Dog owners in Mérida caught walking their pets without a leash in public spaces can now be fined up to MX$50,000 (approximately US$2,700) under municipal regulations that authorities have begun actively enforcing following a viral dog attack during the city’s Sunday Biciruta. The incident that prompted the renewed enforcement occurred during the weekly bicycle route…
Lizards, geckos, and iguanas are part of everyday life in Yucatán and can be seen everywhere from inside the home to gardens and archaeological sites like Uxmal. Unlike other critters who love the heat like cockroaches and scorpions, no variety of lizard in Yucatán is poisonous, and what is even better, they love eating bugs. …
The Candelaria River runs from Guatemala into the Gulf of Mexico through its many tributaries and is extremely rich in its biodiversity. Despite its undeniable charm, natural beauty, and long history, saying that Candelaria flies under the radar would be an understatement. But a couple of years ago, Candelaria’s status as a remote, hard-to-reach community…
Does Mesoamerican really exist? The answer: it’s complicated.
Some species of flowers in Yucatán don’t just survive during heat and drought, but thrive.
While shopping malls in the United States and Europe face declining foot traffic and store closures, Mexico continues to see a wave of new mall construction. Retail sales in the country rose 4.4% year-on-year in November 2025, and 15 new malls were planned for 2025 alone. Few places illustrate this trend better than Mérida, Yucatán,…
From the very beginning, the Mayan Train was ambitious. Perhaps too ambitious, in fact. The $30 billion rail project—more than three times over budget—has faced a long list of fair criticisms: environmental damage, potential structural risks, cost overruns, and allegations of corruption. But without discounting these many problems, the Tren Maya is at last…
Itzamkanac, also known as El Tigre, was once the great capital of the Maya Acalán-Tixchel region. Today, four of Itzamkanac’s main plazas have been restored and are open to the public, but are seldom visited by tourists. The history of Itzamkanac dates back to the 6th Century B.C.E. and extends all the way to the…
Mexican Lotería is not a complex game. Its modern form, a tabletop game of chance, functions much like Bingo. A cantor (caller) draws a card featuring an image and a name. Players cover the matching image on their tabla (board). The first player to complete a pre-agreed pattern—a row, a diagonal, or four corners—shouts “¡Lotería!”…
Other than human beings, Yucatán is home to two species of primates, these being howler and spider monkeys.
The markets of Oaxaca City are not designed for tourists. They are the city’s working kitchens and warehouses, places where the business of feeding a community happens. To walk through the Mercado Benito Juárez or the sprawling Tlacolula market is to experience the city’s raw ingredients without any filter. This is not to say that…
Before angry emails flood in, let’s clarify. The sacred mountain interpretation isn’t wrong; it’s overly stretched. The evidence for mountain symbolism at certain sites, especially among the Mexica at Tenochtitlan and at Postclassic Tlaloc shrines, is strong. However, calling every stepped pyramid or large structure a “sacred mountain” without specifying which mountain, which deity, which…
Conchas (Spanish for “shell”) is a traditional Mexican sweet bread known for its round shape and striped, seashell-like appearance. It consists of two parts: a soft, fluffy bread roll similar to brioche, and a crunchy topping made from flour, butter, and sugar. This topping is scored before baking to create the shell pattern. It is…
Yucatán has produced several well-known brands with long histories, many of which have been continuously operating for well over a century and have become staples across the world. Surely, while reading this list, readers will think to themselves, “How could they not mention X brand here?” So, let us know, and maybe it will make…
Its not a fast car, nor a particularly safe one, but for over half a century, the Volkswagen Beetle (Vocho) was the king of Mexican roads.
After Mexico City and Cancun, Monterrey has the most flights of any other city in Mexico, which means getting there is very easy. This is true not just of other major hubs like Cancun, but also of other cities in the Yucatán Peninsula, such as Mérida and San Miguel de Cozumel. Now, let’s get this…
Nojpetén holds a special place in Mesoamerican history as one of the last Maya polities to remain independent
The name of Jacinto Canek is one that most in Yucatán are familiar with. He is widely remembered as a rebel, but as centuries passed, the details of his life and deeds have faded into a symbol rather than an actual person. Jacinto Canek was born around 1731 in the San Román neighborhood of…
Unlike the all-inclusive resorts of the Riviera Maya or the cruise ship crowds in Progreso, Sisal has taken a more sustainable
path.
When the pods of the great ceiba tree split open each spring on the Yucatán Peninsula, something remarkable happens. Thousands of fluffy white seeds burst forth and take to the air, drifting across roads, fields, and village plazas. Locals have a name for these floating tufts: “gatitos,” which means “little kittens.” The name is fitting. The soft,…
The Museo de los Antiguos Mexicanos, which opened in San Pedro Garza García, on the outskirts of Nuevo León, less than a year ago, is the first museum in Nuevo León dedicated entirely to pre-Hispanic archaeology. This in itself is odd, especially when we consider that Nuevo León is one of the wealthiest states in…
In the heart of Monterrey’s Parque Fundidora, a massive terracotta building houses the country’s most important tribute to baseball. The Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano (Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame) opened in 2019, offering a modern alternative to the static, velvet-rope museums that typically define sports history. Here, the exhibits are not just…
In Yucatán, the hammock is not simply a place to sleep. For many families, it represents something far more significant.
Fernando Delgadillo González emerged from the underground SEIMUS Collective in the late 1980s and built a career on his own terms, famously coining the term canción informal (Informal Song) to describe his refusal to conform to commercial record labels’ demands. For over three decades, Delgadillo has remained a significant figure in Latin American folk and…
That’s all for now
That’s all for now