To live through the Holy Week in Mexico

If you have thought, or you have already reserved your trip to Mexico in Holy Week, to be prepared yourselves, because in the Mexican country one lives the holiday of the Holy Week as an authentic holiday in family.

For example, the children have no classes for two weeks, in what it turns into a few marvelous holidays for all the Mexicans. Many people are the Mexican businessmen also who give to his workpeople an extra pay for Holy Week, with what most of the Mexicans count the hours that are missing for the Holy Week, and this way a kidling happens escapadita to the beach.

So, if you go in Holy Week to Mexico, and you are many people in the beach, do not worry. It is the most normal thing in these dates. Already for the next time you will know that Mexico in Holy Week is full of the people.

If you do not go to the beach areas, the Mexican Holy Week fills with processions and other celebrations of popular interest. Every village and every city of the interior of the country celebrates the Passion, Death and Christ's Resurrection. Nevertheless, not in all the places the traditions and the celebrations are the same.

In Mexico the Holy Week begins the Palm Sunday, and practically in all the cities Jesus's Entry in Jerusalem enjoys itself. During the rest of the week, the churches and temples prepare themselves to live through the Resurrection on Sunday of Easter. The Maundy Thursday takes place a special mass, to celebrate the day of the Last Dinner.

The special Maundy Thursday mass takes place especially at the end of the afternoon, in that the water and the oil are blessed at the time of receiving the communion. This night he devotes himself in Mexico to reflect on the human humility.

The Holy Friday is a day of mourning, for Jesus's death in the Cross. In some places a Judas burns himself on Saturday of Glory, nevertheless it is not a widespread custom. What yes is proper of all the Mexican cities is the bells peal the Easter Sunday in the morning, when he announces the Easter of the Gentleman to himself.

So much if you go to the area of the coast, as if you go to the interior of Mexico, you can live through the Holy Week of two different ways.

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Honeymoon in the Santa Cruz Islands

Are you looking for a place in the Caribbean Sea to spend your honeymoon?. The truth that there are many and very good destinations, but today we want to propose the very interesting one to you. It is a question of the paradisiac Santa Cruz Islands.

Here you will find many accommodation options, even rent apartments to be calmer, intimate and comfortable. There are possibilities of accommodations inside the water, like those that they usually see in the photos, or accommodations on foot of beach. And if you go of honeymoon, nothing more that you have to say it, and they will put everything to you in salver.

The beaches of the Santa Cruz Islands are fabulous. You can choose accommodation with a view to the sea, or not, since they are more private and interior, with interior swimming pool, like those of North Shore in the island of Buck.

The apartments that you will have here are close to the beaches, the golf courses, and consist of room of being with everything necessary, completely equipped kitchens and two bedrooms, in addition to baths. The apartments usually have access to Internet, washer, dryer and iron.

To do even more lively your honeymoon, in any of the Santa Cruz Islands it is possible to dive, to go fishing in open sea, to play the golf, the tennis, to do senderismo, to go shopping, to go out night and to play in the casinos. There are many routes of holding a permit senderismo, which last approximately three hours and a half, at the cost of 45 dollars. Also you can do kayak for the Salty Rio, and do a tour for some of the places to which Cristóbal Columbus came more than 500 years ago.

If all this was turning out to be small to you, also you can walk on horseback with the company Paul and Jill's Stables. After everything, the tired thing does not import that you could be, since then you can approach Ambrosia Body Care, placed to a few minutes of your apartments, and relax with a meeting of baths and massages.
How véis, perhaps should not you know too much the Santa Cruz Islands, but we can say to you that it is an ideal destination for those that want to begin with good foot his new life of married. A honeymoon in this paradise captivates anyone.

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Red end; collection of flat virgins

We are going to cover a few only places for lovers of the Caribbean Sea, of the calmness and the adventure, far from the global, slightly different tourism to disconnect really of the civilization and of the cement. Natural beaches à la carte.

Spa of Anchovy

To the South-west of the smallest island of the big Antilles, Puerto Rico, we find an area of the only beaches, without scarcely building, practically virgins: Red end. To come so far is not so simple as to go to any tourist destination, but neither it is a typical place full of pother, thongs and cars. His beach areas are real natural refuges and protected jewels, there are no scarcely buildings, in all of them a fishermen's area, with wooden houses in almost all the cases, a small port and a forest green space.
Here the whole year is hot, but there is always breeze, to difference with the north, hardly ever it rains and at once one accustoms the body to be lived without almost clothes and to be in continuous contact with the nature. A sky intensely blue, without almost clouds and the radiant and giant sun, they do that the lighting is something special, without a pollution atom, and with the animal kingdom next to us.

Anchovy

This beach is most known perhaps by his activities, it is the fishermen's most ancient people, it is necessary to think about a small placita with a bar, giving to the small pier, has no port, the longboats are left opened in the sea. A street of which they salt several, there are no hotels, houses exist to rent, small hotels of Bungalows, huts and cheap hotels. It is a romantic, calm place but simultaneously exciting and very differently from everything. Some Americans inhabit it the whole year, the people who went to forget the civilized world and the pother, craftsmen who do costume jewelry, and the people that when you return they recognize because they take the whole life there. The tourism is of the proper island mostly, it comes a little of USA. the people who has there detached houses for veranear and to spend weekends, that's why there are several bridges as in Holy Week that the people fills, but skylight many people do not need, at once it is evident. The people ends where it begins the beach, therefore it is in fact a spa opened on both parts but controlled in the center that is a forest green space, neither cars nor motorbikes can be left there and it is necessary to unload the motorboats or longboats in the small port that consists only of a ramp.
They have the holiday of the large oyster, like reference to couples and the people with march desire. During the day the activities are tremendous, there are longboats and sailing ships to rent or to bring in in an excursion, with trips to islands and other beaches of a handsomeness without equal, beaches of those that we already see, without buildings, alone palm trees and without agglomerations nor agglomerated hammocks, there you have to wear the chair.
Diving, fishing, a big variety of sports and activities but with very different, not so tourist ambience.
The language is not a problem, the whole world is bilingual, the prices are very accessible for the change and because they are not so high as in the capitals.
You will see the people buying in the tables of adornments, hoops, rings, bracelets and clothes surfera, the bar has always musical out and well cold beer without need to enter, skylight also all kinds of drinks and combinations exquisite daiquiris and mojitos, but the queen is the beer, the marks protect and sponsor these holidays.

To get dark in restaurant on the sea

In the square you see how they bring the oysters, they are smaller than those of our seas, a warmer water, but much saborosas. They put in big tables of wood and buys a dozen, open them to you there same and as they give them to you you eat up them, without plate or napkins, this way with lemon. To the beginning of the beach there is only one I besiege to eat, it might call him a refreshment stall, but it does not come to that, they sell beer, living lobsters to do them to you in the moment, oysters and fish, nothing more, it is the richest, cheap and with miles of sea ahead. To eat or to have dinner we have the typical restaurants, big surfaces constructed on wooden columns inside the water, it goes over to a footbridge. The night is perfect to bathe, and to keep on having a drink, a holiday is created in the same street, with meringue, sauce, cumbias and vallenatos. It can be one very romantic and spectacular night, all this on foot, without motorcars.

From Anchovy we can cover several beaches according to the time that we arrange to ourselves and how much I won the love to us of his beach and his peace.

Beach Buyé

Beach Buyé
To few kilometers we find with help a solitary beach, of a spectacular beauty, to stay only there are huts, it has very few inhabitants, and also it is a beach of palm trees and a forest area without buildings, his waters are of a turquoise intensely that he wins the love.

The Combat

This is a beach with swimmers' major inflow, it has a big parking lot and beach area with more pother and many other services, all kinds of sports, islanders who bring to you the cold cherry, cold coconuts with rum, even lobster, but there are neither bars nor refreshment stalls close, of course a lot of music, motorboats and longboats. In the restaurants of the people the fish and the beer are the kings of the mambo.

Isla Ratones, Joyuda

Joyuda
This beach contributes big spaces, coves and a long beach, in addition to rocky areas to dive it is perfect, a calm and blue waters and a big fish collection. Isla Ratones faces he waits for you to happen one day or a few hours, there is available longboats and a barquito that goes and comes. The meal is exceptional, there are no supermarkets, the fish is usually of the same morning and they cook it to you there same, there are restaurants of all kinds, elegant and more familiar open seas. It is an Eden.

There are more beaches and corners worth visiting, but the area is quite extensive and with much to see and especially to do, but as we were saying in another ambience, with another rhythm and another beauty, it is the only and exceptional trip to cover it in the time that let's want to designate to every thing, but with the safety of never wanting to go from there.

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He visits the caves of the Bermudas

The Bermudas are known especially by his wonderful climate, the relaxing sun that sounds in the sky in any moment of the year, his crystalline waters and his beaches of golden sand. But: is this everything what we can find in the Bermudas?.

The Bermudas there is one of the places where we can find more caves of the world. These caves have been forming with the step of the centuries by means of the erosion of the water, which has been sculpting in the lime rock a series of cavities and tunnels, by what most of these caves are connected by the sea.

Many of these caves of the Bermudas lodge in his interior impressive works of art in the shape of stalactites and stalagmites. Also, they contain very curious rocky formations, some of them of big size, and lagoons and ponds of deep waters, rich in minerals and precious stones.

The result of all this has provoked that the caves of the Bermudas have turned into last years in real tourist attractions for all those who approach so far. You not to have left only knocked down in the beach, but to discover the natural treasure that stays at the entrails of the island.

Of all the caves that can be seen in the Bermudas, some of them stand out for his beauty and splendor. We have to recommend to you the visit to the Cave Cathedral and the Cave Prosperously, two caves you join, connected under the water, which is characterized by his blue lagoons turquoise. Curiously, inside the Cave Prosperous there is a bar and even a discotheque.

Perhaps one of the best caves that we could visit be the Caves of Crystal and the Caves of the Fantasy, in addition to the Cave of Leamington, famous by his formations of crystalline rocks and his underground swimming pools.

All the previous caves are in the area known as Hamilton Parish.

Another possibility is to visit the caves placed in Smith's Parish, like for example Devil's Hole, a species of natural aquarium where they live through fish, eels and turtles. The name of Devil's Hole, or Hole of the Devil, comes from the curious and unusual sounds that the water does when it penetrates in the cavities of the rocks, that some of them say that they look alike to the groans of the Devil.

Not that to say has that, if you have the opportunity to spend your holidays in the Bermudas, you have to approach to see these wonderful caves. A world completely different from what you will be used to be seen in the surface. It will be like doing a trip to the center of the ground in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.

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The Nature reserve of the Mountains Macaw in Honduras

Honduras is a country with a really surprising natural wealth. On not having been perhaps so well-known, it provokes that the astonishment is major. There is a city, Copán, where we can enjoy a natural paradise where the birds are his principal protagonists.

Precisely to only five minutes of Cobread, in the Mountains of Macaw, we will find this birds paradise. In addition to being known by his magnificent Mayan ruins, They Corner it is a luxury for the lovers of the birds, which come here to visit his Nature reserve. If you come so far you will be captivated by the big quantity of footpaths that has this reservation, it fills of the most exotic birds of the Caribbean Sea.

Curiously, these birds that are in the Mountains of Macaw have been donated by persons who have wished them to these birds a better life. Once recovered, they are left at large, in a really surprising natural habitat.

The best thing of everything is that it is possible to walk perfectly along the Mountains Macaw to see these birds, since it is provided with footpaths and perfectly signposted wooden footbridges, and easily accessible also for persons with disability. The park is full of green spaces and natural spaces to take a few fantastic pictures. It is not strange that the birds approach to look round you, ideal moment for a snapshot.

You can throw yourselves to the adventure and cover the park on horseback. And if you come in summer, and you spend some heat, nothing better than to bathe in the river, surrounded with an extraordinary nature.

You can stop at the time of the meal to take a short rest in the Coffee Miramundo, where the coffee that is prepared toasts and is realized to the traditional way. The plantation of coffee that exists in the park will allow you even, if you are lucky, to see how it stands firm and the coffee is gathered. The coffee has a wooden patio with a view to the park.

What you do not know is that this nature reserve has a long history, which comes up to the Mayan, who were somewhere here between 600 and 1.500. Birds as the quetzals, the herons and the macaws have always been big symbols for the Maya, and have not stopped appearing in his artistic declarations.

Without going further, in the Mayan ruins of Copán, in Honduras, you will see many of these birds reflected, therefore, in addition to the natural beauty, the historical transcendency of this place is necessary to join him.

If you want to visit the Nature reserve of the Mountains Macaw you can do it every day, in schedule from 09.00 until 17.00 hours, and at the cost of 10 dollars for person.

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Surfing in El Salvador, the cheapest of the Caribbean Sea

The lovers of the surfing have in the Caribbean Sea a big quantity to enjoy. Nevertheless, a calm and very cheap place to practise yours sports favorite is in El Salvador. In the last years an enormous reputation is gained between the lovers of the surfing.

It is possible to come to El Salvador perfectly in plane. Perhaps you need to do scale in New York, which is five hours ahead of flight of the country. There is a daily flight that salts from New York El Salvador.

A very cheap place to do surfing, an authentic paradise for those who look for something new and different. Also, in contrast to other big destinations, the beaches of El Salvador are not usually so full of the people like others. The climate is ideal, therefore you will be able to do surfing in any season.

Nevertheless, if you go between March and October you will find the best waves. January and February they are the worst, since there are days in which there are even scarcely waves. Nevertheless, the rest of the year you will enjoy to ceiling.

To be located in the country, El Salvador is divided in two regions. The most important and most well-known is La Libertad, and the second one is known as the Wild East.

In La Libertad it is where you will find the most spectacular beaches, which only are scarcely to 45 minutes of the airport. This is the area of El Salvador that the surfistas consider to be a real paradise. The place is very calm, with little pother, and very good restaurants, hotels and shops and schools of surfing.

The Sunzal and Top Rock are the best places to do surfing in El Salvador. Two corners do his strong swell especially spectacular for the surfistas.

If we go away now up to the region of the Wild East, we have to be located in Top Handle, which offers the best waves for the most experienced surfistas. Another corner of the Wild East is The Flowers, ideal for surfistas of any condition.

Since you can observe, El Salvador is a paradise of the surfing. Perhaps you did not know this option, and it is for it therefore there results still one of the cheapest corners from the world to practise this sport. To make use of the opportunity and to prove the experience of El Salvador.

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Port Antonio, a paradise in Jamaica

For that they go for the first time to Jamaica, one of the destinations that you must not get lost finds on the coast northwest of the country. It is a question of Port Antonio, a magic destination, since it is placed between the Blue Mountains and the Caribbean Sea.

Here in Port Antonio you will enjoy his beautiful beaches, wallowing in the Blue Lagoon, doing surfing in Boston Beach or proving the best of his kitchen in Boston Bay. Every day that happens, Port Antonio lodges more and more tourists. In spite of everything, it keeps on being a calm and relaxing escape in Jamaica, removed from the pother and the night life of Montego Bay or Negril.

It is much that to see and that to do in Port Antonio. For example, for only 2 dollars the entry, you can go to see the caves and the Frenchman's beach, one of the most photographed places of the area. This beach is one of the most beautiful of Jamaica, loner, almost isolated, surrounded of vegetation and cliffs. To sit down in his restaurant of local kitchen and to enjoy the conference.

Close to the Cove of French you will have the Beach of San San, an impressive place for the lovers of the diving. There is a part, Long Bay Beach, in which it is not recommended to bathe, due to the strong currents that exist.

As we were saying to you earlier, you have to go to the restaurants outdoors of Boston Bay. The Jamaicans say that one has never proved the kitchen of the country if he has not eaten in these restaurants. To sit down and to enjoy also the conference, the best place to sail, thanks to the high tides.

To swim and to give an intimate walk, nothing better than the Blue Lagoon. His waters color turquoise and green are wonderful. There are many that simply decide to lie down and admire the scenery, or do it eating from the Restaurant Blue Lagoon.

Finally, you can visit the Cataracts Reich, one of the most impressive waterfalls of the island. The water falls down of the limestone rocks, forming a series of lagoons and swimming pools to be able to swim. Of course, it is necessary to be careful because, if there are strong rains, you will not be able to visit them.

Now it is much easier to come up to Port Antonio, since in the last years there has been constructed a freeway that takes us even there. It does not surprise me that for the majority of the Jamaicans, Port Antonio is the nicest place of Jamaica.

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The Peninsula of Osa in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a wonderful destination to escape to the Caribbean Sea. This country has numerous attractions, but nevertheless, perhaps his best kept secret is not so well-known. It is a question of the Peninsula of Osa: do we know it?.

This peninsula is on the beach of the south Pacific Ocean of Costa Rica. The porqué is not so well-known it is well simple. Most of tourists fall down in the networks of the hotels that exist in the Peninsula of Nicoya, to the north. Nevertheless, if you are lover of the nature and of the outdoor activities, not to allow you to fool, and continue the track of the Peninsula of Osa, an authentic isolated and virgin paradise.

Once you come so far, the first thing that attracts attention of us there is the enormous biodiversity that offers us. We can be without risk of being wrong in one of the corners of major biological intensity of the planet. In the Peninsula of the Osa they coexist a big quantity of species of all kinds. And the best place to be able to observe them calmly is the National park of Hunchbacked.

With his almost 42.000 hectares, we are before what many know as the authentic Amazon of Costa Rica. This park covers a third part of the whole peninsula, and in him they live through a big species quantity, both of the flora and of the fauna, including ten per cent of all the mammals of America.

Somewhere here you will see toucans, lazy bears, turtles, macaws, frogs and monkeys squirrel. On the other hand, you have more than six thousand different insects species, what supposes something incredible. To be able to cover it peacefully, at least you would need approximately three days. It is possible to do for our account, although the most advisable sound the holding a permit visits.

Nevertheless, this is not everything what you can do in the Peninsula of Osa. Here excursions can be done in ship by the End Matapalo, go fishing in the Sweet Gulf and even do mountaineering. The best epoch to visit the peninsula is between August and September, with the dry station. Nevertheless we can say to you that any season is good to come for this paradise in the ground.

The Peninsula of Osa in Costa Rica is a real nature oasis. Véis now when you would get lost if you do not come to this hidden corner?.

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Isla de Utila, to dive very cheaply in Honduras

They say that to dive in the Caribbean Sea is an a little expensive activity. It is true, especially in some too tourist places. But there are other places where diving is very cheap, and it does not have anything that to envy to the best places of the Caribbean Sea. It is a question of Utila, in Honduras.

You will find Utila on the north coast of Honduras, in the Islands Bay, formed by Roatán, Guanaja and Utila. During more than two hundred years, these islands were controlled by the Britons. Nevertheless, from 1859 they depend on Honduras.

Thanks to his place along the Middle American System of Reefs, the second biggest of the world after the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, these islands are a paradise for the divers. But, to the being a slightly tourist place, to dive here is relatively much cheaper than in other corners of the Caribbean Sea.

Utila is more kidlings of three islands, with a population of scarcely six thousand inhabitants. Nevertheless, it has a big variety of restaurants, bars and hotels. The best way of coming to Utila is taking a ferry from the coastal city of the Ceiba. The ferry Utila Princess goes out two times a day, and the trajectory lasts one hour. Eye because the exits can be cancelled because few tickets have sold, or for the bad weather.

In Utila there are many schools to dive, in addition to shops where to buy and to rent teams. A course of four days can range concerning 260 dollars. There are many discount options in accommodation if you reserve diving in some of the schools.

Diving in Utila you will find reefs, beautiful corals, angelfish, electrical eels, seahorses and much more. Also, you will have the opportunity to swim along with the dolphins, or to approach one of the biggest species of the world, the sharks whale. The best moments to enjoy the sharks whale are in March and April, and September and October. Also you will have the opportunity to contemplate the Halliburton, an ancient ship sunk on the coasts of Utila.

Of course, we would recommend to you to visit Utila if what you want is to dive, since, otherwise, there is not much any more that to do in the island. With the exception of any route in ship, the summer camps and some holiday, really there is not much any more that to do.

So if you want to dive at a very cheap price, the island of Utila in Honduras is your best destination.

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Transports in Cuba

If you have thought to do a trip to Cuba, perhaps queráis to know what are the possibilities of moving us for the island. Today we want to give you some advices and recommendations on the public transports in Cuba.

The best thing to move us for Cuba is to take a taxi, especially if you have thought to go of one people to other, since inside the cities they are not completely necessary. There are taxis with license, and others without her. Not to worry, because the tourists usually take without problems those that do not have license, which theoretically they are illegal.

Other one of the public transport options in Cuba there are the buses, especially to move of one city other one, which they are enough background as to take a taxi. Inside Havana there is service of public bus. Viazul and Star are the principal companies, although Viazul is a little more expensive, but of course, you go more comfortable and they take air conditioning. The buses that go out out usually go to cities like Dry dock, Camagüey or Santiago de Cuba.

The trains are another alternative to travel round Cuba. Regular routes exist to travel round the island, although the principal train is the French Train. The line of this train connects Havana with Santiago de Cuba, and with frecuencua it stops in other cities that they take of way. In fact, the train is cheaper than the bus, nevertheless, although the opposite seems, the bus is more comfortable.

The most rapid form to travel inside Cuba is in plane. There are different the airports that exist in the island, especially close to the principal tourist areas. There are two air lines that produce domestic flights inside Cuba, Áviación Cubana and Aero Caribbean.

And, although it seems rare to you, a practice that one usually uses very much in Cuba and that is very widespread, it is to do hitchhiking. There is even up to official stops where the hitchhikers place themselves. If you place yourself in these stops, it is sure that they take you somewhere, but of course, in contrast to the traditional hitchhiking, you will have to pay to the person who takes you. It is an a little unusual way of traveling, but indicated for backpackers and lover of the adventure. In most of the occasions they will mount you in the back of the van.

Let's hope that with these recommendations you should do an idea of what transport to yourselves to use when you are in Cuba.

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The Island of Coiba in Panama

Perhaps Panama is not of the most interesting tourist destinations of the Caribbean Sea. To say Panama is to think simply about the channel of the same name. Nevertheless, today we want to take you up to the National park of Coiba, an exceptional place.

This park opened his doors for the tourism in 1992. Curiously, the island of Coiba was during more than 86 years the most important prison of the country, and perhaps of the Caribbean Sea. Nevertheless, today it has become possible to gain for the tourism, for his brilliant beaches, ideal ones to bathe and to do surfing, his impeccable reefs to dive, and especially, for the exhuberancia of his national park.

The fishing, the diving and the windsurfing in Coiba are three of the activities more frequent in the island. The fish that you will find here, so much if you go fishing as if you dive, they are wonderful, and of an incredible variety.

Also, the area is very calm, and in his waters scarcely there is immersed one the divers, for what is an authentic virgin paradise. There are giant streaks, white sharks and beautiful turtles. Between October to March many sharks whale swim for this area.

In the last years, the island of Coiba begins to appear in the principal tourist guides of the Caribbean Sea, and even there they are coming a big quantity of adventurous tourists, in search of the best of the Caribbean Sea. His past as prison of Panama has begun for behind to many in the first years, but now the thing is changing gradually.

In addition to Coiba, you can live through the contrast of the area of the Vale. The Vale is a placed people of mountain on the halfway between Santiago and City of Panama. It seems incredible, but the people is placed in the crater of an ancient volcano. Of course, to wrap yourselves up well, because it is a little cold to these heights.

Of this people we can recommend you Eden Park, a charming accommodation, to the outskirts of the Vale. To eat, the best of the area is the Restaurant Bruschetta. Since you are going to eat, to approach to wander about the streets for the historical helmet, where you will appreciate and have a very interesting impression of the past of Panama.

Like véis, in Panama not only we have the Canal of Panama, but there are other very interesting, genuine and original places, which are loaded with natural beauty and history.

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Apartments rent in Tulum, Mexico

Today we want to take you up to Tulum, one of the best tourist destinations of the Caribbean coast of Mexico. Not only for his beautiful beaches, but also for his incredible Mayan ruins. Do you know that in the last years the best thing in Tulum is to rent an apartment for our holidays?.

Of course, depending on the season it can turn out to be more difficult to find cheap accommodation of this type. In Tulum the dead season takes place between April and November, therefore it is the best epoch to find cheap accommodation. If you travel during the high period, from December until April, the prices will be much higher.

Many of the apartments of Tulum rent are available since the owners are only in the city during the high period. Usually, all the apartments of rent of holidays are furnished. The more your stay lasts, for example a month of holidays, the major possibilities of discount you will have.

We are advising you the rent of an apartment because, at the time of the truth, it is going to compensate you economically much more than to lodge you in a hotel. This way also you will be able to buy food, and prepare them yourselves, therefore you will save yourselves enough money. Anyhow, to throw a glance to some of the hotels of Tulum, since some of them have apartments to rent, with all the basic serviceability.
It is necessary to bear in mind that for what we look is the maximum possible money saves itself in our holidays. At the time of renting a holidays apartment, already be in a weekend, one week or one month, you have whenever to look well at what you sign in the contract. To read it thoroughly before coming to no definitive agreement.

If you are going to be a long, time one month like minimum, probably they will ask you for a deposit of rent, which you will have to pay in the keys delivery, or at least during the first week.

And the fact is that to rent an apartment in Tulum is an opportunity that you should bear in mind, especially if you are going to be more than two weeks in the city. Possibly save yourselves money of accommodation and of meal, in addition to being much calmer.

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Flights in Belize, the best transport in the island

Good is located, Belize is a country that is to the south of Mexico and to the east of Guatemala. We advise you from since you should forget to travel round highway for the country, because the ways are almost impassable. So the best thing the trips are in plane, bargain sales and very easy.

Inside the island Belize produces the Mayan air line Island Air, which offers several trips a day inside proper. With this company you can fly to the International Airport of Belize, to Cayes Caulker, Caye Chapel, Corozol, Dangriga, Plaisance, Fat Top, San Pedro and Savannah.

Practically it is possible to fly to the same destinations with another air company of Belize, Tropical Air, who also offers flights every day. Both companies also connect with Flowers, in Guatemala, to be able to visit the Mayan Ruins of Tikal.

To tell truth, we have flown with both companies, and they are very similar. Really, it does not import for the people very much what company is, with a proviso that they take him to his destination. The prices, schedules and days of flights are also almost identical. The air companies the only thing for that they ask us is that we verify with 45 ó 60 minutes of advance the tickets. In dead season even the tickets can be bought in the same day.

In fact, only there are two situations in which one or another company of flight would be interesting. One is in case of flying with children from two to twelve years, since both companies have different politics on this matter. Mayan Island offers 75 per cent of discount for the children, while Tropic Air does discounts as the destination to which you go.

Another option is for the topic of the weight of the baggage and the size, therefore the best thing is to consult earlier with each of them, since there can be restrictions as the size of a baggage or not.

It is necessary to bear in mind that the flights that go out from the International Airport of the City of Belize are more expensive than those of any other airport, therefore only to fly there if you have to do some international scale.

The prices of an one-way ticket can cost 63 dollars between the International Airport of Belize to San Pedro, 80 dollars up to Placencia and 35 dollars up to Ceye Caulker. And the fact is that to move in plane in Belize turns out to be much more rapid and feasible that to do it for highway.

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Consequences of the hurricane Ivan in Cayman Islands

September 11, 2004 is a date that does not forget in the Cayman Islands. This day, the hurricane Ivan was devastating the island, with impressive waves, and winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour.

The airport supported enclosure for two weeks, and the island remained closed for the tourists till the end of November. There were no phone lines, the water was contaminated, the power supplies were scarce, and the worst thing of everything, many residents remained literally without hearth.

To be located a little, it is necessary to say that the Cayman Islands find approximately 750 kilometers to the south of Cuba, in full heart of the Caribbean Sea. It is sure that the followers of the novelist John Grisham you have read many of his novels ambientadas in the tax haven of these islands. It is true that there are big businessmen and rich in these islands, but also many local population, that they fight every day to make the living attending to the business of the rich ones and to the tourists.

Although the island is independent, the Cayman is one of the British territories of overseas, being this government the person in charge of his foreign policy and his safety. After the hurricane Iván, they had to bring materials from the United States, although they were late in coming since the hurricane took course towards the east coast of Florida.

The homeless had to shelter in houses of his relatives until the provisions did not come and everything could comenzaro to work again. The water tubes burst with the hurricane, therefore there was no drinking water to drink. They were the Britons those who began bringing water and medical provisions to the area.

The people were 'standing in line to get his six daily liters of water for family, to 'stand in line to receive food, and another tail to gather batteries to obtain something of electricity. The supermarkets closed for six weeks. There was nothing to sell.
Unnaturally, the coral reefs turned out to be damaged, while the turtles farms were devastated. The community of turtles of the island was extinguished almost completely. Canada and Belize contributed in his he sent of electrical material, while it ordered the Bahamas soldiers to avoid the plundering.

The Government of the Cayman Islands collaborated providing hearths to all those who had remained without them. Every family had to be employed at the reconstruction of his houses.

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The Peninsula of Chaguaramas in Trinidad and Tobago

To the northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, in an almost isolated peninsula, there is Chaguaramas, a wonderful archipelago of islands, designated like national park. Here you will find a fauna and an impressive flora, beautiful beaches and an incredible natural scenery.

The Chaguaramas peninsula has been for ages a very important strategic enclave. Here they have traded American Indian, Spanish, French, British and American. From pirates to soldiers, the commercial and military traces date of five centuries ago, therefore also it turns out to be a real archaeological paradise.

Here it is possible to visit the Military Museum and of History of the Aviation, the biggest museum of his style in the whole Caribbean Sea, where it is possible to visit tanks models, búnkeres, warships and up to a combat plane. Dea hí we can go up to the Ruins of Huggins, with a bunker of the Second World war.

Tucker Valley is other of the interesting places in the peninsula, with the ruins of the Anglican church of Saint Chad, constructed by the Britons during the epoch of the slavery, and Macqueripe Beach Hotel. Also we visit the Institute of Marine Matters, which formerly was a church constructed by the Americans.

We have to approach up to Gaspar Grande, one of the coasts of the island, with Point Baleine, a place where formerly there was a center of fighter for whales. Close there can be visited the Caves Gasparee, used by the pirates to kidnap the merchants who were going up to Venezuela. The legend counts that, in some place of these caves, pirate is still buried a treasure.

For the lovers of the sports and the adventure, in Chaguaramas it is possible to do mountains cycling, trial, kayak, windsurfing, senderismo, to observe birds and to go fishing, and to look to the Capuchin monkeys, of screaming red color. Also you have to do a route up to Edith Falls, a cascade of more than 80 meters high.

From eight beaches that exist in Chaguaramas, the best is Macqueripe Bay placed to the north, especially to go for a swim and to swim. They are the calmest, and where you will enjoy more, without doubting it.

A good epoch to visit Chaguaramas is during the Carnival, when many concerts are celebrated outdoors along with the sea. Anyway, any season is good to visit this wonderful peninsula in Trinidad and Tobago.

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To dive in Costa Rica

Do you look for an interesting place to dive in the Caribbean Sea?: what would you think if we should say to you that under the waters of Costa Rica there are more than seven thousand different marine species?. Namely more than three per cent of all the marine species of our planet.

On the west the Pacific Ocean, and to the east the Caribbean Sea: for what more might it to ask in Costa Rica?. For that diving is a passion, in this country you will find of everything, from coral reefs to submarine caves, happening even for remains of shipwrecks immersed on these coasts.

And of course, tropical fish, like fish butterfly, fish parrot and fish balloon, only for naming some. There are some varieties of sharks, as the shark hammered and the shark whale. The streaks are other species that abound, therefore Costa Rica is one of the best places to dive in Central America.

To enter more detail, the north coast of Costa Rica is the most popular between the divers. You can swim and dive in Beach of the Coconut and the islands Catalina and Bat, where marine turtles can be seen. In the central Pacific Ocean you will see seahorses, sharks and turtles, while in the south Pacific Ocean they emphasize the coral reefs and the volcanic hillocks, where they live through many species, like sharks, streaks and brown breads.

The best epoch to dive on the beach of the Pacific Ocean is from November until April, while in the central and south Pacific Ocean the best thing is to do it between May and December, in addition to January if we are more to the north.

In the south of Costa Rica there are splendid places to dive, like Manzanillo, Old Port and Top Grape. Here it is a water it is crystalline and you will see incredible formations of black coral. The best months to dive in this area it is from March until May, and September and October.

Precisely, the Island of Coconuts in the south Pacific Ocean is catalogued like one of ten best places of the world to go to dive. It is a question of an uninhabited island, to almost 500 kilometers of the coast. Here you will discover sharks, tunas and streaks. The island in itself is a national park.

Do not lose the occasion to dive in Costa Rica, since it will turn out to be to you a really wonderful experience.

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Three hotels de luxe in Nassau, the Bahamas

With more than 700 islands that compose the Bahamas, as not to know where to go: does not it seem to you?. Nevertheless, we today want to advise you three of the best hotels of Nassau, the capital. To see what they seem to you …

- Colonial British Hilton

This hotel was inaugurated in 1901, although it was restored extensively and improved in 1999, and it lodges the only beach deprived of quite Nassau. In addition to this exclusive beach for the clients of the hotel, we are provided with a swimming pool, a center of fitness, classes of diving and rents of teams, in addition to the Courtyard Broiler, the Pool Bar and the Restaurant Portofino's.

This hotel is placed perfectly, since scarcely it is to five minutes in car of very good golf courses and casinos of Nassau. Also, from the hotel we can visit on foot so interesting places of Nassau like Straw Market, Bay Street, the House of Government and the Cathedral of Nassau.

- Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort

This is other of the hotels that counts with beach deprived for his guests, in addition to three swimming pools, hydromassage rooms, and even a cascade in the center of the hotel. Also, there is a service of exclusive bar in the proper swimming pool, so that you do not have not even that to move.

The hotel is very close to Bay Street, a place where the best night life of Bay Street concentrates. Also you have close Crystal Palace Hotel, which is provided with one of the best casinos of all the Bahamas.

- Atlantis the Bahamas

It is a question of one of the most luxurious hotels of the Bahamas. It lodges the biggest casino of the whole Caribbean Sea, there it is not at all, in addition to a whole of eleven swimming pools, toboggans and cascades, in a water park inside the proper hotel.

Even it is possible to dive in a private space, to which only there have access the clients of the hotel, in which to see more than 150 different marine species. The complex is provided also with ten tennis courts, a gymnasium, a spa, a room of movies and an area of games for the children.

The most impressive thing is that it counts with up to 17 restaurants, 18 bars, and the discotheque Dragons. It is a question of a place that you will never forget.

Perhaps these three hotels leave a little of your budget, but: porqué not to give you a small caprice?.

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He visits Eight Rivers in Jamaica

The city of Eight Rivers is on the north coast of the island of Jamaica. It is one of the most visited places of the country, especially because so far there comes most of cruises of the Caribbean Sea. Today we want that you meet Ochi, as they call her affectionately his inhabitants.

The most interesting tourist attraction of Eight Rivers there are the cascades of the river Dunn, very crowded of the people in the days of cruises. If you do not want to narrow between the people, there is one more very similar alternative on the west. It is a question of Laughing Waters, where from it is possible to do a small excursion for the White river on bamboo boats.

But in addition to these rivers and cascades, Eight Rivers it is provided with beautiful beaches, botanical gardens and some historical places that you have to know. As many other corners of Jamaica, they were the pirates the first ones in discovering Eight Rivers. Today scarcely nothing of that one stays Eight Rivers that the pirates sighted, with his apartments and hotels.

If you like the flora, you will remain impressed with the big tropical variety that exists in Eight Rivers. For example, you can visit the Garden of the Rio Guinea pig, with his Museum of the Culture Arawak, or the Pleased Gardens, which earlier were known as Gardens Affectionate, with his extensive orchids collection, or the Botanical garden of Shaw Park, with a few wonderful conference of the coast.

Also, there are very interesting historical places in the city, like the Fortress of Eight Rivers, to the west of the city, which dates of the XVIIth century, and which survives very well since it was restored in 1970. To the east the best thing is to approach Harmony Hall, a building of a century of antiquity, which nowadays lodges a center for the promotion of the local arts. It is not between the historical places, but we recommend to you the visit also to the Plantation Prospect, to know how there were living the big landowners of the plantations of sugar of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries.

For the most adventurous, in Eight Rivers it is possible to do paragliding, sports fishing, sumbarinismo and to play the golf. The most relaxed, the best thing it is to lie down to rest in the Beach of the Turtles, Mallards Beach or Big Beach.

To come to Eight Rivers you can do it in plane from Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, or in bus, that, in spite of being a long trip and something weighed by the highways, the scenery that you will see will be excellent. You have not left without visiting the sorceress Ocho Ríos in your step along Jamaica.

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High Trujillo, customs and traditions in Puerto Rico

Today we want to bring you over up to the beautiful and historical city of High Trujillo, in Puerto Rico, placed in the coastal flatness of the north, and in a place very rich in area kárstica, therefore undoubtedly there are many and varied sights in his surroundings.

On January 8, 1801, High Trujillo was occupied by the citizens of the high part of the river Loiza. The city received the name of Alonso Trujillo, who was the owner of the grounds where previously the city was settling.

Nowadays him it is considered that it is part of the metropolitan area of Saint John, although, turísticamente speaking, it is not the one that lodges a major tourists' quantity, especially because in his surroundings there are much more attractive cities, like Cataño, Bayamón, Canovanas, Toa Baja and Toa Alta.

In 2003 High Trujillo was the tenth city most filled with Puerto Rico, with something more of 75.000 inhabitants. Really, during the XXth century his population has increased greatly, with the quarters of the Carraízo, the Caves, Two Mouths, the Glory, Gorge Negrito, Big Gorge, San Justo and High Trujillo.

The best epoch to visit High Trujillo is during September, when there are celebrated the traditional holidays of The Marathon of the Arrecostao, a popular marathon that is celebrated every year.

Some of the principal attractions that you have to visit here are the Big river of Loiza, the Prey of Carraízo, Cold The Hague, Hell, Lemons, Maracuto, Orange tree and the Pastrana. You will see many fruit-bearing trees in the area, and the fact is that the people devote themselves principally to it, to the agriculture and the cattle.

In High Trujillo also there are some industries, since there is made wood, cloth, metal, and different types of electronic and electrical machinery. About the city a series of stones quarries exists also.

And the fact is that High Trujillo is trying to make way for itself to the tourism of Puerto Rico, since it is a place that it does not have that we say big attractions. Nevertheless, it is not of more knowing a little about this city, to see the customs and the traditions, as well as the way of life of the popular people of Puerto Rico.

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Typical, the most traditional music of Panama

If you go out of holiday for any corner of Panama, sure that you will not stop dancing in the whole night the typical one, also acquaintance like pindín, the popular folkloric music of this country. Do you want to know a little more on her?.

The typical one or pindín it came to Panama in the XVIth century. Some of the instruments that are used to execute it are the güiro and the conga, although the sound typical of this style of music is the accordion.

In the Peninsula of Azuero, the cradle of the Panamanian culture, the first vallenato music got together with the salomas so that the typical one was arising. In the 50s and the 60 began seeing many artists singing typically in the peoples of Panama, not this way in the capital.

Nevertheless, the heyday of the typical style came in 1990, with the figure of Victorio Vergara and other big artists, to do of this music the center of the Panamanian life. Some of the best artists nowadays are Ulpiano Vergara, Samy and Sandra Sandoval, and Nenito Vargas and The Black Pens.

Ulpiano Vergara was born in San Jose, The Stage, and the best singer is considered of typical current. He is a brilliant accordionist, especially when Mil Maneras executes his song of Forgetting you.

Samy and Sandra Sandoval are a duo Monagrillo brothers, in Farrier. Samy touches the accordion, and Sandra sings. His style is unmistakable, with a very sensual clear African Caribbean sound, with songs as Le Da Donde Más Hurts him.

Nenito Vargas and The Black Pens are also a group of typical very popularly. Between his most out-standing songs it is of Sé Porqué he does not Like.

Typical is the music that more touches in the whole Panama, included snack bars or bars, and other public places. Sure that when you walk along any street of Panama you will hear it in the radioes of the cars, or in the refreshment stalls of the beaches. Due to his happy rhythm and his letters, the typical one is a music for all the ages. You will not stop dancing it.

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Saint Lucia, practical information to travel

In the oriental Caribbean Sea there is a beautiful volcanic island. His name is Saint Lucia, one of the most beautiful tourist destinations of the Caribbean Sea. There it is possible to dive, to cover beautiful tropical forests, to know an exotic gastronomy and to live through an animated night life. Do you cheer up?.

Speaking about night life, the best restaurants and the best options to go out night in Saint Lucia you will have them in the north part of the island. Nevertheless, this is the most expensive area of Saint Lucia. Without going further, here there are exclusive accommodations, with services of spa and free transfers to the beach, which are about 500 dollars the room in night.

Nevertheless, in this north part also you have the best beach of the island, Reduit Beach. If you like the adventure, you can rise up to Gros Piton and Petit Piton, two twin volcanic cones of Saint Lucia, from which a few spectacular conference of the island are had.

To dive, we recommend to you the coast south-west of the island. And for the idlest, in Saint Lucia it is possible to do also excursions in catamaran, safaris in jeep, and senderismo in the forest.

The official currency of Saint Lucia is the Caribbean dollar. An American dollar is equivalent to 2,67 Caribbean dollars. Anyhow, also American dollars are accepted.

To come to Saint Lucia you have up to two airports, the Airport George FL Chat and the International Airport Hewanorra. You have to verify well which of them you will bequeath to coincide with your hotel.

To move you for the island, the cheapest thing there are the buses. If you ask for a taxi, we recommend to you to negotiate with the cabdriver the price before going out. Also there exists the possibility of taking an aquatic taxi, but they are usually quite expensive.

If you want a cheap alojamieno in Saint Lucia, the best thing is that you look at some rent of houses and apartments, in addition to the most teeny-weeny hotels, and those who are not in the first beach line. Anyhow, Saint Lucia is an a little expensive island, and for less than 200 dollars the night there is no too much variety.

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Analysis of the Cuban diet

Things of the Caribbean Sea: palm trees, beaches, the sun, a blue sky under which everything is coloring; white sand, happy and vigorous blacks, beautiful mulattoes, trasparentes and crystalline waters, green mountains, golden evenings and turquoises reflexes of the seas of the Caribbean Sea.

Cuba, Flat Pillar

But not everything is a color, music and a happiness, when we look for things of the Caribbean Sea in the network, we are going to be that also it cries and we want to contribute a small help, a sincere memory for the islands that live through a disaster in case of Haiti, and a brutal repression like the one that continues per years living through Cuba.

We wonder; why cannot Cuba be free? What would happen if the freedom was coming. From this side of the puddle we do not know, cannot understand through what one lives in there, and how a people is oppressed and to a heart. We do not know really what means not to enjoy the freedom, a freedom that belongs to each of the human beings and that nobody has the right to eliminate.

We do not know that in the Antillean island, the diet blocks the blogueros, everything blocks it so that from within it is no possible to have access, but these brave keep on drawing lots and inventing solutions to keep on giving news on the outside, how a new generation Y of journalists, who narrate as they can what happens inside.
We do not know the fear through that the Shoe family lives, and the daring few ones who dared to help and continue a funeral procession with freedom screams, approximately 200 persons who dare to shout surrounded with military men and observers.

The old Havana

The change can take place, it is true that the biggest of the Antilles preserves a special flavor for his old streets, his ancient cars, but all that can survive and simultaneously enter the present, the serviceability, the meal and the personal prestige.
This is not a politics question, not of partidismos, this is a humanity question, this blog does not enter for anything political topics, our topic is the Caribbean Sea and the current news is that Cuba dares to shout freedom although it is a fistful of broken hearts.
Cuba can be free, some day it will be, let's help from the outside to which a support air comes inside, let's throw our phrases of peace and fondness to our partners blogueros, at least for this route it is possible to see the force and the potency that has Internet, who knows if round there it is the way towards the freedom.

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Old Havana

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