Notable to Mexico and familiar to most people, by way of photographic images in travel magazines, are the amazing pyramids and their singular design features. Mexico’s Pyramid of the Magician is perhaps one of the most famous of these structures and one of the most massive pyramids in Mesoamerica, an amazing wonder due to the shear construction effort that it entailed. It is the largest building in the pre-Columbian city of Uxmal as well.
Ciudad del Carmen is a beautiful and tranquil tourist destination located on the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan peninsula. It sits in the southwest part of the state of Campeche, Mexico on the southern tip of Isla del Carmen. A region full of culturally rich history, natural beauty, and the best seafood in Mexico, it’s still relatively unknown, “off the beaten” path of other popular tourist destinations.
In 2007, a six-year initiative culminated in a popularity poll aimed to pick seven new wonders of the world from a short list of 200 existing monuments. While many of the places that failed to make the cut are highly desirable destinations, the Acropolis of Athens, Angkor Wat and Eiffel Tower included, the selected seven are rightly found at the top of many a traveler’s bucket list.
