Xenophobia and Xcaret

Xcaret used to be a gem at the butt-end of a sand path off a dirt road in the Yucatan Peninsula. White sand beach. Wild Manatees in clear cenote waters. Now it’s a tourist trap in Mundo Maya. But still paradise, worth a day’s vacation and the bag full of pesos it’ll cost to enjoy the pee-poluted waters. Visitors have brought money to a patch of Mexico that had nothing but natural beauty and poverty when Jack and I towed a 35 foot trailer onto the beach just north of Xcaret back in ‘91.

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