Isla de la Pasión
Palm-fringed private island reached by boat across a shallow, mirror-clear lagoon, once a Maya pilgrimage site to the goddess of love.
This guide to Isla de la Pasión off Cozumel opens with a hurricane that flattened whatever once stood on this narrow strip of sand, and traces the island back further still, to Maya pilgrims who called it Mukyaj Peten and crossed its shallow lagoon to leave offerings to Ixchel, goddess of love. It follows how a Mexican businessman rebuilt the wrecked island afterward, not as a resort to sleep in but as a place visitors are ferried to for a single day, and how a small palm-thatched chapel there now hosts weddings. Cross the lagoon slowly; the water stays shallow enough to see your own toes on the sand the whole way.
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