Merida, Mexico Travel Blogs

Rainy days in Merida
Oct 5, 2006 (9 photos)

Our first morning in Merida held a couple of firsts for Matt: doing laundry by hand and cutting hair, mine specifically. Between the salt water, heat, and infrequent showers, my long hair didn´t last a week down here. At just above my shoulders (the same ...

Back to solo travel...
Jan 26, 2007 (27 photos)

... world dance, music and theatre continue at venues all around the city, the beautiful, colonial Teatro Peon Contrareas Merida's cultural centrepiece.  Colonial architecture dominates the streetscape, both in the historic centre and along the Paseo de ...

A major part of what i want to do in mexico ...
Dec 31, 2002 (3 photos)

... the square and major shopping district and some chatting with the others in the hostel. Ran into another 3 Australian´s there! Merida has a different event going on everyday with dancing, singing and cultural events around the city. We went to a night ...

Hasta la Vista, Merida
Dec 10, 2008

And so the journey home begins. Bye bye Merida. What a beautiful town and a beautiful country. I hope that I will be back one day soon. Hasta la Vista, Merida.

Merida
Sep 24, 2007 (6 photos)

Very friendly people, great colonial center (from st. 64-57 and 56-63) but still it remains a big city with its big american chains of hotel, restaurants and other businesses.  Outside the colonial center though, is not really interesting and ...

Home of the Hammocks
Jul 30, 2006 (38 photos)

... Flores in Guatemala two days ago at 6am. My original plan was to spend a day in San Ignacio in Belize then head up to Merida, this soon changed. I´d been feeling a little under the weather so I decided in the morning to try and get a bus straight through to ...

Yucatan
Nov 15, 2001

... endless horizon of beaches and palm trees. Even Juliette agreed with me this looked like paradise. Upon arriving in Merida, which was more dirty than Mexico, we checked in a small hotel. Great price and close to the central square. I tried to have some ...

Merida
Dec 29, 2008 (2 photos)

... Palenque to Merida, known as the White City.Capital of the prosperous Yucatan, its a different world from Chiapas, one of Mexico's poorest states. Its central square is dominated by one of Mexico's oldest Cathedrals, which was built from the white stone ...

Chitchen Itza
Oct 17, 2006 (7 photos)

Thank god we wre away from Cancun. Today we bussed to Chitzen Itza, one of the most well known Central American Ruins. Our guide Julian or Lalo in his language was awesome. He really painted a picture and was thorough with all his explanations. These ...

Mexican dance routines
Sep 20, 2008

Arrived in Merida none the wiser from the Valladolid experience and decided once more to trek for hours finding a hotel. This feat, once we were installed in somewhere affordable, led us to convince ourselves that sightseeing should be abandoned and the ...

Merida
Apr 29, 2005

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Merida and the Chithen Itza Ruins
Feb 27, 2008 (18 photos)

Chitchen Itza Ruins are supposedly one fo the most vistited sites in Mexico. Must be because of the proximity to Cancun. Monte Alban in my opinion is better. Look at Jim in the Panama hat and typical white shirt. Nice-

Blissful Belize and Magical Mexico
Oct 29, 2007 (11 photos)

... said to have some of the best diving in the world. Next time! We didn't stop long in Chutamel, Mexico, just long enough to catch an overnight bus to Merida. An Executivo not another chicken bus! As we hadn't booked a hotel we took a chance on one on a ...

Merida
Jul 7, 2007 (15 photos)

Been here for two days, hostel is nice,although i´m in a room by the road, the city is a lovely relaxed colonial town, not big enough to deserve the tour bus & too hot for it. The antropology museam is nice and good english descriptions of the mayans! ...

Day 1: Sun, meet two white girls
Jun 15, 2009 (3 photos)

... water diety that used his mouth as the door. After all of that ruin hopping, we made it to the interent cafe back in Merida. We are now both hot, exhausted, and significantly more tan. Tomorrow, we adventure to some cool caves. Fortunatly, the bus doesn´t ...

Moving up!
Nov 30, 2008 (8 photos)

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The land that height forgot.
Nov 3, 2008 (19 photos)

... pick up some extras for your next rubbish movie. Welcome one and all to the land that height forgot...... Merida, is a great place. Beautifully coloured two storey buildings all squashed together in small blocks situated just feet from the cobbled ...

Chicen itza
Aug 28, 2006 (15 photos)

Pour ce site par contre j ai pas pu eviter le reveil matinal : 5h30.. c est incroyable ce que la haine de la chaleur, de l humidite et de la transpiration me rendent capable de faire !!! Enfin bon arrivee sur le site vers 8h00. Arrivee en meme tant que ...

Paddy´s day in Merida Mexico
Mar 17, 2009 (5 photos)

Had one of the best Paddy´s days ever!!! Got up early in the morning and went to Ceynotes - these are underground freshwter limestone caves. To get there we went on local bus then bicycles that 2 people sit on the front and then a little cart thing on ...

Capital of the Yucatan
Jun 26, 2006 (15 photos)

... on the weekends. You should all come to Mexico. a city in the Yucatan, not Juarez :-)I have definately seen that lower Mexico is nothing like the border towns and Mexicans are WAY different from Mexican Americans. Do not judge the entire country on some ...

Oaxaca, San Cristobal and Merida
Mar 1, 2009 (58 photos)

... agreat day and would recommend that tour from Nomads Hostel to everyone who visits Merida. Friday was our last day in Merida and indeed Mexico. We started the day with a walking tour of the city which was excellent and after lunch went to the airport ...

Cenotes and Uxmal
Nov 18, 2006 (18 photos)

... Spanish, French, German, and even a touch of Greek. One of the guys from the hostel is from Oaxaca (the one place in Mexico I really wanted to go but was advised by the Canadian consulate to not go there due to riots). Anyway, he was awesome! He wanted ...

sehr haarig
Sep 24, 2007

wir kommen einigermassen ausgeschlafen in merida an, allerdings ist es halb sieben uhr morgens. wir nehmen uns ein taxi zum groessten platz der stadt und suchen uns ein hostel. finden auch gleich eines, die haben aber noch kein fertiges zimmer. also ...

Return to Merida, and time for some trumpets
Dec 9, 2008

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Hammocks and the fallen Madonna
Dec 10, 2008

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Merida
May 5, 2008 (1 photos)

... our trip and were really pleased to find that we were staying on the main square of the city on a Sunday. Every weekend in Merida the city provides free music in the main square and all the locals hang out in the square and there are markets. We really ...

Merida
Sep 27, 2008 (4 photos)

... and helpful and had the best mole and a huge pizza. We took a doggy bag! There was a festival "Corazon de Merida", with traditional music, food and handcraft stands, where all the locals gathered and socialised. Two Coronas (1.5 euro, eat your heart out ...

Dia de los muertos
Nov 2, 2008

We saw the Maya ruins of the ancient city of Chichen Itza and celebrated the dia de los muertos in Merida.

Made good time
Apr 22, 2009

I was suppose to stop in Meridia to sleep but I was making such good time I just kept going.

After one week of Spanish lessons
Jul 6, 2008

... classroom, but we do something else like make Mexican food or visit a local site. We visited a Mayan ruin just outside of Merida called Dzibilchaltun and afterwards went swimming in a cenote...which is kind of a pool but this seemed to have a lot of fish ...