Cancun continues to be a favorite destination to escape the cold winter months, new additions across the
Mexican Caribbean promise innovative new stays, exciting activities and delicious flavors throughout the region for 2021.
Hotel Xcaret Arte
Riviera Maya is the
Hotel Xcaret Arte, set to open this summer as an homage to the best of Mexican art and culture, combining warm hospitality and sustainability. Grupo Posadas is adding two sumptuous and stylish properties to the destination as well: the 734-room
Fiesta Americana Tulkal Riviera Maya and the 343-room
Live Aqua Beach Resort Tulkal Riviera Maya. Both will offer a wide range of local and international cuisine and access to Tulkal Convention Center, which features a spectacular ballroom and a magnificent 400-seat theater.
“Men and men are not supposed to be together, Ayala recalled the employee telling him. She was talking about her God, her heritage and her family.
The video also showed the couple standing up for themselves, telling another employee, “She s not supposed to say that. That’s discrimination.
The other employee tried to make it right by saying she has nothing against gay people, but the confrontation continued and Ayala called the police. That s when the employee began to apologize.
However, the damage was done. A woman who says she s the manager of the restaurant told NBC New York that La Isla is a family business and there s no room for discrimination.
By Reena Shah 27 January 2021
I drove to Sarapiquí, a little-known region in Costa Rica, during a brief respite of dry weather between Hurricanes Eta and Iota in search of a miniature tropical bat. Here, conservation efforts big and small are fighting to preserve a lowland tropical rainforest with astonishing biodiversity, including one of the smallest and most adorable mammals:
Ectophylla alba, also known as the Honduran white bat or Caribbean tent-making bat. It was impossible not to coo
I d been warned that these bats aren t always easy to find. They live in selected lowland rainforest habitats from Honduras to eastern Panama. In Costa Rica, I tried my luck at Tirimbina Rainforest Center, a 345-hectare private reserve. At first glance, the neighbourhood seemed an unlikely locale for a rainforest. Pineapple plantations dominated on all sides and spiky green shrubs stretched to the horizon. But tucked away behind an unassuming green gate was an ecological oa
Gemina Garland-Lewis
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A male vermillion flycatcher perches atop an open branch on one of the many charred mesquites on our land, La Isla. Gemina Garland-Lewis
Photographer and explorer, Gemina Garland-Lewis has always been drawn to nature and wildlife. Garland-Lewis takes us through her journey of growing to love bird photography alongside her partner on their land, nicknamed La Isla, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
As I sit with my back against a charred, fallen palm tree, I can t help but hear my mother s words in my head: I hope you don t like birds now just because of a guy. My eyes alert as I scan for various woodpeckers and sparrows, camera in hand, and I wonder if there may be some truth in what she said.