I love OATs: Outdoors, Art & Travel
What happens when a city is built after a dream where angels trace its blueprint with threads of gold? You end up with a splendid city. So splendid, that Puebla’s original name when it was founded in 1531 was La Puebla de Los Angeles (City of Angels). Puebla means “a place where people settle”. And …
As the boat approaches Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis, you get a glimpse of the landscape of the town. The quaint two-storey buildings with bright-painted wood and contrasting dark stones sleep under the eye of the imposing Nevis Peak. Charlestown is a small town you can explore on foot. Here you can …
The most famous Mayan sites are in the Yucatan Peninsula, but the Mayan world spread beyond Mexico throughout a region that we know today as Guatemala, western Honduras, western El Salvador, and Belize. Yes, there are Mayan ruins in Belize. Are they worth visiting? Absolutely! Not only the Mayan civilization was highly advanced and created …
You know you’ve arrived in a special place as soon as you step into the streets of the small town of Sarchí, in Costa Rica. Bright-coloured paintings of intricate geometric patterns and birds and flowers are everywhere: on the street signs, on the utility poles, in murals, and in parks. The art permeating through the …
Right smack in the middle of a dense jungle the pyramids and temples of the mid-size Mayan ruins of Ek Balam soar above the canopy trees. The lost city of the Black Jaguar (or Star Jaguar, as some Mayans call it), which was at the top of its game around the late Classic period (600 …
Back in the days when the great city of Uxmal was a power stronghold in the Mayan world people in its streets must have walked proud and tall. Wow, look at our squares, look at our palaces, look at our pyramids. Man, we rock! They must have thought their kingdom would rule forever. Royalty may …
