Riviera News
Articles from Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya.
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Following last year's success, the second annual 'Sacred Mayan Crossing' will take place at the end of the month. Thirty 26-foot canoes, each with a crew of four to six, will paddle from the mainland to Cozumel and back. The 3 day event re-creates ancient ritual pilgrimages undertaken by the original inhabitants of Yucatán to Polé (Xcaret) and then on by canoe to Cuzamil (Cozumel). |
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 Mexican Caribbean real estate event. |
Atlas Legal, a US conference organizer, will be holding a 'summit' for the real estate market in Playa del Carmen, near Cozumel, next month.
They have held other property events in Mexico in the past, but this is the first that will focus on the Mexican Caribbean. |
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Cozumel was lucky last month. When Hurricane Dean passed by to the south it only brought a little wind and rain.
The island is fine, but some of Cozumel's cousins on the mainland weren't so fortunate. |
 Mahahual on the mainland after Dean. |
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Many US based news sources published false information claiming that the Riviera Maya got hit hard by Hurricane Dean when in fact it never lost power, cable, or internet.
Other then a bit of wind and rain Playa del Carmen was calm. |
 Playa del Carmen beach after Dean. |
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 Canoes leaving at sunrise. |
History was made at sunrise last Friday, when some 180 rowers took to more than 20 traditional Mayan canoes and paddled across the channel from the mainland to Cozumel.
The re-enactments of travesÃas sagradas - crossings last made by the Maya over 500 years ago - were organized as part of an event to promote knowledge of local traditions. |
