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Cancún, Mexico
proof of Mexico's ability to get things done
Cancún is marginally closer to Miami than it is to Mexico City, and if you come on an all-inclusive package tour the place has a lot to offer: striking modern hotels on white-sand beaches, high-class entertainment including parachuting, jet-skiing, scuba-diving and golf, and a hectic nightlife. From Cancún much of the rest of the Yucatán is easily accessible.
There are two quite separate parts to Cancún: the downtown Zona Commercial — the shopping and residential centre which, as it gets older, is becoming genuinely earthy,and the Zona Hotelera — a string of hotels and tourist amenities around "Cancún Island," actually a narrow strip of sandy land connected to the mainland at each end by causeways. It encloses a huge lagoon, so there's water on both sides.
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U.S. Virgin Islands
sixty islands, islets and cays make up the USVI
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With its sea-swept landscapes, historic towns, duty-free shopping and luxurious resorts, the Unites States Virgin Islands bask in the combination of familiar yet exotic that makes them one of the most popular cruise-ship destinations in the Caribbean. America aside, it's the Danes who have had the most influence on the islands. Successful sugarcane exporters and slave dealers, they built most of the major towns, and there are plentiful reminders of their presence in the colonial architecture of the historic cities of Charlotte Amalie and Christiansted and in the ruins of sugar plantations scattered across the green mountainous slopes.
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Rio de Janeiro
fortified outpost to a great city of the world
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Nearly five hundred years have seen Rio de Janeiro transformed from a fortified outpost on the rim of an unknown continent into one of the world's great cities. Its recorded past is tied exclusively to the legacy of the colonialism on which it was founded. No lasting vestige survives of the civilization of the Tamoios people, who inhabited the land before the Portuguese arrived. The city's history begins on January 1, 1502, when a Portuguese captain steered his craft into Guanabara Bay. In 1555, the French established a garrison near the Sugar Loaf mountain. The Governor General of Brazil made an unsuccessful attempt to oust them. It was left to his son to defeat them in 1567. The city then acquired its official name, São Sebastião de Rio de Janeiro, after the infant king of Portugal, and Rio began to develop on and around the Morro do Castelo - in front of what is now Santos Dumont airport.
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