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Around Mérida, Yucatan, México during 4th Biennial International Biogeography Society Meetings, January 5-12, 2009
Also visit IBS People - Mérida Dancers - Museum of Anthropology - Celestún - Chichén Itzá - Mérida Zoo

Mérida is near ground zero of the Chicxulub K-T extinction event asteroid or comet impact site (see here) estimated to be 180 km in diameter	Today it is a beautiful and safe Mexican city built on top of the ruins of an ancient Mayan city (view along Paseo de Montejo, whose impressive buildings reflect and especially prosperous time in the 1950s)	Image Caption
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Images in the row hanging at hacienda near Chichén Itzá - see here	Image Caption	Image Caption
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Makech (maquechis in Spanish) is a Yucatec Mayan handicraft, which turns harmless wood-eating beetles into living broaches Legend quoted from here: "There once was, I have been told, a Maya princess who fell in love with a man she would never be permitted to marry. So heartbroken was she that she wept night and day over her forbidden love. A shaman, hearing her cries and learning of her misery, transformed her into a glittering beetle, a piece of living jewelry. Her beloved pinned her to his breast. Thus she spent her life, close to the heart of the one she cherished."	From "Merida - Arising from White Solid Stone…" (author unknown)	Image Caption
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Image Caption	Image Caption	Life-size paper-mâché likeness of Frida Kahlo
Image Caption	Canton Palace houses the Museo de Antropologia e Historia - also visit Museum of Anthropology	Image Caption
Image Caption	Image Caption	Part of Mérida month-long anniversary celebration Also see Mérida Dancers images and movies
Casa Museo was the site of our IBS meeting banquet	Casa Museo	Casa Museo
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The sculptures along Paseo de Montejo change annually, with the present ones featuring German artists	Image Caption	Image Caption
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The January 6 holiday, Día de los Santos Reyes (Epiphany), celebrates the arrival of the Three Wise Men, when children receive toys and people buy a pastry called La rosca de reyes. Whoever bites into the bread and finds a minuature plastic doll must host a party for the Day of Candlemas (February 2). A certain IBS participant should be clearing her schedule for that day.	A recommended tequilla (the cheaper one on the left was 400 pesos in this tourist shop, or about US$30 in the duty free shops). Apparently the bottlers tried to change the labeling to make it look fancier but Mexican consumers protested; I noticed that these original and the newer labels were used alternatively in México's and Guadalajara's duty free shops. (Just for the record, I saved my last 300 pesos for my next trip to México.)	Image Caption
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Also visit IBS People - Mérida Dancers - Museum of Anthropology - Celestún - Chichén Itzá - Merida Zoo
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