Mexico: 2017: Mexico City and Surroundings 

There's an island along the way called La Isla De Las Munecas: The Island of Dolls.  The island is home to hundreds of old, scary looking dolls. According to local lore, the caretaker of the island tied a doll he’d found to a tree to pay homage to a young child who’d died.

Apr 17-18, 2017.  Taxco, Mexico.  I spent a day and a night in Taxco (which is about 100 miles from Mexico City).  The city is heavily associated with silver, both with the mining of it and other metals and for the crafting of it into jewelry, silverware and other items. Today, mining is no longer a mainstay of the city's economy. The city's reputation for silverwork, along with its picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes, have made tourism the main economic activity.  However, I actually never saw any silversmiths or jewelry stores - I just wandered about, enjoying it's street scenes.  I Saw very few tourists.

Apr 17, 2007: Parque Nacional Grutas de Cacahuamilpa, Mexico.  Cacahuamilpa is one of the largest cave systems in the world.  It is a "live" cave system, meaning that groundwater still filters down into it, and that the formations there are still growing.  Inside the cavern system are ninety large "salons" separated by large natural rock walls and connected to one another via a central gallery. The publicly-open portion is essentially a two-km-long, level passage of linked “salons” or borehole openings.

The entrance is a large arch about forty meters wide and twelve meters tall. From the entrance, one descends about twenty meters to the level of the caverns. The path has a mostly level cement walkway, and there is artificial illumination on both the path and parts of the salons, which can be seen in this photo.