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Archivo para 2007

Snorkeling & Scuba Diving in Cabo San Lucas

Several companies offer snorkeling; a 2-hour cruise to sites around El Arco costs $30, and a 4-hour trip to Santa María costs $55, including gear rental. Among the beaches visited on different trips are Playa de Amor, Santa María, Chileno, and Barco Varado. Snorkeling gear rents for $10 to $15. Contact Gray Line (tel. 624/146-9410).
For […]

Posteado en Martes 18 de Diciembre, 2007 - Tagged as Adventure Tourism in Mexico, | Deja un Comentario

Mexican mountains offer spectacular hikes to see monarch butterflies

If you’d rather see butterflies on a mountaintop than slather yourself with sunblock on a tourist-packed beach in Cancun, Mexico is an ideal winter destination.Ecotourism is drawing fans in the central states of Michoacan and Mexico, thanks to the spectacular yearly migration of millions of orange-and-black-winged monarch butterflies.
In delicate swarms, the butterflies head south from […]

Posteado en Martes 18 de Diciembre, 2007 - Tagged as Ecotourism in Mexico, | Deja un Comentario

Historic Cabo San Lucas

Sports and partying are Cabo’s main attractions, but there are also a few cultural and historical points of interest. The Spanish missionary Nicolás Tamaral established the stone Iglesia de San Lucas (Church of San Lucas) on Calle Cabo San Lucas, close to the main plaza, in 1730. A large bell in a stone archway commemorates […]

Posteado en Lunes 10 de Diciembre, 2007 - Tagged as Cultural Tourism in Mexico, | Deja un Comentario

Dive Sites in Mexico: Anegada

On the edge of the Submarine Canyon that forms San Lucas Bay. Beautiful wall dive to small sandfall at around 90′.
Large congregations of big and small tropicals. Slopes covered with gorgonians and gracefull sea fans. Not unusual to spot rays and big fish swimming out of nearby deeper water.
Also an excellent night dive, The Bay […]

Posteado en Martes 4 de Diciembre, 2007 - Tagged as Adventure Tourism in Mexico, | Deja un Comentario

Mexico invests US$4.6 million to boost tourism in bid to protect monarch butterflies

Mexico announced a plan Sunday to pump pesos into a monarch butterfly reserve to boost tourism and create jobs in an impoverished area where illegal logging threatens the monarch’s habitat.
The 50 million peso (US$4.6 million, €3.1 million) plan will buy equipment and advertising for the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 124,000-acre (50,180-hectare) wooded park in […]

Posteado en Martes 27 de Noviembre, 2007 - Tagged as Ecotourism in Mexico, | Deja un Comentario