Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Arbol del Tule

Environmentalist marries 1,000 year old Cyprus tree in Mexico

Peruvian activist and actor Richard Torres held a marriage ceremony with Mexico's famous 1,000-year-old Arbol del Tule, or Tule Tree, in an Inca ceremony complete with incense, grains and conch shells.

The ritual began Sunday around 11:30 a.m. in the presence of dozens of environmentalists and inhabitants of the Oaxaca town of Santa María del Tule, most of whom had no idea why the man was kissing and "marrying" the tree, a type of cypress whose trunk, at nearly 140 feet around, has the largest diameter in the world.

The wedding was part . . .

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