Passport

Why do we Take Pictures?

Last Wednesday we watched the documentary Cannibal Tours (O’Rourke, 1988). This film presented a complicated narrative following a group of …

Haciendas in Perspective

Very early on, when discussing haciendas, they were described as inherently bad–they ran off of forced indigenous labor. However, when …

Mexican Architecture

While walking around parts of Merida can be tiring, it has been exciting to see the more suburban parts of …

Superiority Complex of Tourists

After interacting with many locals and tourists, I noticed first-hand that tourists avoid learning the language and history. One local …

Cannibal Tours (Thomas Mooney)

“Cannibal Tours” is a 1988 documentary film directed by Australian filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke. It explores the phenomenon of cannibal tourism …

Visit the Cementerio General

8am-4:30pm every day. Walk among the 25,000 vaults, ossuaries, and mausoleums of the General Cemetery, one of Mexico’s oldest. Be prepared for bones!

Saturday Slow Food Market

From 9 to 1! Mérida’s farmers’ market promotes Slow Food values by nurturing organic production and supporting regional culinary traditions.

Visit Mérida’s Monumento a la Patria

The Monument to the Fatherland (1945-1956) was entirely sculpted by hand by artist Rómulo Rozo. The monuments bas reliefs—carved from locally quarried stone—feature more than three hundred hand-carved figures and trace the history of México from the founding of Tenochtitlán to the first half of the 20th century.