also from the March 17 "Wall Street Journal"

A Hacienda of Your Own

In a corner of the Yucatán, luxury resorts rise -- but so far, go unnoticed

By JOEL MILLMAN
March 17, 2007

MÉRIDA, Mexico -- When Susan Graham-Bond and her fiancé eloped to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula this year, they spent two weeks traveling between five lavishly restored old estates. At one, they had a private candlelit wedding ceremony in the shell of an old vine-covered chapel. At others, they swam in huge pools within ruins and were greeted every night by flowers strewn in their room.

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