Where does all the water go? Where do our drains, toilets, sinks, and showers empty into?
Unfortunately the answer is not a very good one! The average hotel guest creates 65 gallons of water waste per day, and when we multiply that by how many visitors that come to Playa del Carmen, we are talking about millions of gallons of water waste, per day, that have no where to go. But wait, not all is lost, there are solutions, but they take a commitment to and from our community.....
Every Sunday we try to find a new cenote to enjoy or a secret beach to explore. And this Sunday was no different.
Four of us piled into our car with snacks and beer in the cooler, and we headed out into the great blue yonder. A friend had told us of the “road with 30 cenotes” that was just outside of Playa del Carmen about 30 minutes or so. So that was our destination, to cenote hop all Sunday afternoon, what a way to spend the day huh?
Mexico -- B. Traven was long a cult figure by the time I stumbled onto his legendary adventure novels about Mexico when I traveled the gringo trail in the 70s. It seemed everyone on the road in those days had a copy of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre stuffed into their backpack along with a Spanish-English phrase book.
Why were B. Traven's books required reading for anyone traveling south? First of all, most of Traven's 14 novels, written between 1926 to 1952, were set in Mexico. His themes paralleled what was happening in that country during those traumatic, revolutionary times. Traven's tales were part adventure, part historical fact, couched in fiction, all taking place south of the border in a land very different from what we've grown accustomed to up north. Secondly, his Mexico was a place where abandoned gold mines, bandits and lawlessness still existed. His Mexico was peppered with anarchy and rebellion. His Mexico had spice.
Please take action to support and protect our local environment and ecosystems! Dive Aventuras in Puerto Aventuras are doing their part and now we must do ours!
We are seeking your assistance and support to help us protect our local reef. The disaster that visited us last week is scheduled to occur weekly through March, 2005.
Hi everyone, I hope your holidays are as good as it is here in Playa. We finished making dreams come true for more than 300 children. Thank you all. We are still working on Santa by surprise for the 24th.
Don’t let your support stop here; we have many more projects we are working on.
You can help with giving the gift of sound for more than 800 children and adults in the state of Quintana Roo...............
The lighter side of living in ……the tropics at Christmas!
By: Suzanne
Happy holidays! I really feel like Christmas now. The snow is gently falling......wait a minute.....that's Shawn and the kids throwing sand in the air.
Ha! Next they will be telling me that is Santa's yacht out there.....I know better - it can't be Santa he's busy at the north pole.
Anyway everybody knows Santa while in Mexico likes to swing from house to house through the palm trees. It drives the reindeer nuts.
The following article, written in 2002 by Jeanine Lee Kitchel, former owner of Alma Libre Libros in Puerto Morelos, details how she became interested in travel to Quintana Roo.
Full Circle "The Lost World of Quintana Roo"
By: Jeanine Kitchel
MEXICO -- I first ventured to this region in the early 1980s, long before Cancun had earned a reputation as a must-see tourist resort and the region had been dubbed the Riviera Maya.
How did I "discover" Mexico's Quintana Roo?
While living near San Francisco, my home for 20 years, I happened onto a book at a garage sale titled "The Lost World of Quintana Roo"' by Frenchman Michel Peissel. Although the book was (and is) long out of print, the adventure it told of the author, then a 21-year old Harvard business graduate, who walked from northern Quintana Roo near Puerto Morelos to Belize in 1958 fascinated me and triggered a trip to the Mexican Yucatan.
It is the Christmas Season – Know the Mexican tradition
The first thing to know about celebrating Christmas in Mexico is that most everybody takes off the last two weeks in December - to party, spend more time with the family, visit with old friends, even make new friends. So get any business you need done early in the month!
One of the biggest fiestas of the year - in small towns, big cities, the beach resorts, everywhere - Christmas in Mexico is celebrated in a variety of ways...
One Saturday morning, December 9, 1531, a Mexican native named Juan Diego was walking along the mountain path to the city of Tlatelolco. Along the way he heard a voice that called out to him, "My son, Juan Diego, where are you going?" "I'm going to mass at the church in Thatelolco," he responded. The voice said, "Go to the Bishop of Mexico and tell him that I am Mary, Mother of God, and tell him that I want a church built here."
The Bishop did not believe what Juan Diego told him about the voice. However, once again while walking home; Juan Diego heard the Virgin call out to him in the same place. She repeated the request for a church to be built ...............
Please Note: Our local procession takes place December 11th – The procession will be starting at the Gala Hotel in Playacar and will end at the main church in Playa del Carmen.
The adventure of foreigners running a Mexican hotel
Tuesday, 07 December 2004
By: Mari Mulrooney
What is it like to run a small hotel on a beautiful white sand beach in the Riviera Maya?
My husband and I arrived in Tulum last November after making arrangements with our friend to live in his family casita behind his restaurant and hotel called Vista al Mar. In the interim, the hotel had been sold to a man from our home state of Colorado. He agreed to honor the arrangement with the original owner and allow us to live in the casita and, as a bonus, we could run the hotel until he was ready to begin the remodel; that would turn out to be the fabulous property now known as the Mezzanine ...
by Jeanine Kitchel
From: LaVonna Redman, Director, Angel Notion
The lighter side of living in ……the tropics at Christmas!
The following article, written in 2002 by Jeanine Lee Kitchel, former owner of Alma Libre Libros in Puerto Morelos, details how she became interested in travel to Quintana Roo.
By: Irma Lovinit
The Virgin of Guadalupe
By: Mari Mulrooney