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From luxury class to no-plumbing primitive, the Technicolor tropics of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula offer end-of-the-world delights. And it’s practically in our back yard.
Counting the colours on Lake Bacalar was becoming a bit of an obsession. I was sipping coffee on the deck with a young woman who clearly knew her Pantone charts. “That’s Bluefish segueing into Reflex,” she said. It’s easy to see why Bacalar is known as the Laguna de Siete Colores (the lagoon of seven colours).