Unique Things to Do in Yucatan Peninsula

Find unique things to do in Yucatan Peninsula in the video below. It includes such off the tourist track places as Ek Balam, with its magnificent carvings in the face of a pyramid that you can climb. You’ll also find Valladolid, where you can get wonderful local Yucatecan food. Plus, you’ll love Izamal, the yellow-painted town with its cathedral, home of the Black Christ or Cristo Negro. And, of course, there’s the usual Yucatan tourist hotspots of Tulum, Chichen Itza, Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Coba, and Akumal.

Many Reasons to Love Yucatan

There are many reasons to love Yucatan. In this video, narrator and co-writer of the travelogue, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, Miriam Balsley describes 12 of the reasons she loves Yucatan Mexico.

From swimming and snorkeling in the warm tropical waters of the Riviera Maya, to exploring mysterious lands and ancient Mayan ruins, to the shopping and nightlife of Cancun, to the rich cultural heritage of the Maya peoples, to the world-renown Chichen Itza pyramids, the Yucatan Peninsula is a magical place. Here’s a short video showing the many things to love about Yucatan:

Safety in Yucatan Peninsula for Women

Twenty-one years living in Yucatan has given Kristine Ellingson a different opinion of safety in Yucatan Peninsula for women than the U.S. media leads us to believe. In this video excerpt of a interview with Kristine, she gives safety tips for women traveling alone in Yucatan.

End of the World 2012 Movie contains Yucatan travel scenes

I notice that people are still buying the End of the World 2012 movie on Amazon. Actually, it does contain many good travel scenes of Yucatan, including the Chichen Itza Feathered Serpent Equinox event, Mayan ruins in Coba, Uxmal, and Palenque, and Chicxulub, the site where the comet hit 65 million years ago, which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. In any case, if you’re wondering why the world didn’t end on December 21, 2012, this movie has the answers.

Here’s the official trailer:

Movie Trailer: Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza

Curious about what to expect when traveling in Yucatan, Mexico? My video, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza explores familiar travel destinations, such as Cancun, Tulum, and Chichen Itza, as well as little-known gems such as Ek Balam, Valladolid, and Izamal. Here’s the official trailer of the travelogue:

Yucatan Travel Movie now available for easy, inexpensive download & rental on Amazon

I am pleased to announce that the movie, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, is now available on Amazon for inexpensive rental or to buy downloadable.

Whether you’re interested in traveling to the Yucatan or you’re an armchair traveler who enjoys watching videos about foreign locales, you’ll enjoy Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza.

It is an authentic, genuine video made with a camcorder showing what you can expect if you travel to the Yucatan. Narrated by Miriam Balsley, who loves to travel in Latin American countries, she takes you both to well-publicized tourist destinations and also to relatively unknown gems, giving you a flavor of the wonderful, rich experience of travel in Yucatan.

Whether you’re after Mayan ruins, delectable native cuisine, shopping for crafts, or enjoying the turquoise water of the Riviera Maya, Yucatan Travel is for you.

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The Riviera Maya is in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula

The Riviera Maya is located along the northern Caribbean coast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo

In the map on the right, the Riviera Maya is the northern part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Riviera Maya extends along the extreme eastern coast of Quintana Roo along the Caribbean Sea (also on the right).

The popular Mayan ruins of  Coba and Tulum are in Quintana Roo as well as the modern tourist towns of Playa del Carmen and Cancun.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook.

The Land of the ancient Maya

The Yucatan Peninsula showing the location of Mayan ruins sites

As you can see from the map of the Yucatan Peninsula on the right, there are Mayan ruin sites in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco (where Tabasco Sauce comes from), and Chiapas.

There are also Mayan ruins in the countries of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

Of course, the ancient Maya–the ones who wrote the Mayan prophecies and made the Mayan calendar–did not think of the area as the map looks today with separate Mexican states and separate countries.

For them, it was all the land where they lived with different centers of power where large populations lived. These are today’s Mayan ruins sites.

And today, even though this land is separated into different countries and different Mexican states, it is still the land where the Maya live–the modern-day Maya who are the descendants of the ancient Maya.

The Maya have lived in this area for thousands of years.

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Cancun did not become an official part of Mexico until 1974

Cancun is in Quintana Roo, Mexico’s youngest state.

Quintana Roo is where Cancun is. Lots of people don’t know that Quintana Roo and Cancun did not even become a part of Mexico until 1974.

Although Quintana Roo was a territory of Mexico since 1905, it did not become an official state until October 8, 1974.

It is Mexico’s youngest state. Quintana Roo, like Yucatan, is a Mexican state in the Yucatan Peninsula, and is one of the states in Mexico where the Maya live.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 Book and End of the World 2012 EBook

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Where the Maya Live in Mexico

The Yucatan Peninsula

With all the information on the End of the World 2012 Mayan Prophecies, many people don’t know where the Maya live.

They live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which looks like a thumb sticking out from the “hand” of Mexico.

The top of the thumb is the state of Yucatan. Then, on either side, in the middle of the thumb are the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 EBook and the End of the World 2012 Book.

Carol Chapman director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie.