On Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, A Thoughtful Approach to Tourism Is Emerging
It was a hot, bright afternoon in the Place Where the Sky Is Born. This is one of several translations of the Maya phrase Sian Ka'an, the name for a 1,080-square-mile biosphere reserve on the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A gentle current pulled me west down an ancient canal to the sea. The water was crystalline and just cool enough to be refreshing as I drifted past a centuries-old Mayan customhouse and the high white arcades of mangrove roots, convenient perches for darting purple martins, gray crowned cranes, and pink bromeliads with their spiky fronds. It was nearly s...
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