Video: Dzibilchaltún as you’ve never seen it before
ByYucatán Magazine
With his trusty camera and scrupulously legal use of our drone, El Gato Volador, (shooting from the highway with a telephoto lens and digitally enhanced), Yucatán Magazine Editor Carlos Rosado van der Gracht has come away with a most fascinating seven-minute video of Dzibilchaltún.
Most visitors make quick work of visiting one of Yucatán’s more intriguing and popular archaeological sites. But for the more adventurous, the site is much more than the famous Temple of the Seven Dolls and its beautiful cenote.
Note: Please like and subscribe to our growing YouTube channel. We really appreciate your support, which helps us continue to bring you quality, independent information about life in Yucatán, Mexico.
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTERDelivered to your inbox every Monday, completely free.
With the El Cuyo Beach Festival just weeks away, hotel operators and tourism businesses in the small coastal town of Yucatán are counting on the event to boost occupancy during the summer vacation season. But persistent power outages and water shortages are tempering their optimism. Municipal authorities have scheduled the festival over two weekends: Friday,…
Dog and cat owners on Mérida’s east side will soon have a new place to take their pets for a checkup. Farmacias Similares has confirmed a location for its veterinary brand, SimiPet Care, at Circuito Colonias and Calle 25-A in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, next to a 24-hour Farmacias Similares location facing CETIS 112. The…
Following damage to the Monumento a la Bandera during the March 8th women’s day protests, specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, conducted a technical inspection of the affected monuments. The findings confirmed that the Monumento a la Patria had sustained serious damage from spray paint, acrylic paint, and adhesive posters. …
The taqueria El Negro does not rely on bright lights or large signage to attract attention. The establishment is modest in size and operates much like a hole-in-the-wall. Inside, you will find only a handful of small tables, which fill up quickly with regulars who know exactly what they came for. The décor is minimal,…
Mérida now has a place to stay that skips the usual hotel room altogether. Kapsul Express bills itself as the only capsule hotel in Mérida. Instead of a standard room, guests book a private sleeping pod, a format that started in Japan decades ago and has slowly made its way into a few Mexican cities….
Green jerseys, waving flags and a fair number of costumes filled the plaza around Mérida’s Monumento a la Patria Tuesday night, as fans didn’t even wait for the final whistle to start celebrating Mexico’s 2-0 win over Ecuador in the World Cup’s round of 32. By the time the match wrapped up at Estadio Azteca…
