Saturday, June 6, 2015

Costa Rica ( San Jose, Jaco, Montezuma and Nosara )

Our House in San Jose
Central market San Jose
National Stadium San Jose
Jaco beach surfers paradise
  
Manuel Antonio National Park,  is a small National Park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and 132 km (82 mi) from the national capital of San José. Established in 1972 with a land area enumerating 1 983 ha (the smallest of any Costa Rican national park), it is the destination of as many as 150,000 visitors annually and well known for its beautiful beaches and hiking trails. In 2011, Manuel Antonio was listed by Forbes among the world's 12 most beautiful national parks.



Los Suenos , on Good Day Too . Dylan first sailfish

Montezuma surfing day
Montezuma Spanish Lessons with Rebeca.
Our 15 wedding anniversary at Montezuma Playa dos Artistas
Nozara another surfing day with take-away pizzas
Nosara Skate park



Friday, May 15, 2015

Mexico City, Tulum and Bacalar




The Museo Júmex in Nuevo Polanco, Mexico City, was opened on 19 November 2013. It expects to receive 300,000 visitors per year. It is conceived as an addition to Ecatepec, which is not to close. The building is 45,000 square feet (4,200 m2) in size and cost around 50 million US dollars to build. > Carlos Slim Helú sold Lopez the land that the Museo Júmex is on.
The museum features Mexican artists such as Gabriel Orozco and Carlos Amorales as well as international artists such as Olafur Eliasson and Tacita Dean. The museum plans to host at least six exhibitions a year. and to regularly rotate works from its permanent collection.


Chapultepec Zoo  is a zoo located in Chapultepec Park; it is one of four zoos near Mexico City, and the best known Mexican zoo.




Aquarium inbursa
Teotihuacan , was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city located in a sub valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 30 miles (48 km) northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Apart from the pyramids, Teotihuacan is also anthropologically significant for its complex, multi-family residential compounds; the Avenue of the Dead; and the small portion of its vibrant murals that have been exceptionally well-preserved.







El Tepozteco is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Morelos. It consists of a small temple to the Aztec god Tepoztecatl, a god of the alcoholic pulque beverage.
In the middle Postclassic Period, various terraces and a small pyramid were built on one of the peaks of the Sierra de Tepoztlan, overlooking the pre-Columbian town of Tepoztlan. The temple became important enough to attract pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala, although the cult of Tepoztecatl was local to this site.





The Frida Kahlo Museum , also known as the Blue House (La Casa Azul) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is located in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City. The building was the birthplace of Kahlo and is also the home where she grew up, lived with her husband Diego Rivera for a number of years, and eventually died, in one of the rooms on the upper floor. In 1958, Diego Rivera donated the home and its contents in order to turn it into a museum in Frida's honor.
The museum contains a collection of artwork by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and other artists along with the couple’s Mexican folk art, pre-Hispanic artifacts, photographs, memorabilia, personal items, and more displayed in the rooms of the house which remains much as it was in the 1950s. Today, it is the most popular museum in Coyoacán and one of the most visited in Mexico City.








This is one of the most interesting diving spots in the region, Casa Cenote (Cenote Manatee) is located in the middle of mangrove, very close to the ocean. The diver can navigate through passages and fissures in the limestone. For experienced divers, the place offers a stimulating alternative and with unexpected surprises. First dive  Dylan and Noah.




Chichen Itza  "at the mouth of the well of the Itza") was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Chichen Itza was one of the largest Maya cities and it was likely to have been one of the mythical great cities, or Tollans, referred to in later Mesoamerican literature.The city may have had the most diverse population in the Maya world, a factor that could have contributed to the variety of architectural styles at the site. Chichen Itza is one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico; an estimated 1.2 million tourists visit the ruins every year.




This dive site is must do for advanced divers who are looking for something a little different. The name means "little angel" in English and there may not be a better way to describe this magical dive site. To describe it simply this cenote does nothing else but go straight down 200 feet. Fresh water with unlimited visibility makes up the first one hundred feet and salt water the other half is separated by a mystical layer of hydrogen sulfate. This layer in the middle appears as a dense cloud from the top and strange colored hue from the bottom.

Angelita Cenote

For a long time “The Pit” was a closely guarded secret and very rarely dived due to its remote and inaccessible location. Recently access, although still not easy, has improved making guided cavern dives a possibility.

It is by far the most challenging and adventurous of all the cavern dives on offer but it is definitely worth the effort as it is also probably the most spectacular. The Pit is the deepest part of Sistema Dos Ojos which is the 3rd longest underwater cave in the world and is also the deepest cave so far discovered in Quintana Roo with a maximum depth of 120m/400ft. This is a dive for experienced divers because of the depth and good buoyancy control is essential to avoid uncontrolled descents or ascents.

This freshwater lagoon, with a bottom of gleaming white sand, is Mexico’s second largest lake and is known to reflect “seven shades of blue”. Behold this magnificent sight as blue, green and turquoise tones flow into the Caribbean. Photographs do not do justice to this natural beauty and it must be seen with your own eyes — it’s absolutely astonishing.