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Puerto Vallarta Announces Dates for “Pride Vallarta 2013″

Puerto Vallarta Announces Dates for “Pride Vallarta 2013″

Posted 15 April 2013 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Current Travel Press Releases | No Comments

Puerto Vallarta’s annual LGBT event “Vallarta Pride” will take place this year on the weekend of May 24th, 2013. Events will start with a cocktail kick-off at Puerto Vallarta’s Casa Cupula Hotel Boutique and continue for three days, celebrating LGBT culture and Puerto Vallarta’s welcoming community with music festivals, beach parties, fashion shows, mass commitment [...]

Turning 50 in Oaxaca – A Celebration of the Senses

Turning 50 in Oaxaca – A Celebration of the Senses

Posted 01 April 2013 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Travel, Travel Agent Corner, Travel Features | 5 Comments

By: Lisa Coleman 20 years ago I sat on the shores of Playa la Ropa in Zihuatanejo celebrating my 30th birthday. My dear friend from Switzerland told me she had planned a party on the beach. It sounded great, but since this was a new destination for me, turns out she was the only person [...]

Justo Sierra – University Founder

Justo Sierra – University Founder

Posted 27 January 2013 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture | No Comments

Yesterday was the birth date of Justo Sierra Mendez, a great man who was very important in founding of the National University of Mexico – better known as UNAM. You can read more about him here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Sierra

Speaking in Tongues: New VozMaya Cards Raise Funds for Modern Descendants of an Ancient Culture

Speaking in Tongues: New VozMaya Cards Raise Funds for Modern Descendants of an Ancient Culture

Posted 15 January 2013 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Current Travel Press Releases | 2 Comments

Beautifully designed large-format cards combine entertainment, culture and history while supporting Mexico’s indigenous communities Bend, OR (January 1, 2012) – Decorated with beautiful reproductions of Mayan words by renowned artist John Hillmer, the VozMaya cards combine works of art on one side with a bite-sized lesson in Maya, Spanish, and the English translation on the [...]

The Day Approaches

Posted 15 December 2012 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Travel | No Comments

There is a joke going around that there will be a lot of last minute Christmas shopping  in Mayaland on December 22. So exactly how are the Mayans preparing for the apocalypse? Well, there are plenty of people, Maya or not, who have been cashing in on the December 21 demise day, but most of [...]

Cancun Welcomes its very own Maya Museum

Cancun Welcomes its very own Maya Museum

Posted 28 November 2012 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Current Travel Press Releases, News Flash | 2 Comments

Cancun, Mexico (November 13, 2012) – The Cancun Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is proud to announce the inauguration of one of the destination’s most anticipated attractions: Cancun’s Maya Museum. Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, presided over the inauguration ceremony on November 1. After six years of construction, the museum’s modern structure has become the largest [...]

Calderon Wants To Re-Name Mexico

Calderon Wants To Re-Name Mexico

Posted 23 November 2012 | By | Categories: Arts and Culture, Politics and Views | No Comments

This is a good idea. Mexico is formally named Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United Mexican States. But the outgoing President says they don’t need the United States language – just Mexico. We’ll see if Congress goes along with him before he leaves office on December 1. Mexico deserves its own identity at this time in [...]