Celestun Day Trip
"You can be my flamingo, because pink is the new kind of lingo." - Aerosmith (Day trip to Celestun Biosphere Preserve)
Arches + Fountain + A Sacred Tree + Symmetry = Wow Wow!
Arches + Fountain + A Sacred Tree + Symmetry = Wow!
Layer by layer, more and more details emerge during this cenote video.
The Merida Homeland Monument. An imposing, hand carved history of Mexico. It's the perfect location to begin a day trip.
Convent of San Antonio de Padua in Izamal
In Izamal, day trips visit the Convent of San Antonio de Padua. Finished in 1561, it was built on the site of a Mayan pyramid.
Hacienda Petac Punctuated
The magnificent entrance to Hacienda Petac punctuated by a soundtrack of footsteps and birdsong.
Time Travel
Time travel at Chichen Itza. (Video by Bhargava Marripati)
Curves
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Celestun Day Trip
Favorite Petac Day Trips: Celestun Biosphere Reserve where as many as 35,000 flamingos congregate during the November to February mating season.
Ceiba Tree, Petac Mexico
Ceiba Tree, Petac, Mexico (Excerpt)
...The grackle struts through its portico. Above and all around
the whistle and hoot, the high glissando, the bell and echo,
the flatted fifth, the celestial chitter, the honk, the joke note
on a whoopee cushion, the clarion rising above the clatter,
the squelch and squirch and screech of a manic communiqué
keeps slipping, like background noise, into the broad cloth
of a morning above us and in us, like some momentary shaft,
of sunlight on the floating seed of the ceiba tree,
that hangs like this and like that in the shadows and subaltern greens...
Mark Svenvold, "The New Yorker"
Birdsong
A diverse orchestra of birdsong outside the Casa Principal.
Silence
Leave your "Calm" app at home. Listen to the sound of Petac.
Relaxation at Petac.
Twelve seconds of relaxation. 1. Turn sound on. 2. Be transported.
Cenote Swimming
A favorite day trip: cenote swimming.
The Casa de Maquinas Walkway
The covered walkway outside the Chu Jun and Toh bedrooms.
The Casa Principal
Silence puctuated by birdsong at the entrance to the Casa Principal.
Two Petac Icons
Our Ceiba Tree and series of Colonial Arches.
Nature Walk
Wander the intense green paths of Petac accompanied by birdsong. (For a short sound sample click on the speaker button.)
Birdsong
The soundtrack on the path to the Casa Principal. (Please turn speaker on.)
The Ceiba, the sacred tree of the Maya—which connects the uppermost heavens to the earth and below.
