By MP Mexico News Staff • Monarch Butterfly Biosphere and San Miguel de Allende, two new attractions in Mexico • Archaeological sites, traditions, gastronomy and the friendly people are top reasons Americans travel to Mexico • US tourist flow increases to 3 million during the first 4 months of 2008 • More than 40% of [...]

Beneath Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun. Further Explorations in the “Place Where Gods Were Born” By Marita Adair   It’s not breaking news that a long series of caves, or interconnected chambers, exist below Mexico’s Pyramid of the Sun at the massive Teotihuacan archeological site near Mexico City.  They have been mapped for some time. [...]

Late Breaking News Cracking the Maya Code The week of April 8, 2008 on PBS stations Marita Adair Fasten your seatbelts. Prepare for a head-spinning ride through the centuries on a twist-and-turn journey that ends with the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs. Based on the extraordinarily riveting book Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe, [...]

Marita Adair  Hot off the press. The April 2008 issue of National Geographic Traveler showcases 15 inns in Mexico, among 150 in Mexico, Canada, the U.S. and Caribbean, as exuding the best “Sense of Place.” That’s out of a starting list of more than 600.  To make the cut, each inn demonstrated how the guest [...]

 Legacy of George O. Jackson Mexican Festivals A Feast for the Eyes  Marita Adair   In 2001, when George O. Jackson crossed the first goal line of his enormous Essence of Mexico Project http://www.thessenceofmexicoproject.org/  11 years after he started,hehad photographed 330 of the most important indigenous festivals in Mexico as they existed in the last [...]