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MEXICO CITY - The population of California sea lions is down dramatically due to climate change, but in one natural refuge area off the coast of northwest Mexico, they are doing well and delighting tourists who dare to swim with them.

Sea lion colony in Mexico defies declining numbers

Sea lion colony in Mexico defies declining numbers

A meander through the less-explored central peninsula shows a different side of the region.

Just 24 hours before our scheduled charter in the Bahamas, the government clamped down again on visitors from the United States. Having endured two Covid-19

They Said, “Stop Going to Mexico, You Monsters.” I Decided to Spend Two Months There With My Young Kids Anyway Fodors 1 hr ago Terry Ward © Provided by Fodors You know when you get a short glimpse of a “new-to-you place,” fall in love, and instantly start working on how to get back for a longer stay before you’re even on your flight home? That was me last December during a quick three-day trip to Cabo San Lucas, my first time, when the magic of the Sea of Cortez h...

I recommend taking that advice literally. All these many years I’ve been researching and reporting on the world’s top options for living well and retiring better, I’ve used the following suggestion to frame the conversation: Ask yourself, I’ve said, what you’d most like to see from your bedroom window every morning when you wake up… Then look around the world for where you’re able to afford that view. But it doesn’t have to be your bedroom window. My View In Panama City Alamy/ha...

Timanfaya National Park and the volcanoes in Lanzarote The austere, otherworldly landscape of Lanzarote is shaped by hundreds of volcanic cones, many of them dating back to a series of devastating eruptions in the 1730s. For six years from 1730 to 1736, volcanic activity covered 200 square km of fertile farmland with layers of ash and lava, destroying up to 20 villages and causing most of the island’s inhabitants to flee to nearby islands. Part of this area now forms the Timanfaya National P...

After more than 14 months away, Lief and I have returned to Los Islotes. We arrived at Tocumen International late last Wednesday afternoon, spent two nights in Panama City reconnecting with staff to the extent current quarantine restrictions allowed, then flew to the Veraguas coast early Friday morning. “What’s it like coming back after having been away so long?” a friend asked over drinks Sunday afternoon. “Is it strange?” “No, in fact, it’s not,” Lief replied. “We’ve slid ...

I knew Panama had been hit hard by the pandemic, but hearing about the challenges and living them are two different things. Staff in Panama have been living through the various lockdown measures since last March, but their accounts of the pains of the restrictions, which at times have been even stricter than they are right now, didn’t give the full picture of the situation on the ground. Restaurants are closed, but restaurants have been closed for months in Paris, where I spent much of last y...