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Merida Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Merida, Mexico
Capital of the Yucatan
... 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 ...
The white city and the new world wonder
... fully populated. Palenque was one of the main cities in the region and the trading hub between what is now Yucatan, Northern Mexico and Guatemala. At the end of our visit, the rain came pouring down, but we enjoyed wandering though Palenque without any ...
City in Yucatan
... and lots to shop.Temperatures are easy exceeding the 100s F. So glad we had a hotel with a little pool. No pictures of Merida because we cannot find the camera. Merida hat viel zu bieten und ist auch Ausgangspunkt vieler Rundreisen in Yukatan. Die ...
Fun in the cenotes
Today we drove to the cenotes. A cenote is a sinkhole with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater. It is typically found in the Yucatán Peninsula and some nearby Caribbean islands. The term is derived from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya to ...
Oaxaca, San Cristobal and Merida
... 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 ...
Cenotes and Uxmal
... ... 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 ...
sehr haarig
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 ...
Dia de los muertos
We saw the Maya ruins of the ancient city of Chichen Itza and celebrated the dia de los muertos in ...
SNORKELING IN THE CENOTES
"Whats a Cenote?" asked the kids after being told that we were going to spend the day snorkeling in three of them. Even though they had seen one yesterday at Chichen Itza that one had looked just like a lake. Yucatan peninsula is a ...
Made good time
I was suppose to stop in Meridia to sleep but I was making such good time I just kept ...
After one week of Spanish lessons
... in a 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 ...
Merida
... so friendly 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 ...
Merida
... peu de touristes donc pas de problemes a ce niveau la !! Et bon apres c est 3 jours trepidants a Merida...je vais prendre le bus pour aller a Mexico et habiter chez les amies de Fiamma !!! Enfin je vais rencontrer des mexicains et parler espagnol (sais ...
just the beggining
here is an idea of what my hilarious apartment is like... some rooftop images and my neighbours ...
Trotting along !!!!!
After the threat of being mugged on the night bus we made it safely to Merida and found a right cheap cock roach infested hotel. Its funny looking back over the year and I remember the very first time we had a cock roach in our room and we were both ...
Merida
... to say we have arrived in Merida safe and sound. We had a nine hour bus journey but we did get to see the Gulf of Mexico. We have added photos to the previous entries so please check them out. This afternoon the students were able to have a bit of a ...
Bursting with art and culture
... main plaza, and this time we were offered rooms by the day shift man at the reception who had just arrived. Merida is a lovely colonial city. We happened to arrive on Sunday, a wonderful day in Merida...¨Domingo en Merida¨. The streets in ...
Merida
... a tour you can take to the nearby Mayan sites. They call it the Puuc Route. It takes in several of the lesser known sites in Mexico. If it wasn't for this tour then I wouldn't really stay here. The tour of the Puuc route took in Labna, Sayil, Kabbah ...
In a search of the invisible flamingos
... was there. We saw the old machinery, photos from the past prosperity of the place and had a delicious (obviously.. as everywhere in Mexico) meal at the hacienda restaurant. As you can imagine also - the place was packed with iguanas... We were the only ...
Four Days before Christmas in Merida
... use at any time. Our big room with a patio was on the roof of the Alvarez family´s guest home. The pèople of Merida love music and dancing, so every night all the parks came to life with bands playing music and people dancing polkas and ...
Merida and Taz's Birthday
... male favourite, shopping. But in all honesty, this was definately the most interestingly funny shop of my life, the specialties of Merida are definately an acquired taste to say the least. With a Lucha Libre mask, a Hammock & a bunch of ...
Oxcutzcab
10-4-07 Got taxi cab to Loltun (loltoon) caves, part of the Mayan Puuc (pooc) Route to see relics and heiroglyphics of Mayan ancestors - Rubbish. Went round with a group, the guide only spoke Spanish and there was only the odd plaque with the most ...
Merida
... grr. And I'm glad we passed on Mexico City because of the brutal rain. And here's a piece of info I didn't know before... Mexico City is supposedly the biggest city in the world, with something like 33 million or so. We were only going to stay in ...
Arrive in Mexico
Arrived in Mexico for some decent food and cheap living, after 6 weeks in communist Cuba. Although we enjoyed it, it was very difficult to buy or do anything. The state had too much control. Perhaps this is the model that Blair has been studying? We had ...
A poor excuse for a man
... '10 point plan' for getting nice and brown in Mexico, and one that I put into use during both days at the hostel in Merida: 1) Apply the suncream everywhere, which takes ages, but is necessary because of the strength of the sun. 2) Sit in the sun for ...