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February 24rd  2010

..the heartbeat of the Riviera Nayarit 

SAN PANCHO MUSIC FEST. 2010.

The San Pancho Music Fest started 10 years ago in the backyard of John & Patricia Alexander.  A few musicians showed up and started playing some music on the back porch.  Word got around and the next year a few more musicians showed up. It started looking more and more like a festival.  Eventually the success of the festival outgrew the intimate surroundings of the Alexander back yard.  It was time for a change.

John and Patricia moved on and turned over the organization of the festival to Craig Schumacher, an internationally acclaimed music producer and professional musician.  The festival was moved to the Plaza del Sol.  That was 3 years ago.

 Today the San Pancho Music Festival has grown to accommodate some of the most colorful musicians and dancers from around the world.  There is still very much a local flavor, featuring the  traditional music of  local musicians.   But the music has expanded, attracting international acts from Europe, The U.S., Chile, Guatemala, France, Germany.  The festival maintains a come-one-come-all -everybody- is- welcome persona, while embracing the talents of some top-notch world class musicians.  In short, it's a nice balance of  amateurs and professionals getting together for 3 days to share an unforgettable music experience.  The philosophy is simple.  It's about sharing.

None of the performers are paid.  They come because they want to be here. This year the festival has expanded to include some wonderful , exciting, innovative dance performances. 

The San Pancho Music Festival. 2010. A vibrant, eclectic expression of performing art. 3 days of international music and dance.  February 26, 27, 28.  Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  From 2pm to 10pm each day.   The Plaza Del Sol in San Pancho.

2010 SAN PANCHO MUSIC FEST

                                                     PLAZA DEL SOL

                                           FEB   26TH   27TH   28TH

                                          FRI    SAT     SUN

                                          "a Celebration of International Music"

FRIDAY FEB 26TH

2-5     Open mic

5          Altrakadero or Nery(traditional or local banda)

6          Tin-Tok (traditional)

7           Chas (solo piano)

7:30   Suns of Arqa(Electro Dub/World Beat)

8:15     Japhlet (stick)

9:00     Sarah (fire dance w/Tutti & Susi percussion)          

9:15     Galaxia (Progressive Rock from Guadalajara)

SATURDAY FEB 27TH

2-5     Open mic

5          Paul Swan  (american folklore)

6          "Juan-Ted" and the Amazing Rhythm Roosters (r&r, blues)

7          Jeff Oster/Chas/Andy   (smooth jazz trumpet/piano/bass

8           Beto Y Carlos(traditional)

9          Latin Jazz Combo(incredible Hot Club/Gypsy)

SUNDAY FEB 28TH

2-5       Open Mic

5          Dave Fisher  (american folk)

6          Tatewari (flamenco, latin...extraordinaire)

7          The Combo or Faby/Shoe (originals/jazz/blues

8          Tikkilyches ( r&b, blues, jazz, alt )

9          La Boquita w/Adriana (Latin "Cirque de Soleil" music/dance)

10        Gallo

*all performances and times subject to change.....

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Mexico to apply new passport mandate

Beginning March 1, Americans and Canadians will be required to present passports to authorities in Mexico when traveling to that country by airplane or ship or when driving into the interior.

The requirement will not apply to those going no farther south than Mexican border cities such as San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., or Los Algodones, Baja Calif., or to the nearby popular Sonora tourist destinations of El Golfo de Santa Clara and Rocky Point. …..Click here to go to the original article

Medium earthquakes shake southeast of Mexico

Two earthquakes measuring 5.2 and 5.4 magnitude on Richter scale, shook the state of Chiapas in the southeast of Mexico, without report of victims or material damages, the National Seismological Service (SSN) said Tuesday.

One of the earthquakes measuring 5.4 magnitude was registered at 9:16 a.m. local time (1516 GMT). The epicenter was located 90 km southeast to Las Margaritas municipality with a depth of 25 km…..Click here to go to the original article

Ahead of spring break, State Dept issues travel alert for Mexico border

Travel alert places emphasis on a few hyper-violent cities and states near the Mexico border. It comes as many US college students and families are making travel plans for spring break. …..Click here to go to the original article

Mexico's Actinver plans stock listing

Mexican financial group Actinver said on Tuesday it is planning an initial public offering, the country's first since the global credit crisis.

Actinver, a brokerage and mutual fund operator, said in an exchange filing it would propose the the stock listing at a shareholders meeting on March 11. …..Click here to go to the original article

Mexico fines Eli Lilly, others for collusion

Mexico's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it fined Eli Lilly and Co and other global medical companies for colluding to inflate prices in government tenders for medicine.

Eli Lilly Mexico and three Mexican pharmaceutical companies took turns placing winning bids in government tenders to buy insulin from 2003 to 2006, eliminating competition and ensuring artificially high prices, the antitrust commission said.…..Click here to go to the original article

Mexico's earthquake recovery could be a model for Haiti

Though Mexico's government botched its initial response to the 1985 earthquakes, it found the right formula to build and repair tens of thousands of homes. The devastating 1985 earthquakes delivered Felipe Lembrino a mixed blessing: one year living in a squalid makeshift camp for the displaced, but also a new home built on government-granted land, financed by the Red Cross, constructed with his own calloused hands.

But it was not until Mexicans like Lembrino launched large protests against ineffective government -- barrio por barrio, neighborhood by neighborhood -- that they were assured permanent housing.…..Click here to go to the original article

Circular Aztec temple found in Mexico

A temple built on a circular base, possibly consecrated to the Aztec wind god, has been found in the historical centre of Mexico City.

Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma told the German Press Agency Matos Moctezuma, Mexico's most respected archaeologist and coordinator since 1978 of excavations on the remnants of the former Aztec capital, said the building was found behind Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral.…..Click here to go to the original article

U.S. Will Share Intelligence With Mexico

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will share intelligence and conduct joint operations with the notoriously corrupt Mexican Federal Judicial Police, under a new plan to "secure the U.S.-Mexico border."

OPKO Health Acquires Mexican Pharmaceutical Company

OPKO Health, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Pharmacos Exakta, S.A. de C.V. ("Pharmacos Exakta"), a privately-owned Mexican pharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture....Click Here to Read More

Mexico promotes bicycles to reduce pollution

A bicycle-lending programme, known as Ecobici, has been launched in this Mexican capital to promote more environment-friendly modes of transport and to reduce car traffic and air pollution....Click Here to Read More

Possible UFO wormhole filmed above Mexico

An unusual cloud formation that some are suggesting might be a UFO wormhole was filmed in Mexico earlier this month and uploaded onto the Internet. Almost nothing is known about this remarkable footage other than the approximate date and the fact that it was filmed in Mexico....Click Here to Read More

Mexico passport law to be spot-enforced

Mexican rule requiring U.S. visitors to show passports when they enter Mexico will not be enforced at Baja California border crossings, authorities said.....Click Here to Read More

Mexico's Pemex will stand short for years

A new oil field in the south of the Gulf of Mexico could hold  900 million barrels of reserves. Located off the coast of Campeche, the discovery is important. Development could begin in in 2 years and 150,000 bbl/day could be produced.....Click Here to Read More

New oil field in Mexico could help rescue industry

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T3 Motion Has Been Selected as the Clean Energy Electric Patrol Vehicle by Various Mexican Police Authorities

www.t3motion.com, a leader in cost-effective, clean-technology vehicles, has deployed over 75 T3 Series electric standup vehicle (ESV) in Mexico. These innovative, all-electric vehicles are hard at  ….Go here for original article

Mexico's earthquake recovery could be a model for Haiti

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ANALYSIS - Mexican moguls face off in wireless industry

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Sherri's back to the 50's valentine prom party was attended by many locals including Marylin and James who were pretty much wall flowers for most of the night. A king and queen were crowned for the event and dance books were filled. The music was totally 50's and 60's. Oh, there might have been a futuristic song thrown in now and then. Gifts were handed out and Frank was the first to receive one after Sherri's story about having dinner with Poncho.
Replica of Aztec Capital to be Built in Mexico
EFE
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February 22, 2010

Mexico City - A replica of the sacred center of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, will begin construction this year outside Mexico City, the directors of the project said.

Notable among the 21 buildings that will make up the replica of Tenochtitlan, a city founded in the 14th century and one of the biggest of its day, will be the pyramids of Coacalco, Cihuacoatl, Chicomecoatl and Xochiquetzal, the Temple of the Sun and courts for the pre-Columbian ball game that played a central role in Aztec culture, all of them surrounded by a canal.

"Rescuing history" is the key to this project, which will occupy some 300 hectares (740 acres), and where besides the pre-Columbian-style buildings there will also be offices, two Hilton hotels and two shopping malls, one of them dedicated to international designer fashions.

The buildings of the "sacred premises" will preserve the original dimensions, colors and paintings that, according to the observations of chroniclers like the Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, decorated the Aztec capital.

These pavilions will be reserved for exhibitions and, in the case of the ball court, for concerts and cultural events. IMAX movie screens will be installed inside some of the temples.

"We must recover the pre-Columbian architecture, our true architecture," the head of the project, Ivan Castañeda, said in Mexico City, but added that these will be "smart" buildings, "as required by businesses of the 21st century."

In order to "save these roots," whose importance is stressed by the creators of the project, the Nican Ca Tenochtitlan Center, as they are going to call it, will also include a Museum of Aztec Culture and an embassy of the indigenous peoples.

In addition, the canal surrounding the replica of the sacred premises will offer a nighttime boat tour featuring a representation of how the Aztec capital was destroyed by colonizers of the 16th century.

The team carrying out the project estimates that work will begin "in a few months" and that it will create more than 6,000 direct jobs and will take 5 years to finish, though the first replicas will be ready "by the end of 2010."

The plan has a budget of $3 billion, all provided by unnamed private investors from France, Britain, Chile and Peru.

The exact location of this park of commerce and culture has not yet been revealed, though it is known that it will be in the town of Huixquilucan, chosen for its proximity to a planned highway linking Mexico City with Toluca, capital of the surrounding state of Mexico.


Update on the kindergarten projects of Rotary and Los Amigos:
 Thanks to all the supporters of the kindergarten in Las Cabras. Your
donations of money and labour have made it all possible.


 The kindergarten in Las Cabras will be inaugurated on March 2nd at 2 pm.
You are invited to see the result of this community effort in person.

The parents of the kindergarten want to invite you to eat a meal with them in celebration of this important event.  The food is free but we will probably pass the hat to pay for the well which we still need.

 If
not come anyway. We really want to see all the workers and supporters and
there will be lots of food anyway.


 To see pictures of the project click this link:
http://sites.google.com/site/jaltembarotaryprojects/jaltemba-bay-rotary-la-penita/Home/kindergarten-in-la-colonia-las-cabras


 The next kindergarten project is La Patria where we managed to get the
walls built last year. Work there will start in the next two weeks and
should be complete by mid May depending on how the funding flows. We have
enough to get the roof on and almost enough to complete the project.


 To see pictures of that project click this link:

http://sites.google.com/site/kinderlacolmena/

 If you want to help you can purchase a coupon map.

You not only support a worthwhile project but it's a good deal. You get
about 1,500 pesos worth of 2 for 1 dinners, pizza, lunches and breakfasts
for a donation of 300 pesos to the education committee of Los Amigos.

The coupons are available at:

 the trailer park from Heater and Rob,

Hala at Hamaca Maya
Jeanie's real estate booth in Guayabitos
market Mondays and Thursday La Penita
market,
Xaltemba Restaurant
Bob and linda Gibbs at Casita La Penita
and of course from the los Amigos booth in
front of the church every Thursday.

 Thanks to all the supporters of these projects......Johan

WE ARE MOVING….

NOUS DÉMÉNAGEONS….

NOS MUDAMOS ….

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STARTING MARCH 01ST 2010

A PARTIR DU 01 MARS 2010

A PARTIR DU PREMIER MARS 2010

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Boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio #2485, Local “Sub. F”

Colonia Zona Hotelera Norte

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco C.P. 48300

SAME CONTACT NUMBERS / MÊME NUMÉRO DE CONTACT/ MISMOS CONTACTOS:

Tel: (322) 293 0098 & 293 0099

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001-800-514-0129 / 01 800 706 2900

Fax: (322) 293 2894

Email/ Couriel/ Correo Electronico: vallarta@canada.org.mx

PVNN
February 22, 2010

On the Trail of the Iguana - John Huston's behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana in 1964. (These clips include great footage of Puerto Vallarta at the time of it's "discovery" by the outside world.) See Part Two

A Letter from John Huston's Eden at Las Caletas [circa 1980]

For the better part of the last five years I have been living in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. When I first came here, almost thirty years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some two thousand souls. There was only one road to the outside world - and it was impassable during the rainy season. I arrived on a small plane, and we had to buzz the cattle off a field outside town before setting down.

Over the years I came back to Vallarta a number of times. One of those times was in 1963 to film The Night of the Iguana. It was because of this picture that the world first heard of the place. Visitors and tourists flocked in.

I am now living in Las Caletas, where I've leased one and a half acres from the Chacala Indian Community, the Mexican government has granted these Indians a long stretch of coast and a large interior region. To get to where I live you drive about fifteen miles south of Puerto Vallarta to a small fishing village called Boca de Tomatlan, where the highway leaves the sea and turns inland over the mountains. From Boca you take a panga (an open fiberglass boat with an outboard motor) south some thirty minutes to Las Caletas.

I have my place on a ten-year lease, with an option for another ten. After that, the land and whatever I've built on it go back to the Indians. Las Caletas is my third home. There are no roads to it, and it's unlikely there will ever be - the nearest village is about half an hour away by jungle trail. Las Caletas faces the sea and its back to the jungle, for this reason one thinks of it as an island.

Life here is lived in the open. At night wild creatures come down to inspect the changes I've made in their domain: coatimundias, opossums, deer, boars, ocelots, boas, jaguars. We find their spoor or trails in the mornings. Flocks of frenetic parrots come winging in at first light, full of talk. They climb, dive, wheel as one bird, alight in the treetops, all talking. They take off, do another quick turn or two and disappear - talking.

After sunrise the jungle quiets down, but there is always something going on at sea. Pelicans in tandem, skimming the waves - gulls and other seabirds, diving when the surface of the bay seethes and boils with sardines or schools of other small fish. There's a manta ray who performs regularly about fifty yards offshore. He always jumps twice. The first time is to get your attention. Then he throws all three thousand pounds of himself so high out of the water that you can see the freckles on his white underbelly Gray, humpback and killer whales and porpoises ply the offshore waters. We're trying to keep a record on the grays because this is the farthest south they've ever been seen.

The winters are sparkling clear. There is almost no rain for nine months. By spring the jungle greens have faded to olive drab. In late June the clouds begin to gather. They thicken and lower until they're halfway down the mountainsides. The atmosphere gets heavier and heavier. Then one day the heavens open and the torrential rains beat down. Instantly there are explosions of color throughout the jungle: orchids, birds or paradise, all manner of bromeliads. And every night there's an electricity display out at sea, lighting up the horizon like a great artillery duel between worlds.

Now that I'm of a certain age, I'm following a piece of old Irish advice in going to live by the sea: 'It stops old wounds from hurting. It revives the spirit. It quickens the passions of mind and body, yet lends tranquility to the soul.'

Spend a day at John Huston's Las Caletas with Vallarta Adventures.

 Afgan raises $8,000 pesos for school supplies

 Dot
 
Just wanted to let you know that the winner of the afghan was Mr. Richard Philippot of Winnipeg.  $8000 pesos was raised to purchase much needed school supplies. 
 
Attached is a picture of the kids on the day of the draw.
 

Yvonne

San Blas Crocodile tour
Photography by Bill Bell

 

 

 

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Xaltemba is open every night for dinner

including Mondays

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Saturday and Sundays too

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 Mexico Saw 15% Drop in Tourism Income in 200
Associated Press
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February 18, 2010

Mexico City - Mexico's revenue from foreign tourism dropped 15% in 2009 amid the global economic downturn and the swine flu epidemic.

The Tourism Department says Mexico received almost $11.3 billion from foreign tourism in 2009, compared to $13.3 billion in 2008.

In the wake of the H1N1 virus, also called swine flu, revenue plummeted 49% in May compared to the same month in 2008. The epidemic virtually paralyzed Mexico, forcing the closure of schools, restaurants and archaeological sites. Some countries restricted air travel to Mexico.

The department said in a statement that revenue fell just 4.5% in December, indicating the industry was recovering.

Drug violence has also discouraged foreigners from visiting parts of Mexico.

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A Complex Tragedy at the Border
Hector Tobar - Los Angeles Times
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February 22, 2010

The 800 Mile Wall highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the effect on migrants trying to cross into the U.S. This powerful 90-minute film is an unflinching look at a failed U.S. border strategy that many believe violates fundamental human rights.

John Carlos Frey wants you to be angry about the U.S.-Mexico border.

He wants you to feel such a deep sense of moral outrage that you'll get out of your chair and write a letter to your congressman.

That's why he invited me to the border town of El Centro, to stand in Imperial County's pauper's cemetery, a dusty field dotted with about 900 concrete markers the size of bread loaves.

Each was stamped with numbers or the name "John Doe." Several hundred marked the final resting place of Mexican and other Latin American migrants who've died walking across the desert or drowned trying to cross the nearby All-American Canal.

Frey, a 46-year-old filmmaker, blames the U.S. government for their deaths. In all, some 6,000 people have died crossing the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California borders with Mexico since 1994, according to human-rights groups. About 500 more die every year.

In his new documentary film, "The 800 Mile Wall," Frey says this tragedy is the foreseeable result of a policy that sealed off urban crossing routes, driving migrants into the desert.

"Doesn't this qualify as an atrocity to you?" Frey asked, after we'd walked to the center of the cemetery on a warm winter day last week.

I thought about Frey's question for a moment and tried to imagine the individual stories that had brought all these people to this sad end.

I've lived in Mexico and I have family in Guatemala. I've been to the urban neighborhoods and the rural villages of adobe and cinder-block where migrant journeys begin. But I wouldn't apply the word "atrocity" to what I've seen, not in the sense that Frey means.

On our long drive to El Centro, he had compared the migrant death toll to horrors that no one would dispute deserve that stark label: genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.

"Their deaths are systematic and they're the results of a policy," he said of the border crossers. "And it's not just a few. It's thousands." Some people, he said, think the death toll might be as high as 20,000.

"You wonder how long it will take people to get angry," he said later. "How long did it take in Darfur?"

Comparing the deaths at the border to massacres of Darfur makes for a poor analogy for lots of different reasons. But Frey's hyperbole is understandable. "Maybe it's because I've seen the bodies," he tells me.

Frey's film contains gruesome images and heart-breaking stories. He interviews a tearful Guatemalan man who had to identify his wife's remains at an Arizona coroner's office before being deported.

We meet an artist who gathers the objects migrants abandon in the desert, including the journal of a girl crossing with her family. The girl sketched a picture of the truck that drove her to the border, and the green grass she imagined on the other side.

We're shown the mummified remains of a woman -- we never learn where she's from -- who was traveling to the Bay Area to meet her fiance. We see the long hair flowing from her skull and the bones that have been stripped by animal predators.

Frey told me he's going to take his film on a tour of the United States this year. "I think if Americans knew what was happening here, they would be compassionate," he said. "Maybe I'm naive."

He wants to use the film as a tool to build support for an immigration reform bill in Congress that would allow migrants a safe crossing to the jobs that await them.

That's a laudable goal. But there's something about the way he and a lot of other people see the issue of immigration that deeply troubles me.

As a son of immigrants, I just don't buy the constant portrayal of immigrants in U.S. media as either victims or victimizers.

A number of television personalities have sold the American people on the idea that Latino immigrants are a criminal force undermining U.S. society. In "The 800 Mile Wall" the ill-fated migrants are all victims of forces beyond their control.

"I know that they have free will," Frey said of the migrants. "But I don't know that they have a free choice."

Actually, nearly every adult who undertakes the journey does have a choice.

A fairly typical crossing story, I told Frey, might begin in a Mexican town where a young woman wants desperately to go to college. She dreams of escaping the life of domestic labor that awaits her but can't think of any other way to defy her parents. Or it might begin in San Salvador, with a man who wants to emulate his wealthy cousin in Virginia.

In other words, many choose to go on la aventura, as it's popularly known, because it's the easiest avenue to social mobility. It's not the best choice in the world. It might be desperate or reckless, but it is a choice.

The dead migrants in that El Centro cemetery weren't driven to their deaths by soldiers with guns, as in Bosnia, or by killers armed with machetes, as in Rwanda.

That's why I couldn't say it is an atrocity. It's a complex tragedy born of inequality, yes. The policy that leads people to risk their lives crossing the desert is cruel, yes. But it's a risk people take, often knowingly and often from human motives as universal as restlessness and ambition.

"This is really only a small slice of the immigrant story," I told Frey.

I'd like to think we could build support for immigration reform by telling the full, nuanced story of the immigrant experience in the U.S. But maybe that makes me the naive one.

These are desperate, polarized times. People really should be angry about what's happening on the border. They should see the horrors of "The 800 Mile Wall" and they should ask themselves deeper questions about why people are willing to risk death to come here. And then they should write their congressman.

hector.tobar(at)latimes.com

Guayabitos Festival a fun time for all, one last event in February

Photography by Jim Fyke

New Homes and Living Section

February 14th, the Sol will launch a new Homes and Living section.

"We expect there will be a great deal of interest," says Bill Bell, Editor in Chief. "We will feature homes in the area as well as building materials, techniques and a whole host of information pertinent to tropical living."

"Additionally, the Homes and Living section will focus on healthy lifestyles including recipes, diet and fitness and travel."

If you have a topic you think we would find interesting contact editor@jaltembasol.com

Click here

 

 

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Jane Stokes - NewsCanada.com
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February 18, 2010

The Maya used their hips to thrust a ball through a goal-line ring.

Mexico attracts millions of beach loving vacationers every year- and yet amigos until you venture inland to sing and dance with this culture of such vigorous expression, or until you walk and wander through a-day-in-the-life of a people with 62 native languages - each one putting their heart and soul into a homeland of colliding Indian and Spanish civilizations-you will be missing out on some of the most moving experiences for your own heart.

Did you know, for example, that ball games were as exhilarating to the earliest people of Mexico as they are to the sports fan of today? Indeed, as early as 1500 B.C., the Olmecs are thought to have invented the ball court, a rectangular surface with a goal at each end. The Olmecs are also recorded as the first nomadic people to settle into communities, farm the land, domesticate animal food sources-and are duly revered as “the mother culture” of Mesoamerica.

The ball game retained its social importance throughout the Maya kingdom supremacy, culminating at around A.D 300. Witness the ball courts unearthed today at sites like Tulum, Coba, Chichen Itza and San Gervasio on Cozumel. Each court, measuring 20 meters or so, is shaped like the letter ‘I’ with sloping sides. Modern anthropologists used pictographs to piece together a game in which two teams of between two and 10 players used mainly their hips to thrust a large and heavy rubber ball through a ring on the opposing goal line.

The game was both a social sport and a religious ritual, possibly played to illustrate the Maya prowess in upholding their beliefs in cosmological forces. Their own folklore depicts that in death, ballgame winners are allowed to return to the world of the living. What is also known about the Mayan ballgame is that it involved human sacrifice. What is unknown, however, is which team was sacrificed: the winners, or the losers.

Mexico planning information is available online at www.visitimexico.com.