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Tales from the Yucatán
by Jeanine Kitchel

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Tales from the Yucatšn

FLICKR ALBUM: Lessons from Mexico


Jeanine Lee Kitchel has written more than a dozen features based on her physical and armchair travels in the Yucatán Peninsula.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeanine Lee Kitchel writes about Mexico, the Yucatan and the Maya. Her travel memoir Where the Sky is Born: Living in the Land of the Maya, is now available on Kindle from Amazon.com. Jeanine is a frequent contributor to Planeta with her series Tales from the Yucatán. Updates on the Planeta Wiki! Contact Jeanine via email.

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INDEX

g Gringo Madness: Opening A Bookstore In Mexico
- Imagine transporting 10,000 used books from San Francisco to Puerto Morelos and then trying to clear customs without the proper paperwork ... (03/99)

g Puerto Morelos: Straddling Two Worlds
- Without even the dignity of a road sign to announce its existence, this village is a throwback to Mexican towns of old ... (03/99)

g "The Lost World of Quintana Roo"
- It is impossible to believe that just 40 years ago Quintana Roo was "the most savage and wild coast of the American continent." ... (07/99)

g What Price Paradise?
- Lauded as the last of its kind, like a species racing towards extinction, Puerto Morelos quietly awaits its fate ... (04/01)

g Pyramids along the Puuc Route
- The road that follows this Mayan trail is so dotted with pyramids, one almost tires of seeing the breath-taking structures ... (04/02)

g Coming Full Circle
- Finding "The Lost World of Quintana Roo" leads Jeanine across the pond ... (05/02)

g Magnificent Merida
- Merida gained its wealth not from a mineral source but from an agricultural source ... (01/03)

g Caste War of the Yucatán
- The Caste War made it impossible for a light-skinned person to walk into the eastern Yucatán and come out alive ... (03/03)

g B. Traven: Man of Mystery
- B. Traven was long a cult figure and an international man of mystery ... (04/03)

g Borderline Belize
- Tales from a no-man's land in between Mexico and Belize ... (01/04)

g Alma Reed and Felipe Carrillo Puerto: Tragic Romance of the Yucatán
- The unlikely outcome of this very public romance enlisted all the elements of Greek tragedy ... (05/04)

g Quintana Roo's Pirates of the Caribbean
- Ahoy, matie! There's treasure to be found in the Yucatán ... (06/04)

g The Caste War, the Church of the Speaking Cross, and the Cruzob Maya
- After the Caste War, it's difficult to determine who won.... (09/04)

g Explorers: Edward Herbert Thompson
- Most famous for dredging Chichén-Itzá's sacred cenote in 1904, Thompson's exploits were pure textbook archeology ... (11/04)

g Explorers: John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood
- John Lloyd Stephens, along with artist Frederick Catherwood, braved the jungles of Yucatán, to become the first English speaking travelers to explore this region ... (02/05)

g The Other Side of Chichén-Itzá: Was It the First "Cancún?"
- Is Chichén-Itzá one of the Maya's most revered and renowned pyramid sites or a glorified shrine-museum concocted by slick politicos to reap tourist dollars? ... (03/05)

g Sylvanus Morley: The Explorer Who Put Chichén-Itzá on the Map
Morley proposed a 20-year plan to restore Chichén-Itzá, one of the Maya's greatest ceremonial centers, to its former grandeur and to invite tourists to become a part of that mix ... (09/05)

g After the Hurricane
"Hotel Eden is closed," the owner of the no frills cement block structure informed me. "We're evacuating our employees. Puerto Morelos could be point zero. Again." ... (12/05)

g Coba: So Near and Yet So Far
A breather from the teeming masses of tourists at Tulum, Coba (which means "water stirred by wind" in Maya) is apparently last on the list of must-see spots for travelers. But Coba exudes a "romancing the stone" feel, perhaps because it is only ten percent excavated, or maybe because it's located in thick, low jungle. ... (03/06)

g How the margarita got its name
Was there a Margarita behind the Margarita? Of course. But contrary to what you may have imagined, this woman was not a Mexican beauty, but instead a fledgling Hollywood starlet ... (05/06)

g Leona Vicario and Cancún's Arboretum
Long known as a garden spot, Leona Vicario becomes a pilgrimage for every Cancún homeowner with a green thumb ... (07/07)

g Mexico's Marvels: Cenotes
(08/07)

g Cooking It Up in the Yucatán
(11/08)

g Valladolid: A Yucatan City with a Past
(03/09)

g Dreamweavers of Time
(04/09)

g Explorers of the Yucatan: Augustus and Alice LePlongeon
(12/11)

g The Lost World of Quintana Roo author Michel Peissel Dies
(12/11)

 


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