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Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo sang this past Saturday at the famous Mayan site of Chichen Itza, despite complaints from Mexican archaeologists and cultural critics. The bearded Domingo, native to Spain but raised in Mexico, argued that the concert would do no damage to the ancient site, and that it was actually a tribute to the Mexican-Mayan culture.

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo performed at Mexico’s Chichen Itza Saturday making some last minute program changes to quell a cultural furor over the event. Chichen Itza contains some of the most treasured masterpieces of Mayan architecture in the world and carries enormous cultural significance for

The Mayan city of Chichen Itza, located in the Mexican state of Yucatan, was chosen as one of the “Seven New Wonders of the World” by approximately 100 million people around the globe, who cast their ballots by phone and Internet.

This trip has honestly been just so much fun! We went to Merida, Yucatan for a hew reasons; 1.) It’s the birthplace of not only my mother but my grandmother 2.) The family hadn’t been back in 46 years 3.) It was a family reunion, since out of 5 siblings they haven’t gotten together in a very long time.

After almost a year of writing this blog, we all agree that matching tourists make us want to puke. Seriously, aren’t there enough clothes (and hats) to go around? Oh and his bought-at-the-local-fair murse doesn’t help either.

The Mayan Riviera, a stretch of coastline on the Yucatan Peninsula running from just outside Cancun in the North to the ancient Mayan site of Tulum in the South is rapidly growing in popularity.  Why has this previously quiet area of the Yucatan Peninsula become a magnate for tourists?

In the United States, surprise fees are the norm whenever you stay at a hotel. Sure, it’s 89 bucks a night, but factor in taxes, service charges (whatever that means), and $3 for every coffee bean you used, and your budget hotel room is now costing your month’s rent. That’s why the idea of an all-inclusive resort is so appealing.

A very col National Geographic segment on the Lost Temples: Mayan Pyramids of Chichen Itza. via videosift.com Tags: lost city, Chichen Itza, Maya, Mayan, pyramid, Central America, temples, Americas, history, National Geographic

The end of the academic year is approaching and those of us who can still see straight are assessing how we and our kids have done in school. Today it was Robey's turn to drag me through the mud teach me something I hadn't known.

Even spooks need their virtual worlds. Where else, after all, could they rehearse their training missions against the bad guys of the world? Forterra Systems and IBM said today that they’re teaming up to create virtual worlds for U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies.