2013 || A Look Back
Twelve images, from a total of 604, recapping 6 months of 2013 travel through North & Central America & Europe.
Chetumal, Yucatán, Mexico
It’s 6 p.m. on my last evening in Mexico. I’m just about ready for tomorrow’s departure to Belize, & thus Central America, just a few kilometres from here. Tonight will be my second night in Chetumal, the capital of Quintana Roo on Mexico’s Yucatán...
Tulum & Cobá, Yucatán, Mexico
I’m coming to the end of my time in Mexico. So soon. It only feels like yesterday when I crossed over the border from San Diego to Tijuana. But it wasn’t yesterday, it was 19 days ago. Anyway, I digress. Tonight is my second & last night in Tulum, my...
Cancún, Yucatán, Mexico
Now for something different, a Mexican Yucatán anomaly. There’s the fascinating pre-Columbian history & ruins. There’s the beautiful colonial legacy of the Spanish. A then there’s Cancun. You won’t find much history here – modern-day Cancun was only built in the...
Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
Chichén Itzá is the Yucatán’s, and thus Mexico’s biggest Mayan draw & was voted in 2007 as one of the New7Wonders of the World. Like most Mayan ruins, Chichén Itzá was settled in about 600 AD & abandoned mysteriously in about 900 AD –...
Uxmal Mayan Ruins, Yucatán, Mexico
Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is Mayan land. It is today and it has been since pre-Hispanic times. The Mayan, members of an American Indian people native to regions of Mesoamerica (Mexico & Central America), had a culture which reached its peak between 300 AD...