Frank & Lissette from Canada left Canada in 2014 and have been full-time travelers ever since. Check out what their interview with Amy Jones and she has to say about Merida, Yucatan. Mérida is a popular place for people who are moving to Mexico. But do you know that 50% of expats return to their […]
For the first time, the board of directors of the State Congress is chaired by a Mayan-speaking woman and also from a left-wing party, Neida Araceli Pat Dzul, a deputy from Morena, who was committed by the installing board to fulfill her position, and immediately did the same with her colleagues from the new legislature. […]
Edgar Jiménez, a user of the Maya Train, recounted what it is like to travel on the railroad, according to his experience in the Yucatan Peninsula, as he gave details of the surprises he had on this summer vacation, 6 months ago he had already made a trip and was able to make a comparison: […]
Chinese and Korean migrated to Yucatan by the hundreds in the XIX Century. The great migrations to Yucatecan soil of the 19th century were of Chinese, Koreans and Lebanese, it even reached the point that the Chinese language was the second most spoken in Yucatan, after the Mayan language. There was even a Chinatown behind […]
Exposure to contaminated recreational waters is a public health problem. Fecal contamination is established whenbacteriological assays are positive for total coliforms and Escherichia coli bacteria. This study´s objective was to establish how generalized fecal contamination was in touristic and recreationally used sinkholes in the Yucatan State, Mexico. We used an enzymatic bacteriological assay, Colitag® with […]
Yucatán, Mexico’s safest state is betting big on nearshoring, hoping to attract foreign investors who are weary of the rising criminality and government corruption in other parts of the country. Yucatán, a state that occupies about a third of its namesake peninsula, has historically had low crime in part because it is geographically isolated from […]
Basic Cost of Living update for 2024 Today I break down the basic cost of living here in Mexico without all the bells and whistles. We will be taking a ride through the New Parque La Plancha here in Merida Yucatan and talking about the cost of living increases here in Mexico. #Mexico#costofliving#livinginmexico Join this […]
More than a dozen distilleries across Mexico make the spirit. Of the 59 varieties of native corn in Mexico, nal t’eel is one of the oldest, having emerged in the Yucatán Peninsula some 4,000 years ago. It grows quickly, largely unbothered by heavy rains or drought — so robust that the Mayanscalled it “rooster corn.” […]
The Mexico Daily Post newsroom received a letter from a reader who requested to remain anonymous warning fellow expats and travelers about a certain individual who has been spotted around the city of Mérida, Yucatán, harassing and trying to scam foreign people. I have a little warning. This guy in the pictures goes around Centro […]
It’s rare that I get to interview bestselling authors. Russell is pretty much famous, having sold over 4 million books worldwide in the fiction genre. But he’s also an expert on Mexico and wrote “Retirement Secrets of Mexico” which covers everything you need to know about retiring in Mexico. But this is much more than […]
