Your articles on Mexico continue to interest...

Your articles on Mexico continue to interest and annoy me because so often there are errors and (what I consider) serious omissions. The Ja. 21 article on Palenque, for example. Claire Robey fails to mention that some of the carvings/drawings have signs saying that the original is in the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. Chan Kah is a delightful hotel with a most unusual open-air dining room. And once inside your cottage with a fall wall (sliding glass) window, one feels as if they had been lowered in their room right into the jungle. I don’t know if she is “damning” the pool, but it is most attractive. And, if memory serves me correctly, there is some unusual caged wildlife on the grounds.

She refers to Villahermosa as a place to get away from as quickly as possible. But the famous La Venta Outdoor Museum is there with its stone heads, steles and altars, all of which were moved because of the necessity of oil drilling.

There is also a very worthwhile museum of the State of Tabasco. And on the Rio Grijalva on which Villahermosa is located is a restaurant ship. Unbeknownst to us until we started eating and realized we were also moving, it takes diners on a short cruise up and down the Rio Grijalva.

Your writer might not enjoy these things, or even know about them (so she should have done more research), but they should have been included. People who travel to Palenque are not the run-of-the-mill tourist--those who go to Acapulco and the like--and I am sure would be interested in La Venta, etc. To learn about these points of interest after one returned home would be very disappointing, to say the least.

MRS. LYNN SPEAR MERLES

Costa Mesa