Happiness Is Just Around The Bend

During my recent trip to Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico, I was fascinated by the cenotes.  I am sure you have heard about them before.  Just in case, let me clarify what they are. A cenote is a deep natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Although a lot of them follow this description, some of them also exist at the bottom of caves.  They are characteristic of the Yucatan Peninsula.  However, they occur in other part of Mexico and Central America.  Sinkholes in other parts of the world are sometimes called cenotes (even though they are not technically cenotes). Today, I want to present you photos of four of the cenotes I visited while touring Mexico.  Hopefully, you will understand why I am so attracted to this magical holes or spots.   S acred Cenote at Chichen Itza This is probably one of the most famous and visited cenotes. It is a huge hole with white walls and greenish water.  You feel really small ...

My first great trip was a month visiting Europe and Egypt after I finished my undergraduate degree.  Let me tell you the months before the trip were filled with many moments of disbelief.  I mean, I was going to visit Italy, Greece and Egypt.  All those places were fundamental to the development of what we know today as Western society.  I was going to visit the Coliseum, the Parthenon and the Great Pyramids.  Those were reasons enough to get various episodes of goose bumps every day. However, the trip was not all famous landmarks and huge tourist sites.  There were some obscure places that not so many people know about.  I guess the trip planners wanted to keep a balance between known and unknown, between bursting and sleepy.  And thank God for those planners or at least to the person who had the great idea of adding to the schedule a stop near the town of Kalambaka in Greece.  Kalam-what? I said Ka-lam-ba-ka.  This is a small town located in central Greece.  But Kalambaka is just t...