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Cobá Ruins
The archaeological site entrance, at the end of the road on the southeast corner of Laguna Cobá, has a parking lot with surrounding eateries and snack stands. Be prepared to walk several kilometers on paths, depending on how much you want to see. If you arrive after 11am, you’ll fe
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Yumká
This Tabascan safari park , 17km east of Villahermosa (4km past the airport), is hardly a Kenyan game drive, but the space and greenery do offer a break from the city. Yumká is divided into jungle, savanna and lake zones, representing Tabasco’s three main ecosystems. Visits take th
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Templo de Nuestra Señora de Loreto
Noticeably sagging toward the east, this extraordinary church stands upon the site of an earlier chapel that housed a replica of Our Lady of Loreto brought from Italy by a Jesuit priest in 1675. The current church was completed in 1816 with the obligatory neoclassical facade of the
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Tulum Ruins
The ruins of Tulum preside over a rugged coastline, a strip of brilliant beach and green-and-turquoise waters thatll leave you floored. It’s true the extents and structures are of a modest scale and the late post-Classic design is inferior to those of earlier, more grandiose projec
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Parque Ecológico Chipinque
A stunning mountainside section of the Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey . It’s incredible that such a wild locale can exist so close to such a large city. Theres great hiking and mountain-biking on trails through dense forest, and up to rocky peaks including high point Copete d
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Museo Regional de Guanajuato Alhóndiga de Granaditas
This art and history museum was the site of the first major rebel victory in Mexicos War of Independence. Built between 1798 and 1808 as a grain storehouse, the Alhóndiga became a fortress in 1810 when 300 Spanish troops and loyalist leaders barricaded themselves inside when 20,000
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Museo de las Momias
This famous museum is one of the most bizarre (some might say distasteful) sights at the panteón (cemetery). The popular attraction is a quintessential example of Mexicos acceptance of, celebration of and obsession with death; visitors come from all over to see more than 100 disint
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Plaza Juárez
Representing the new face of the zone, the latest addition to the plaza is the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia , a mazelike museum of 55 halls dedicated to preserving the memory of genocide victims. The multimedia exhibit chronicles crimes committed against humanity in Cambodia, Guatema
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Palacio de Tetitla & Palacio de Atetelco
A group of palaces lies west of Teotihuacáns main area, several hundred meters northwest of gate 1. Many of the murals, discovered in the 1940s, are well preserved or restored and perfectly intelligible. Inside the sprawling Palacio de Tetitla , 120 walls are graced with murals of
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Hochob
About 60km south of Hopelchén, Hochob, ‘the place where corn is harvested,’ is among the most beautiful and terrifying of the Chenes-style sites. The Palacio Principal (Estructura 2, though signposted as ‘Estructura 1’) is on the north side of the main plaza, faced with an elaborat
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Monumento a El Pípila
The monument to El Pípila honors the hero who torched the Alhóndiga gates on September 28, 1810, enabling Hidalgos forces to win the first victory of the independence movement. The statue shows El Pípila holding his torch high over the city. On the base is the inscription Aún hay o
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Templo de la Purísima Concepción
This charming parroquia (parish church) is an impressive neoclassical building. The attraction for thousands of Mexican pilgrims is the reputedly miraculous image of St Francis of Assisi, displayed at the front of the church. A cult has grown up around the statue, whose help is sou
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El Árbol del Tule
The village of El Tule, 10km east of Oaxaca along Hwy 190, draws crowds of visitors for one very good reason: El Árbol del Tule, which is, by some counts, the biggest tree in the world. Californias General Sherman sequoia is ahead in total volume, but at 14m in diameter, El Árbol d
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Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
The events that occurred before, during and after the 1968 massacre on Plaza de las Tres Culturas are chronicled in Memorial del 68, a compelling multimedia exhibit in the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. The cultural center has two other outstanding permanent exhibits. Th
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Ruins
Stroll through luscious avocado groves to the beautiful ruins of this ceremonial site, which predates the Tarascan empire and thrived from about AD 450 to 900. Rarely visited and beautifully atmospheric as a result, they are located outside of Tingambato village, about 30km from Ur
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Sierra de Órganos
High on the western edge of Zacatecas state and declared a national park in 2000, the isolated Sierra de Órganos makes for a fun visit. The region is named for its distinctive rock formations, some of which resemble organ pipes; others are named for their similarity to the likes of
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Edificio de las Monjas
Thought by archaeologists to have been a palace for Maya royalty, the so-called Edificio de las Monjas (Nunnery), with its myriad rooms, resembled a European convent to the conquistadors, hence their name for the building. The building’s dimensions are imposing: its base is 60m lon
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Santa Rita
Santa Rita was an ancient Maya coastal town that once occupied the same strategic trading position as present-day Corozal Town, namely the spot between two rivers – the Río Hondo (which now forms the Belize–Mexico border) and the New River (which enters Corozal Bay south of town).
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Reserva Ecológica de Nanciyaga
On the northeast shore of the lake, the well-established Reserva Ecológica de Nanciyaga preserves a small tract of rainforest. The grounds are replete with a temascal, an ancient planetarium and Olmec-themed decorations and replicas. Even though it plays up the contrived indigenous
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Palacio de Gobierno
The neoclassical Palacio de Gobernio looks slightly out of place amid Monterreys modernist and architecturally diverse central strip, but its a stunner.
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