DAILY PHOTO: Playa Norte, Isla Mujeres

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Photograph of Playa El Cocal, the Playa Norte of Isla Mujeres offshore from Cancun, Mexico.

PROMPT: Top 10 Travel

Daily writing prompt
What are your top 10 travel destinations?

I am not sure whether this is meant to be aspirational, by frequency, or by the appeal of the place. I’m also not sure what level of granularity to use. So, I will arbitrarily go with the countries (and things that quack like a country) that I’ve most enjoyed traveling in, placed in no particular order: – Taiwan; – Vietnam; – India; – Peru; – United States; – Kenya; – Georgia (Republic of); – Thailand; – Korea; and Kyrgyzstan.

NOTE: This list is not stable, and I hope to add and knock off some in the near future.

DAILY PHOTO: Iglesia de San Servacio, Valladolid

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Photograph of the Iglesia de San Servacio, a Catholic church in Valladolid, Mexico that was rebuilt in the 1700's from its original founding in  1545.

Mayan High Priest Limerick

Photograph of El Castillo at the Mayan site of Chichen Itza, Mexico.
A newly promoted Mayan High Priest --
queasy, but charged with bloodletting next feast.
Suggested a new style:
Lymph, sweat, milk, tears, or bile
Were offerings that made his odds of fainting decrease.

Iguana Limerick

Photograph of an Iguana on the rocks overlooking Tulum Beach.
In Tulum, a lazy old Iguana
was asked to leave but said, "I don't wanna!"
They threated and chided -
reasoned and derided -
'til it left, bribed with good marijuana.

DAILY PHOTO: Structure 10 Ruins, Ek Balam

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Photograph of ruins of Structure 10 (seemingly bleached white) taken at Ek Balam, a site of Mayan ruins in the Mexican Yucatan.

MEXICO LIMERICK

DAILY PHOTO: Tulum Beach

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DAILY PHOTO: El Castillo, Chichen Itza

DAILY PHOTO: Blue & White on Isla Mujeres