What I’m Reading This Week: Cabanas in Tulum, Future Trains, a Faster Plane, and Paris Bakeries!

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Papaya Playa, Tulum, Mexico (Design Hotels)

  1. Pop-up restaurants are so last year. Up now: pop-up hotels! (Terminal U)
  2. What really happened on Air France flight 447. (Popular Mechanics)
  3. Changing trains at 200 mph without even slowing down? (Been Seen)
  4. Hold on! This new plane will fly 4x faster than the Concorde! (Terminal U) Continue reading

Quick Look: Sian Ka’an Biosphere, Riviera Maya, Mexico

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Sian Ka’an in the Riviera Maya (Brad A. Johnson)

Anyone who traveled to Mexico’s Riviera Maya 20 years ago (before it was ever called the Riviera Maya) will fondly remember the bucolic beauty (and perceived remoteness) of this part of the Yucatan peninsula. Well, guess what? There’s still a part of this ancient Mayan land that is just as peaceful and blissfull as it was back then: the Sian Ka’an biosphere. 

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