https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/pearls-in-la-paz/ Mexico's English-language news Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:08:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/pearls-in-la-paz/comment-page-1/#comment-12970 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:08:26 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=430242#comment-12970 We have a Pearl Farm here in La Paz – anyone visiting La Paz should take a tour. Wonderful history and one can watch the seeds being implanted into the oyster shell before being returned to the sea to develop.

]]> https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/pearls-in-la-paz/comment-page-1/#comment-12969 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:15:31 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=430242#comment-12969 La Paz in 1992: I was walking down a side street a few blocks off the malecon and passed an open double doorway which turned out to be a meeting hall of former pearl divers. Striking up a conversation with one elderly former pearl diver, I ask him why the pearl industry had died and was surprised at his answer. He told me matter a factly that the Japanese had poisoned the La Paz pearl beds to eliminate competition of Japanese pearls.

]]> https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/pearls-in-la-paz/comment-page-1/#comment-12959 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:12:37 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=430242#comment-12959 Going to miss that old hotel. Loved it the way it was.

]]> https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/pearls-in-la-paz/comment-page-1/#comment-12950 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:34:36 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=430242#comment-12950 Sad to see a charming, relaxing somewhat eccentric hotel filled with touches of local history and culture go this way. The restaurant, open to the street was a great place to have breakfast. The food wasn’t really very good, the waiters were usually a bit snippy, but you couldn’t top the ambiance or the view.

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