Category: Budget Travel, Family Travel, Mexico Hotels, Playa Del Carmen by carla_guillermo | 0 comments

Just like the hotel Habita and Deseo, owners Carlos Couturier and the Micha Family once again give rise to the exclusive Hotel Básico in Playa del Carmen. You will truly enjoy your stay with Marisqueria’s taco as well as the metal and fiberglass furniture that covers the hotel. With its renovated water storage tanks, the hotel made pools where you can either be shocked or thrilled upon finding another guest with you.

Of minimalist inspiration, the 15-roomed hotel has above the average style that took comfort for granted. There is a constant street noise as well as public discomfort from other guest’s behavior.
Category: Budget Travel, Family Travel, Holidays, Mexico Hotels, Riviera Maya by carla_guillermo | 0 comments

At the Playa Xcalacoco, even the ongoing Mayan constructions cannot distract the incomparable beauty that Tides Riviera Maya has to offer. In the midst of natural ecosystems like beach and the jungle, The Viceroy hotel Group was able to build a man-made paradise.

Equipped with marble showers in the bathrooms, branded toiletries, high-quality bed sheets, and canopied beds, private pools, beach beds and accessories, you would truly fall in love with the Tides. The alluring beach and the indulging spas would pamper your craving for relaxation and fun as well as the wines and native dishes presented for your dining options.
Category: Budget Travel, Cozumel, Family Travel, Holidays, Mexico Hotels by carla_guillermo | 0 comments

If nature-tripping is what you are up to and the idea of living with the sea thrills you, then Ventanas al Mar would be your best option for a vacation. In the solace of this place you can find surprising meteor showers in the middle of the night or a nesting sea turtle on the nearby sea shore.

Being powered by wind turbines and natural wells for water, you will realize that this is a home away from your home while eating breakfast at the kitchen patio. You would not feel any isolation even if this is the only hotel on the Cozumel’s windward coast because you will enjoy your stay. With 12 rooms and two suites, this place will surely give you both privacy and contentment.
Category: Budget Travel, Family Travel, Merida, Mexico Hotels by carla_guillermo | 0 comments

If you want to be fully pampered, brace yourself for the Villa at Mirida. With its architectural style that manifests luxury and elegance to entertaining mexican-Canadian staff, this wonderful place is truly worth a visit. The courtyard fountain as well as the tropical garden that you could view from your own room balcony will make you crave for more fantastic scenes.

This 19th century estate previously owned by a nobleman complement the nearby historical place of barrio de Santiago. The seven rooms are carefully designed with tile flooring, mahogany beds, well-painted walls and high-quality bed sheets. You can also hang-out at the bar-lounge where you can request food of your choice to the friendly chef.
Category: Beaches In Mexico, Budget Travel, Family Travel, Forests, Lagoons, Lakes by daphne reyes | 0 comments

Touring isn’t just about the views and visiting landmarks and historical places. It’s also about doing activities that is best done here than anywhere else. A couple of things that I suggest you do are below.
Water Taxi Rides in Cabo
These water taxi rides can be so much fun and can take you from the marina down to Medana beach and even to a place called Lover’s Beach, which is on the very tip of the Cabo Peninsula. These water taxi boats have glass bottoms that help passengers see the fish that are swimming underfoot, a wonderful sight for children and adults to see.
Jungle Excursions in Puerto Vallarta
You should try and visit Yelapa, which can be reached by foot, by boat, or by mountain biking. This beach village is home to a jungle, a waterfall, and rivers that give you the jungle lifestyle that is uniquely Puerto Vallarta. Also, part of the Puerto Vallarta jungle experience is the canopy tour that gets you to see the flora and the fauna of the region in what may be your most exciting jungle adventure yet. You will be zipped above the treetops to see these wonders and more.
If you don’t enjoy this, I don’t know what else would please you. These things can be done here and here alone.
Category: Budget Travel, Family Travel, Mexican Food by daphne reyes | 0 comments

Tamales begin with a dough made from nixtamalized corn, called masa, and are generally wrapped in corn husks or plantain leaves before cooking, depending on the region from which they come from. They usually have a sweet or savory filling and are typically steamed until firm. Tamales are a favorite comfort food in mexico, eaten as both breakfast and dinner, and often accompanied by hot Atole or Champurrado, maize-based beverages of indigenous origin. Street vendors can be seen in every corner serving them from huge, steaming, covered pots (tamaleras). The most common fillings are pork and chicken, in either red or green salsa or mole. Another very traditional variation is to add pink colored sugar to the corn mix and fill it with raisins or other dried fruit and make a sweet tamal (tamal de dulce). There are commonly a few “deaf”, or filling-less, tamales (tamal sordo), which might be served with refried beans and coffee.
Tamales is one of the representatives of mexican culinary tradition in Europe, being one of the first samples of the culture that the Spanish conquistadors took back to Spain as proof of civilization.
Category: Budget Travel, Family Travel, Holidays by daphne reyes | 0 comments

The Jarabe Tapatío, the mexico Hat dance, in its standardized form was first choreographed by the mexican Felipa Lopez. It was created to celebrate a government-sponsored fiesta that commemorated the successful end of the Mexican Revolution. It became a folk dance popular in Mexico and the Southwestern United States and symbolizes the national pride and honor of the Mexican people.
I tells the story of love and courtship. It’s usually performed by a couple or a group of couples. A charro, dressed in the traditional charro suit, a three-piece suit composed of a vest, jacket, and pants bearing silver buttons down the seam), makes initial courtship gestures to la china. They flirt throughout the beginning of the dance while the man attempts to woo the woman with his zapateado (stamping and tapping) and his machismo. The man tries impresses the woman until he becomes drunk with glory, and is shooed away as a borracho, but ultimately, he succeeds in conquering the china, throwing his hat to the ground and kicking his leg over his partner’s head as she bends down to pick it up. The two then does a triumphant march to a military tune called a Diana. The dance ends with the couple hiding their faces behind the man’s sombrero in a feigned kiss.