best after over twenty-five years; places, excursions and outings. Each place we have visited we like for different reasons; tranquility, history, view of village life, and connect with the Maya past and present, change of scenery and a look at a uniquely distinctive region. 

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Faces of Carnival - Mérida, Yucatán - 2011

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52 Years of Newspaper Delivery by Bicycle - Streets of Mérida

  Eligio Chi Perez, pictured below, begins his day before sunrise by riding his bicycle seven kilometers from his home in Colonial Bojorquez to the Diario de Yucatán office in downtown Mérida to pick up  newspapers to deliver.

  Each day his delivery of 175 newspapers takes him as far north as the Grand Plaza area, eight kilometers north.
  Still smiling, seventy-one year old Eligio has faithfully made his rounds for the past fifty-two years.
  Amazingly, he has only worn out two bicycles in the process and not burned a single drop of gasoline.
  Congratulations to one of Yucatán’s most ecologically friendly citizens, Eligio Chi Perez.