Chichen Itza Ruins Chichén Itzá

Valladolid is a tiny city by European standards with its 45.000 inhabitants, though it's the third largest in Yucatan. It was also extremely empty and quiet early morning the next day, when we went out to buy something for breakfast. I gotta say that the Mexicans had one brilliant idea - streets naming convention. While in Poland they will debate …

Chaps.

It was during my time on the small isle of Flores - a small spit of land perched atop a lake in the far Northerly wilds of Guatemala - that I reluctantly gave up a precious tome I had finished reading. Perusing the available novels on the 'book exchange' shelf gave me scant hope for my further education regarding Central America. …

Fri 11^th Nov

PAH! Chicken bus my ****. It was a coach – ok not as plush as an ADO, but coach none the less and perfectly fine. It just stops… a lot. It is basically a hail and ride situation where you wander along the highway – see the bus, wave it down and get off a few miles later. It just means for us …

We trundled around for an hour in the dark trying to find a bus termina as the City woke up around us. We grabbed a coffee and smashed it to Chichen Itza (Mayan for ¨Mouth of The Well¨)where we shared the ruins early morning with only a couple of people. Magnificent! I got in trouble for taking a photo of baby monkey with the temple. We returned to …

Having decided to stay a little longer to take full advantage of the complimentary breakfast on offer at Nomadas, I arrived at Chichen Itza at 11 o´clock in the morning with the hopes that it would still be relatively quiet. Boy was I wrong. Turning into the car park, we were greeted by a sea of buses and cars, with all their inhabitants swarming …

Wazzaaaaaaaaaa. Just about to say goodbye to Mexico one more night at Cancun. Sad Times. We have loved this place. Just amazing and will be definitely coming back in the future! Spent 4 nights in a pretty cool hotel at Tulum, where we checked out the famous ruins by the sea, checked out one of the new wonders of the world in Chichen Itza and swam …